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Erna von Heimburg Jon Ingulf Medbø Mariann Sandsund Randi Eidsmo Reinertsen 《International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics》2013,19(2):227-243
Aim. Firefighters must meet minimum physical demands. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (NLIA) has approved a standardised treadmill walking test and 3 simple strength tests for smoke divers. The results of the Trondheim test were compared with those of the NLIA tests taking into account possible effects of age, experience level and gender. Methods. Four groups of participants took part in the tests: 19 young experienced firefighters, 24 senior male firefighters and inexperienced applicants, 12 male and 8 female. Results. Oxygen uptake (VO2) at exhaustion rose linearly by the duration of the treadmill test. Time spent on the Trondheim test was closely related to performance time and peak VO2 on the treadmill test. Senior experienced firefighters did not perform better than equally fit young applicants. However, female applicants performed poorer on the Trondheim test than on the treadmill test. Performance on the Trondheim test was not closely related to muscle strength beyond a minimum. Conclusion. Firefighters completing the Trondheim test in under 19 min fit the requirements of the NLIA treadmill test. The Trondheim test can be used as an alternative to the NLIA tests for testing aerobic fitness but not for muscular strength. Women’s result of the Trondheim test were poorer than the results of the NLIA treadmill test, probably because of their lower body mass. 相似文献
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Data on chromosomal mosaicism was collected retrospectively on 12 386 amniotic fluid samples cultured over a 10 year period in 14 Canadian centres. Level I mosaicism (a single abnormal cell—excluding single cell monosomy) was encountered in 863 cases (7.1 per cent). Level II mosaicism (multiple cells with the same abnormality in a single flask or colony) was encountered in 138 cases (1.1 per cent). Level III mosaicism (multiple cells distributed over multiple flasks or colonies) was encountered in 34 cases (0.3 per cent). Analysis of the details of these cases allowed five major conclusions to be drawn: (1) Single cell abnormalities should not be taken as an indication of true fetal mosaicism. Only rarely will this interpretation prove to be incorrect. (2) Mosaicism involving multiple cells confined to a single flask should not be regarded as an indication of true fetal mosaicism. Only occasionally will this interpretation prove to be incorrect. (3) Mosaicism involving multiple cells distributed over more than one flask should be regarded as a strong indication of true fetal mosaicism. Sixty per cent will be confirmed by karyotype analysis of the fetus or infant. (4) Mosaicism of the XX/XY type is usually due to maternal cell contamination. Occasionally it can be a female fetus with XY cells from an unknown source. (5) The in situ or colony method of chromosome analysis has no clear advantage over the flask method for either the detection of true fetal mosaicism or for the ability to distinguish true mosaics from false positives. 相似文献
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G. De Marchi B. Canepa F. Braggio G. Randi 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》1991,19(1-3):539-547
Pollution monitoring can provide an important aid in the choice of the strategy to control the level of some dangerous elements, whether in water or in the air. The difficulties of detecting polluting sources from experimental data are related not only to the adoption of systematic and suitable measuring procedure, but also to a correct management of the available information. From the theoretical point of view, the use of simplified models, coupled with classical regularization techniques, shows that, in general, the problem is badly posed and consequently, numerically ill-conditioned. Hence the possibility of using expert systems algorithms, introducing further qualitative information, improves the reliability of the solutions. In particular, this paper deals with the utilization of fuzzy optimization algorithms: fuzzy theory supplies a formal reasoning technique, which proposes solutions that are real consequences of the premises.An actual example of such a method is described, making reference to the computation of the distribution of polluting sources from ground concentration data. The inverse problem is first solved using traditional procedures, showing that the distributed sources are not recognized. Afterwards, different results obtained from various algorithms derived from the assumed a-priori knowledge are examined. In this case, it is possible to obtain a more realistic situation of the pollution sources, inside the boundaries of the controlled area. 相似文献
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Barros Ivaldete Tijolin Ceccon Juliana Parolin Glinski Andressa Liebel Samuel Grötzner Sonia Regina Randi Marco Antonio Ferreira Benedito Evanilde Ortolani-Machado Claudia Feijó Filipak Neto Francisco de Oliveira Ribeiro Ciro Alberto 《Environmental science and pollution research international》2017,24(19):16228-16240
Environmental Science and Pollution Research - In the current study, water quality of five river sites in Parana River basin (Brazil), utilized for public water supply, was assessed through a set... 相似文献
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Katsumiti A Domingos FX Azevedo M da Silva MD Damian RC Almeida MI de Assis HC Cestari MM Randi MA Ribeiro CA Freire CA 《Environmental monitoring and assessment》2009,152(1-4):209-222
