Study Site. The sampling was conducted at an isolated limestone hill, Mount Silabur, Serian, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (00°57.407’N, 110°30.276’E). Mount Silabur is approximately 350 metres high and measures roughly 500 by 300 metres. The cave entrance is about 150 metres from the foot of the hill. The cave itself consists of a main chamber connecting the opposite sides of the hill. There are multiple high xxxxxxxx (Xxxxxxx, 1964) that we excluded from our sampling for safety reasons. Our first fieldwork was on the 3rd of March 2017, when random sampling was carried out at two locations at the limestone outcrops and one location in the cave. The second sampling took place on the 16th of April 2017, when we conducted systematic sampling and sketched a map of the cave system in which we also indicated the location of the plots (Figure 4.1). Populations of hydrocenids were collected at 19 different plots surrounding the outcrops and inside of the cave.
Study Site. A. General Information Field work for this project took place in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, just north of Kenton, Oklahoma at The Nature Conservancy/Oklahoma State Parks Black Mesa Preserve. The areas surveyed included shortgrass prairie and Juniperus monosperma woodland habitats. Soil types encountered included Apache stony clay loam, Berthoud loam, Rough stony land, and Travesilla stony loam. Species encountered included Aristida spp., Buchloe dactyloides, Bouteloua curtipendua, B. gracilis, B. hirsuta, Chaetopappa ericoides, Comandra pallida, Dalea formosa, Echinocereus viridis, Melampodium leucantheum, Opuntia imbricata, O. polyacantha, O. phaeacantha, Tetraneuris scaposa, and Yucca glauca. These habitats, soils, and species are all known to be associated with populations of Asclepias uncialis.
Study Site. The research team obtained the data for this study from Xxxxx Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta, GA. Xxxxx Hospital is the largest hospital in the city of Atlanta, and the fifth- largest public hospital in the United States (“Xxxxx Memorial Hospital,” 2017). This hospital serves a large proportion of low-income patients and provides services to those with private insurance, public insurance, and those who are uninsured (“Xxxxx Memorial Hospital,” 2017). Xxxxx Hospital is one of the busiest Level I trauma centers in the United States, making it an ideal place for patients experiencing seizures to report. Sample Size Of the 25,865 patients in the total dataset, 19,905 patients were excluded from analyses for a lack of seizure event, ICD-9 780.39. From the selection of 5,960 patients with a seizure event, another 2,377 were excluded from the study sample because they were not prescribed any AEDs in their medical records. Next, patients were excluded if they did not have physician visits every three months. The final sample of patients included in the analyses was 126 patients. Figure 4 is Consort flow diagram explaining the process of analytic sample selection (Xxxxx & Marques, 2015).
Study Site. The village of Calhuitz in the municipality of San Sebastián Coatán in the department of Huehuetenango lies high in the mountains of Guatemala‘s western highlands. The residents of Calhuitz are indigenous Maya Chuj, the majority of whom practice Catholicism and are agriculturalists, many practicing subsistence agriculture and living in relative poverty. The village is very remote, approximately five hours in private vehicle from the departmental capital of Huehuetenango, where the closest national hospital is located, and transportation is limited with but one, daily round trip to Huehuetenango leaving at 4:00 a.m. While Calhuitz has no paved roads, it does have electricity and piped plumbing although the water is not potable and must be treated at point of use for safe consumption. The village has few shops that provide some basic necessities such as eggs, corn flour, and toilet paper. To purchase most of their consumer and food products, residents will either walk or bus a few kilometers downhill to the town of San Xxxx Pueblo Nuevo which has various stores and an open air market every Friday, the only day with regular microbus transportation between Calhuitz and San Xxxx. There is one community pharmacy located in Calhuitz which is adjoined to the Casa Materna maternity clinic. The Casa Materna (CM) serves not only the community of Calhuitz, where it is located, but also 25 surrounding communities. The services they provide include weighing and counseling of children, vaccination, supplementation, prenatal consults, family planning, health education for children and community members, continuing education for traditional birth attendants (TBAs), and general consults and emergency care at the clinic in addition to child delivery. The majority of newborns in Calhuitz are delivered at the CM with the assistance of the nurses and a TBA while the children in the surrounding communities are usually delivered in the home assisted by a TBA. Population and Sample In order to address breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices of children aged one to 12 months, 13 women of childbearing age with infants within that age range were chosen as the primary participants due to the fact that, many times, they are the primary caregivers. In order to collect data across the entire timeframe, women from each of the following approximate postnatal periods were selected: one month, three months, six months, nine months, and 12 months. Venue-based recruitment was conduct...
