Flooding in 2021 has highlighted the increased risk to national resilience.This is against a backdrop of the UK climate projected to become more extreme over the next Blanket few decades.This paper considers the notable river and surface water flood events within England and Wales during 2021 and examines the performance of the Flood Forecasting Ce
BackgroundRegional citrate anticoagulation has been associated with enhanced biocompatibility in hemodialysis, but the optimal dose of citrate remains to be established.Here, we compared parameters related to cellular activation during in vitro dialysis, using two doses of citrate.MethodsHuman whole blood, anticoagulated with either 3 mM or 4 mM of
Sean M Gratton, Byron L LamBascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USAAbstract: Visual loss due to optic neuropathy is a rare manifestation of thiamine deficiency.We report a case of a 39-year-old woman with a body Service Window Hardware mass index (BMI) of 29 kg/m2 who developed visual loss and bila
ABSTRACT Objective: To assess factors associated with depression among higher education students and professionals during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.Method: quantitative study Travel Scooters with a cross-sectional design.550 students and professionals participated.The data were collected by means of a digital questionnaire that included Pat
In this paper, we propose a new distance metric for the K-means clustering algorithm.Applying this metric in clustering a dataset, forms unequal clusters.This metric leads to a larger size for a cluster with a centroid away from the origin, rather than a cluster closer to the origin.The proposed metric is based on the Canberra distances and it is u