The Vicuña oil tanker exploded in Paranaguá Bay (South of Brazil), during methanol unloading operations in front of Paranaguá Harbour, on November 15th, 2004, releasing a large amount of bunker oil and methanol. Two weeks after the accident, the acute effects of the Vicuña Oil Spill (VOS) were evaluated in the demersal catfish Cathorops spixii, comparing a contaminated (at the spill site) and a reference site inside the Bay. Data were compared to previous measurements, taken before the accident, in the same species, from the same sites. The physiological biomarkers were the ones that best reflected acute effects of the spill: plasma osmolality, chloride, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Morphological (liver and gill histopathology) and genetic (piscine micronucleus and DNA strand breaks) biomarkers revealed that damage was already present in fishes from both reference and contaminated sites inside the Bay. Thus, the reference site is not devoid of contamination, as water circulation tends to spread the contaminants released into other areas of the Bay. Acute field surveys of oil spill effects in harbour areas with a long history of contamination should thus be viewed with caution, and whenever possible previous evaluations should be considered for proper appraisal of biomarker sensitivity, especially in mobile bioindicators such as fish. 相似文献
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Eric D. Crandall Rachel H. Toczydlowski Libby Liggins Ann E. Holmes Maryam Ghoojaei Michelle R. Gaither Briana E. Wham Andrea L. Pritt Cory Noble Tanner J. Anderson Randi L. Barton Justin T. Berg Sofia G. Beskid Alonso Delgado Emily Farrell Nan Himmelsbach Samantha R. Queeno Thienthanh Trinh Courtney Weyand Andrew Bentley John Deck Cynthia Riginos Gideon S. Bradburd Robert J. Toonen 《Conservation biology》2023,37(4):e14061
Genetic diversity within species represents a fundamental yet underappreciated level of biodiversity. Because genetic diversity can indicate species resilience to changing climate, its measurement is relevant to many national and global conservation policy targets. Many studies produce large amounts of genome-scale genetic diversity data for wild populations, but most (87%) do not include the associated spatial and temporal metadata necessary for them to be reused in monitoring programs or for acknowledging the sovereignty of nations or Indigenous peoples. We undertook a distributed datathon to quantify the availability of these missing metadata and to test the hypothesis that their availability decays with time. We also worked to remediate missing metadata by extracting them from associated published papers, online repositories, and direct communication with authors. Starting with 848 candidate genomic data sets (reduced representation and whole genome) from the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, we determined that 561 contained mostly samples from wild populations. We successfully restored spatiotemporal metadata for 78% of these 561 data sets (n = 440 data sets with data on 45,105 individuals from 762 species in 17 phyla). Examining papers and online repositories was much more fruitful than contacting 351 authors, who replied to our email requests 45% of the time. Overall, 23% of our email queries to authors unearthed useful metadata. The probability of retrieving spatiotemporal metadata declined significantly as age of the data set increased. There was a 13.5% yearly decrease in metadata associated with published papers or online repositories and up to a 22% yearly decrease in metadata that were only available from authors. This rapid decay in metadata availability, mirrored in studies of other types of biological data, should motivate swift updates to data-sharing policies and researcher practices to ensure that the valuable context provided by metadata is not lost to conservation science forever. 相似文献
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The perinatal outcome of 26 patients with confined placental mosaicism (CPM) detected in chorionic villus sampling (CVS) who wished to continue their pregnancies was compared with that of two controls per patient matched for age and parity (n=52). There were no significant differences in birth weight or gestational age at delivery between patients with CPM and controls. There were no cases of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in the CPM patients as compared with two (2/52, 3·8 per cent) in the control group (P>0·05). There was no significant increase in fetal loss between the study group (1/26, 3·6 per cent) and the controls (1/52, 1·9 per cent) (P>0·05). 相似文献
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Although the fitness consequences of herbivory on terrestrial plants have been extensively studied, considerably less is known
about how partial predation impacts the fitness of clonal marine organisms. The trophic role of Caribbean parrotfish on coral
reefs is complex: while these fish are important herbivores, as corallivores (consumers of live coral tissue), they selectively
graze specific species and colonies of reef-building corals. Though the benefits of parrotfish herbivory for reef resilience
and conservation are well documented, the negative consequences of parrotfish grazing for coral reproductive fitness have
not been previously determined. We examined recently grazed colonies of Montastraea annularis corals to determine whether grazing was positively associated with coral reproductive effort. We measured gonad number, egg
number and size, and proportional reproductive allocation for grazed and intact coral colonies 2–5 days prior to their annual
spawning time. We found that parrotfish selectively grazed coral polyps with high total reproductive effort (number of gonads),
providing the first evidence that parrotfish selectively target specific tissue areas within a single coral colony. The removal
of polyps with high reproductive effort has direct adverse affects on coral fitness, with additional indirect implications
for colony growth and survival. We conclude that chronic grazing by parrotfishes has negative fitness consequences for reef-building
corals, and by extension, reef ecosystems. 相似文献