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Primary surgical repair of tetralogy of fallot at the Uganda Heart Institute: a ten-year review of 30day mortality and morbidity

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Background Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) worldwide. It accounts for 7% of CHD cases in Uganda and leads to fatal outcomes in the long term without surgery.
Rebecca Esther Khainza, Michael Oketcho, Twalib Aliku, Judith Namuyonga, Emma Ndagire, Tom Mwambu, Rwakaryebe Mbagga Muhoozi, Bernard Obongnyinge, Hilda Tumwebaze, Nestor Mbabazi, Teddy Akech, Aisha Nakato, Angelline Killen, Geoffrey Oburu Ofumbi, Peter Lwabi, John Omagino, Sulaiman Lubega   +16 more
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Impacts, strategies and tools to mitigate UHI

Architecture and the Built Environment, 2018
The impacts of climate changes to cities, which are home to over half of the world´s population, are already being felt. In many cases, the intensive speed with which urban centres have been growing means that little attention has been paid to the role played by climatic factors in maintaining the quality of life.
Leal Filho, Walter, Echevarria Icaza, Leyre, Omenche, Victoria, Al-Amin, Abul Quasem   +3 more
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Using participatory scenario planning to explore the synergies and trade‐offs from upland treescape expansion

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter, Susan Baker, Euan Bowditch, Sheena Carlisle, Natasha Constant, Alix Syder, Tom Finch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simultaneous assessment of the summer urban heat island in Moscow megacity based on in situ observations, thermal satellite images and mesoscale modeling

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2019
This study compares three popular approaches to quantify the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Moscow megacity in a summer season (June-August 2015).
Mikhail I. Varentsov, Mikhail Y. Grishchenko, Hendrik Wouters   +2 more
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Comfort in the canopy: How urban treescapes affect human thermal comfort in a temperate climate

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract People living in urban centres are exposed to higher levels of heat stress than those living outside of these areas; this is intensified by the urban heat island effect. Heat stress is a concern for the more vulnerable members of society and can exacerbate many medical conditions; excessive heat increases morbidity and mortality rates.
James Parker, Catherine E. Scott, James B. McQuaid, Thomas J. Sloan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Combinatorial auslander-reiten quivers and reduced expressions

, 2019
In this paper, we introduce the notion of combinatorial Auslander-Reiten (AR) quivers for commutation classes [(w) over tilde] of w in a finite Weyl group. This combinatorial object is the Hasse diagram of the convex partial order (sic)([(w) over tilde])
Oh, Se-Jin, Suh, Uhi Rinn
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Mixing, Water Transformation, and Melting Close to a Tidewater Glacier

Geophysical Research Letters
Marine‐terminating glacier fjords play a central role in the transport of oceanic heat toward ice sheets, regulating their melt. Mixing processes near glacial termini are key to this circulation but remain poorly understood.
Mark E. Inall, Arild Sundfjord, Finlo Cottier, Marie‐Louise Korte, Donald A. Slater, Emily J. Venables, James Coogan   +6 more
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Risk Assessment of Harmful Algal Blooms in Salmon Farming: Scotland as a Case Study

Toxins
This study explored harmful algal bloom (HAB) risk as a function of exposure, hazard and vulnerability, using Scotland as a case study. Exposure was defined as the fish biomass estimated to be lost from a bloom event, based on the total recorded annual ...
Fatima Gianella, Michael T. Burrows, Keith Davidson   +2 more
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Impact of fragmented urbanization on observed precipitation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
This study investigates the impact of fragmented urban landscapes on downwind precipitation by applying an innovative observation‐centered approach to an extensive rain gauge network in Belgium. The approach classifies the observations based on the upwind urban land cover fraction, and compares precipitation indices between rural‐ and urban‐labeled ...
Amber Jacobs, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Steven Caluwaerts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting future UK nighttime urban heat islands using observed short-term variability and regional climate projections

Environmental Research Letters, 2023
By 2050, 68% of the world’s population and 90% of the UK’s population are estimated to be living in urban areas. It is widely acknowledged that urban areas tend to be warmer than rural areas (the urban heat island (UHI) effect), and that increased summer
Charlotte Doger de Speville, William J M Seviour, Y T Eunice Lo   +2 more
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