Voice care knowledge, attitude and behavior

Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2009."A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2009."Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-26).published_or_final_versionSpeech and Hearing SciencesBachelorBachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Science

Diversidad y morfometría de tardígrados de una ciudad mediana de la región Neotropical: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina)

Tardigrade diversity was studied in a medium–sized city in the Neotropical Region: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). Samples were collected between February 1999 and January 2000 from lichens and mosses growing on sidewalk trees of the urban and periurban area. Five species of tardigrades were found, i.e., Echiniscus rufoviridis du Bois–Reymond Marcus, 1944, Macrobiotus areolatus Murray, 1907, Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri (Doyère, 1840), Milnesium cf. tardigradum and a non–described species of Macrobiotus. Only one species, M. cf. tardigradum, was found in areas with high levels of vehicle traffic. Results are compared with those from cities in the Nearctic and Palearctic regions. Measurements and pt index values (percentage ratios between the length of the structure considered and the buccal tube length) are provided for M. areolatus, R. oberhaeuseri and M. cf. tardigradum. Amongst the characters considered, the pt index for the stylet support insertion shows the least intraspecific variation. This character is also independent from body length and buccal–tube length. Key words: Tardigrades, Neotropical fauna, Urban environment, Biotic homogenization, Morphometric analysis, Medium–size cities.Se estudió la diversidad de tardígrados en una ciudad mediana de la Región Neotropical: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). Las muestras se recolectaron entre febrero de 1999 y enero de 2000 de líquenes y musgos que crecían sobre árboles de vereda de áreas urbanas y periurbanas. Se encontraron cinco especies de tardígrados: Echiniscus rufoviridis du Bois–Reymond Marcus, 1944, Macrobiotus areolatus Murray, 1907, Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri (Doyère, 1840), Milnesium cf. tardigradum y una especie no descrita de Macrobiotus. M. cf. tardigradum fue la única especie encontrada en áreas con alto tránsito vehicular. Los resultados se comparan con los de ciudades de las Regiones Neártica y Paleártica. Se brindan medidas y valores del índice pt (relación porcentual entre la longitud de la estructura considerada y la longitud del tubo bucal) para M. areolatus, R. oberhaeuseri y M. cf. tardigradum. Entre los caracteres considerados, el índice pt correspondiente a la inserción del soporte de los estiletes es el que muestra la menor variabilidad intraespecífica. Además, este carácter es independiente del largo total del cuerpo y del largo del tubo bucal. Palabras clave: Tardígrados, Fauna neotropical, Ambiente urbano, Homogenización biótica, Análisis morfométrico, Ciudades medianas

Species diversity and morphometrics of tardigrades from a medium-size city in the Neotropical Region: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina)

Tardigrade diversity was studied in a medium-sized city in the Neotropical Region: Santa Rosa (La Pampa, Argentina). Samples were collected between February 1999 and January 2000 from lichens and mosses growing on sidewalk trees of the urban and periurban area. Five species of tardigrades were found, i.e., Echiniscus rufoviridis du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944, Macrobiotus areolatus Murray, 1907, Ramazzottius oberhaeuseri (Doyère, 1840), Milnesium cf. tardigradum and a non-described species of Macrobiotus. Only one species, M. cf. tardigradum, was found in areas with high levels of vehicle traffic. Results are compared with those from cities in the Nearctic and Palearctic regions. Measurements and pt index values (percentage ratios between the length of the structure considered and the buccal tube length) are provided for M. areolatus, R. oberhaeuseri and M. cf. tardigradum. Amongst the characters considered, the pt index for the stylet support insertion shows the least intraspecific variation. This character is also independent from body length and buccal-tube length

Digital information services: a boon for the present and future generations

Any document that is not collected and preserved is likely to be lost, unavailable both now and future. Digitization is a viable solution to make it eternal; to maintain the digital collections and provide access digital libraries became essential in the contemporary information society. In a digital environment university libraries have a new role to fill. To fulfill the mission of the library it has to provide the traditional reference services, retrieval and dissemination of information and at the same time it has to stretch its services to information search services, to organize the information resources for easy access, to filter qualitative information from the vast ocean of World Wide Web, to facilitate translation services to resolve both linguistic and format incompatibilities and also to take up publishing service in which libraries also aggregate information, add value to information products, and create new information. Another traditional library activity that will surely expand in University Digital Libraries is the collection and creation of reviews or annotations for information resources

Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia: A Long Term Strategy

Infrastructure development means for the making of living environment, transport and communications, disaster prevention and national land conservation, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and energy production and supply. Transport infrastructure development in Cambodia involved with (1) road, (2) railway, (3) port, inland-water way and (4) aviation.All model of transport infrastructure have special different kinds of importance. Railway is different from other base important of railways are transport passengers and traffic freight especially transport for heavy goods in huge capacity and in long distance by safer and faster. Transport in Cambodia for traffic freight export import base from Thailand and other via Sisophon and Shihanoukvill port. Traffic is increasing rapidly during nowadays railway condition in adequate of demand required. This is why Railway is selected as the topic of this paper to prevent monopoly of road transport.This paper, does review about infrastructure development plan for Railway in Cambodia as a long term strategy by review and analysis forecast on the previous performance of Royal Railways of Cambodia (RRC) transport traffic involved with condition of infrastructure development of railway in Cambodia. And also review the plan of development RRC but just only detail a plan of rehabilitation that is immediately needed. Suggest some recommendation at the last part. As Cambodia is a member country of ASEAN and also Mekong sub-region. For make sure that transport networks work effectively with a progress of economic integration, we make clear what is important for infrastructure development of railway in Cambodia from the standpoint of the development plan of Mekong sub-region.This paper is organized by 4 sections. Section 1 review about Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia (IDRC) Historical Background, Follow by Section 2 will review the Current Situation of IDRC and some analysis of transport performance from previous years, Then Section 3 review of the focusing on traffic transport of RRC in the future, Section 4 review Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia Future plans in long term; at last conclusion and recommendation.In section 1 does review history background of RRC from the rail first begun. But why is needed to review? Because of history background is involved infrastructure development of RRC in present time. History background made big gaps constraint and obstacle for socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, also left Cambodia with tragedy and left developed behind. After that remain infrastructure development needs huge fund and long time for restoration, reconstruction, rehabilitation and development into new technology as most of world practice

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Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia: A Long Term Strategy

Infrastructure development means for the making of living environment, transport and communications, disaster prevention and national land conservation, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, and energy production and supply. Transport infrastructure development in Cambodia involved with (1) road, (2) railway, (3) port, inland-water way and (4) aviation. All model of transport infrastructure have special different kinds of importance. Railway is different from other base important of railways are transport passengers and traffic freight especially transport for heavy goods in huge capacity and in long distance by safer and faster. Transport in Cambodia for traffic freight export import base from Thailand and other via Sisophon and Shihanoukvill port. Traffic is increasing rapidly during nowadays railway condition in adequate of demand required. This is why Railway is selected as the topic of this paper to prevent monopoly of road transport. This paper, does review about infrastructure development plan for Railway in Cambodia as a long term strategy by review and analysis forecast on the previous performance of Royal Railways of Cambodia (RRC) transport traffic involved with condition of infrastructure development of railway in Cambodia. And also review the plan of development RRC but just only detail a plan of rehabilitation that is immediately needed. Suggest some recommendation at the last part. As Cambodia is a member country of ASEAN and also Mekong sub-region. For make sure that transport networks work effectively with a progress of economic integration, we make clear what is important for infrastructure development of railway in Cambodia from the standpoint of the development plan of Mekong sub-region. This paper is organized by 4 sections. Section 1 review about Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia (IDRC) Historical Background, Follow by Section 2 will review the Current Situation of IDRC and some analysis of transport performance from previous years, Then Section 3 review of the focusing on traffic transport of RRC in the future, Section 4 review Infrastructure Development of Railway in Cambodia Future plans in long term; at last conclusion and recommendation. In section 1 does review history background of RRC from the rail first begun. But why is needed to review? Because of history background is involved infrastructure development of RRC in present time. History background made big gaps constraint and obstacle for socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, also left Cambodia with tragedy and left developed behind. After that remain infrastructure development needs huge fund and long time for restoration, reconstruction, rehabilitation and development into new technology as most of world practice.Asia, Developing countries, Service sector, Networks, Cambodia, Railway, Infrastructure

Bioaccumilation of Heavy Metals in Fish Liza parsia (Hamilton, 1822), from Kayamkulam Estuary

Accumulation of Arsenic, Cd, Cu, Pb and Hg in water, gills, liver and muscles of fish Liza parsia were analyzed from the four different sites along the Kayamkulam Backwater. The results showed that the highest concentration of as was found in liver tissues followed by gills. Gill tissues of the fish had a higher accumulation of Cu followed by liver and muscles. Higher accumulation of cadmium was observed in gills followed by liver tissue. Pb accumulation was found to be higher in liver as well as in gills followed by muscles. Accumulations of heavy metals in fish organs showed a seasonal fluctuation. The concentration of the detected metals was highest during warmer months, while the lowest values were observed during colder months. The organ specific comparison of heavy metals level indicated that the highest concentration was found in liver tissues. The lowest concentration was detected in muscle because muscle is not an active tissue in the accumulation of heavy metals. Pearson correlation matrix analysis revealed that there was a significant relationship between the accumulation of heavy metals in water and tissues of the fish sample

STATUS OF PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN KAYAMKULAM ESTUARY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FISHES

World wide application of pesticide has drastically increased during the last two decades resulting with the changes in farming practices and enormously increasing intensive agriculture. This wide application of pesticides has resulted in the presence of their residues in various environmental matrices. It’s environmental tenacious, hoarding and their impacts in the ecosystem was incompetently perceive. These chemicals will finally enters into the aquatic system. Their lower persistent and soluble nature of many pesticide will impart their major portion to fishes, so the aim of the present study was the assessment of residues in water and fishes of the aquatic system it will throw back the present status of accumulation pesticides in the ecosystem. Result of the analysis showed that the fishes from the various study locations are fit for domestic consumptions, as the samples studied did not indicate any adverse or extremely high pesticide content that may affect the health of those consuming the fishes