Val Ferret Pilot Action Region Grandes Jorasses Glaciers: An Open-Air Laboratory for the Development of Close-Range Remote Sensing Monitoring Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Perret ◽  
Jean Pierre Fosson ◽  
Luca Mondardini ◽  
Valerio Segor
Keyword(s):  
Surface Deformation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Alluvial Channels ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Close Range

The Val Ferret valley (Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy) was included as a Pilot Action Region (PAR) of the GreenRisk4Alps project since it is both a famous tourist location and a high-risk area for all types of mass movement processes. Typical natural hazards that endanger this PAR are debris flows and avalanches, sometimes connected to ice collapses from the glaciers of the Mont Blanc massif. Thanks to the steep sides of the valley and widespread alluvial channels, these events can reach the valley floor, where public roads, villages and touristic attractions are located. This article presents the main challenges of natural hazard management in the Val Ferret PAR, as well as the role of forestry and protective forests in the Aosta Valley Autonomous Region. As an example of good practice, the monitoring systems of the Planpincieux and Grandes Jorasses glaciers are presented. Recently, these glaciers have become an open-air laboratory for glacial monitoring techniques. Many close-range surveys have been conducted here, and a permanent network of monitoring systems that measure the surface deformation of the glaciers is currently active.

scholarly journals Dynamic Role of Renewable Eenrgy to Strengthen Energy Security and Energy Poverty Reduction: Mediating Role of Low Carbon Finance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinh van Tien ◽  
Thai Van Ha ◽  
Tran Duc Thuan ◽  
Thai Thi Kim Oanh ◽  
Nguyen Phan Thu Hang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Security ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
Energy Poverty ◽  
High Risk Area

Abstract This paper provides an empirical analysis of deploying renewables in Africa's five most populous countries for 2001-2019. It analyzed these factors to see how they impact deploying renewables by employing panel data using the pooled ordinary least squared(OLS) at frim level analysis to increase energy security and to reduce energy poverty. After the analysis, we proved that access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking needs the study countries to deploy renewables as most Africans cook with polluting fuels having detrimental health implications. The analyses further revealed that these countries generate a chunk of their electricity from fossil fuel sources, making it imperative to jettison fossil fuels and embrace renewables cheaper and environmentally friendly. The analysis also showed that the Quality of regulation in a country is vitally important to scaling up renewables in the study countries since the right policy tools underpin the transition. Furthermore, the lack of Electrification is important to developing renewal energy sources in the study countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has about nearly 600 million people not having access to electricity. Thus deploying renewables will bridge the access gap. Cleaner energies will be the panacea to the study countries’ energy insecurity situation and bridge the access gap. The study countries have the technical and theoretical potential for all the renewable energies needed to ensure sustainable consumption. What is needed is to institute cornerstone financial policy de-risking instruments to crowd in private capital since the renewables sector is perceived as a high-risk area.

Role of Shamanaushadhi in Typhoid Fever – An Observational Clinical Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurabh Parauha ◽  
M. A. Hullur ◽  
Prashanth. A. S.
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Study ◽  
Typhoid Fever ◽  
Blood Stream ◽  
Salmonella Typhi ◽  
Acute Illness ◽  
Widal Test ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area

Typhoid fever is an acute illness associated with fever that is most often caused by the Salmonella typhi bacteria. Once the bacteria is ingested it quickly multiplies within the stomach, liver or gall bladder and finally enters the blood stream causing symptoms like fever, headache etc. these cases as of 2010 caused about 190000 deaths up from 137000 in 1990 in whole world, India, Pakistan and Egypt are also known high risk area for developing this disease. A clinical study comprising of 15 patients of either sex attending OPD clinic of AMVH Hubli and presenting with clinical manifestation of Typhoid confirmed by Widal test were selected for observational study. All the patients received Sanjivani Vati 2 tab. bid with Kiratadisapta Kashaya (20 ml) twice daily after food. It was given for 21 days and follow up period was of 1 month with weekly visit. From the result obtained we can conclude that therapy with this Ayurvedic combination of drugs shown significant relief (p less than 0.001) in symptoms after 21 days of treatment.

Risk factors for cholangiocarcinoma in high-risk area of Thailand: Role of lifestyle, diet and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. e89-e94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nopparat Songserm ◽  
Supannee Promthet ◽  
Paiboon Sithithaworn ◽  
Chamsai Pientong ◽  
Tipaya Ekalaksananan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area

scholarly journals Drug use in the spread and forming of epidemic of hiv infection

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
O. E. Simakina ◽  
N. A. Belyakov ◽  
V. V. Rassokhin ◽  
N. B. Khalezova
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Drug Addicts ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area

The paper reviews issues of drug use in the spread of HIV infection through sexual and injection routes, interaction of drug addicts with the general population, the main psychoactive substances used by drug addicts, the practices that contribute to the transmission of HIV from a drug addict to a healthy person, the representation of drug addicts in risk groups, the course of infections among injecting drug users (IDUs), treatment of drug use and infections in IDUs. The role of drug addiction in maintaining the HIV epidemic is shown. It is observed that people involved in seafaring are in high-risk area by drug addiction as well as by spread of HIV infection. Marine regions are among the most affected.

Predictors of survival in oesophageal cancer patients in a high-risk area in Northern Iran: the role of health services utilisation

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. e12549 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Golalipour ◽  
S. Semnani ◽  
B. Safaie ◽  
S. Rajaie ◽  
S.M. Sedaghat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Oesophageal Cancer ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
Northern Iran ◽  
High Risk Area

scholarly journals TP53mutation pattern of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas in a high risk area (Southern Brazil): Role of life style factors

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arno Pütz ◽  
Antonio A. Hartmann ◽  
Paulo R.O. Fontes ◽  
Claudio O.P. Alexandre ◽  
Daniela A. Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Squamous Cell ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Squamous Cell Carcinomas ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area ◽  
Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinomas

Role of epoxide hydrolase 1 gene polymorphisms in esophageal cancer in a high-risk area in India

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 1456-1462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakhshan Ihsan ◽  
Indranil Chattopadhyay ◽  
Rupkumar Phukan ◽  
Ashwani K Mishra ◽  
Joydeep Purkayastha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Esophageal Cancer ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Gene Polymorphisms ◽  
Epoxide Hydrolase ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area

Periodic monitoring of vampire bats and rabies: a new framework for animal restoration projects in the Neotropics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Gonçalves ◽  
Daniel G. Streicker ◽  
Mauro Galetti
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
Food Web Structure ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
High Risk Area ◽  
Restoration Project ◽  
Vampire Bats

Nowadays, restoration project might lead to increased public engagement and enthusiasm for biodiversity and is receiving increased media attention in major newspapers, TED talks and the scientific literature. However, empirical research on restoration project is rare, fragmented, and geographically biased and long-term studies that monitor indirect and unexpected effects are needed to support future management decisions especially in the Neotropical area. Changes in animal population dynamics and community composition following species (re)introduction may have unanticipated consequences for a variety of downstream ecosystem processes, including food web structure, predator-prey systems and infectious disease transmission. Recently, an unprecedented study in Brazil showed changes in vampire bat feeding following a rewilding project and further transformed the land-bridge island into a high-risk area for rabies transmission. Due the lessons learned from ongoing project, we present a novel approach on how to anticipate, monitor, and mitigate the vampire bats and rabies in rewilding projects. We pinpoint a series of precautions and the need for long-term monitoring of vampire bats and rabies responses to rewilding projects and highlighted the importance of multidisciplinary teams of scientist and managers focusing on prevention educational program of rabies risk transmitted by bats. In addition, monitoring the relative abundance of vampire bats, considering reproductive control by sterilization and oral vaccines that autonomously transfer among bats would reduce the probability, size and duration of rabies outbreaks. The rewilding assessment framework presented here responds to calls to better integrate the science and practice of rewilding and also could be used for long-term studying of bat-transmitted pathogen in the Neotropical area as the region is considered a geographic hotspots of “missing bat zoonoses”.

74 Improving Handover Between Doctors and Nurses on An Elderly Care Ward

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i12-i42
Author(s):  
K Suseeharan ◽  
T Vedutla
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Risk Area ◽  
High Risk Area ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Care Ward ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

Abstract Background The Royal College of Physician guidelines (2011) identified handover as a “high risk step” in patient care, especially in recent times within the NHS where shift patterns lead to more disjointed care with a high reliance on effective handover by all staff members. Introduction At Cannock Chase hospital, Fairoak ward is an elderly care rehabilitation ward where there is a large multi-disciplinary team. While working on the ward as doctors we noticed that handover between the MDT was poor. Anecdotal evidence from both doctors and nurses felt that this was a high risk area in need of improvement. Aim to improve handover between doctors and nurses on this elderly care ward. Method To measure the quality of current handover practice we did a questionnaire. A total of 12 questionnaires were completed which showed that 92% of staff felt that handover on the ward was very poor and 50% preferred both written and verbal handover. We measured the number of tasks verbally handed over between doctors and nurses over 3 days. On average 65% of the tasks were completed. We then made the below interventions and re-audited to see if there was any improvement. Interventions over 3 week period: Results Questionnaire: Measuring task completion after interventions; Conclusion This project has made a positive change qualitatively and quantitatively to the ward handover practice. Staff satisfaction regarding handover has improved and the number of “handed over” tasks completed daily has significantly improved. The written handover sheet had poor utilisation by staff but in 4 months we are going to re-audit and trial the handover sheet again to further improve service delivery. We hope this improvement will have a positive impact on patient care on this elderly care ward.

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