Study Site. The MASS project is a long term forest research installation located on private land (Island Timberlands Ltd) south of Xxxxxxxx River on Vancouver Island (latitude 49 º50’ N; longitude 125 º 25’E). Research and maintenance is conducted through agreements with Western Forest Products and the Canadian Forest Service. MASS was initiated in 1993 and includes replicated treatments representing a range of overstory removal (shelterwood, patch cut, and green tree retention) and adjacent old growth and clearcut control areas. The silvicultural treatments are described in detail by Xxxxxx and Xxxxx (1997). The study was designed as a split-plot experiment with each of the silvicultural treatments assigned three replicate nine ha blocks. Within each of these blocks 12 permanent sample plots (PSP’s) were randomly assigned from grid points of a 30X 30 meter grid within a core area buffered by at least two tree lengths. These were further divided into four quadrants (split-plots) each planted with three amabilis fir and three western hemlock. Each quadrant received a different post-planting treatment (fertilized, herbicide and fertilizer, herbicide and an untreated control). Details of the planting stock and post planting treatments are given by Xxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx (1995). Experimental Design In conjunction with the15 year re-measurment a subset of amabilis fir were selected from the MASS experimental design for intensive measurement and microsite characterization in order to determine the level of “growth check” and identify contributing factors. Western hemlock was not included due to the difficulty in determining annual height increments from the stem. The shelterwood system was excluded from the study since the comparatively high level of overstory shading is the primary growth limiting factor in this system. Trees on split-plots treated with herbicide (Vision applied from 1994-1997) were compared to untreated trees in the three silvicultural systems studied. This post-planting treatment was included in the study based on earlier MASS assessments that indicated that herbicide produced the best growth response of the post-planting treatments tested (Xxxxxxxx et al. 2007). Eight to ten permanent sample plot (PSP) locations (replicates) were selected from three blocks of the clearcut and patch-cut systems and from two blocks in the green tree and were randomly chosen except that PSP locations with high mortality were avoided. This may have had the effect of underesti...
Study Site. The intervention and data collection phases of the Latrine Training Mat study took place in the Matungu district of Kenya’s Western province. Western province was chosen because it has the country’s second highest prevalence of diarrheal disease among children under five. The rural, impoverished district of Matunga was selected because it was representative of the study’s target population – namely, rural families with children under the age of five, whose households had simple mud floor pit latrines with easily erodible holes. To gain entry to this community and subsequently select the study’s participants, WASH-LTM field officers approached the local village leaders of the district, who then directed them to several households with children in the target age range of two to five years. After visits to several homes in which they spoke to mothers and personally observed the household latrines, the field officers identified twenty potential households in two villages (ten households in each) which met the two key eligibility criteria discussed below. Out of these ten, a random name drawing was used in the field to select six households in each village to participate in the LTM intervention. These twelve participants – six from “Village 1” and six from “Village 2” – participated in in-depth interviews, then received the LTM intervention and took part in follow-up focus group discussions. It should be mentioned that all research for this study was originally planned to take place in the Siaya district, located near Matungu in Western province. It was chosen because the WASH-Benefits team had extensive connections with village chiefs and other local leaders who would be able to provide access to eligible study participants within the community. In addition, initial inquiries suggested that the region would be representative of the target population. As a result, all the instruments for the study were piloted in the Siaya district; furthermore, four preliminary focus group discussions with mothers and fathers regarding relevant local practices were held in villages in this district (although the data from these discussions went beyond the scope of this paper and thus were not analyzed). However, throughout the participant selection process for the intervention component of the study, it became apparent that Siaya was not actually representative of the target population, because a relief and development agency had implemented wide-scale sanitation interventions...
Study Site. Interviews were all conducted within the city of Nairobi, Kenya, and those sampled were all currently living and working in Nairobi, although some had had EMS experience in other parts of Kenya. Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, represents all ethnic groups and religions present in Kenya (CIA, 2012). The most recent data shows that Nairobi hosts over 3 million residents, making it the largest city in Kenya (CIA, 2012). This does not take into account the estimated almost 1 million people who live in the various slums contained within the Nairobi city limits. Nairobi was chosen for the study site because all major EMS companies are based out of Nairobi, and all government offices are there as well. Additionally, all EMT training takes place in Nairobi and the majority of the country’s ambulances are stationed throughout the city. Therefore, it hosts the most concentrated number of people who are actively involved in EMS development and who meet the criteria for the population studied. Interviews mostly took place in the location of the interviewees’ jobs, but sometimes were conducted in coffee shops and cafes before the workday started. Although there was a questionnaire used to guide the interview process, interviews were conducted informally with a pen and paper to record responses, in hopes to not intimidate the interviewees and to provide a relaxed and open environment that would encourage honest conversation.
Study Site. The Study shall be conducted at the Institution’s Clinic of Internal Medicine – Department of Hematology (“Study Site”). Institution represents and certifies that it has and, throughout the term of the Agreement, will have authority and control over Study Site’s facilities, equipment, inventory 1.12 Centrum studie. Studie se bude provádět na interní hematologické klinice zdravotnického zařízení („centrum studie“). Zdravotnické zařízení prohlašuje a dosvědčuje, že má a v průběhu celé doby platnosti této smlouvy bude mít pravomoc a kontrolu nad pracovišti centra studie, a dále nad vybavením, inventářem
Study Site. The Study shall be performed at the INSTITUTION Östersunds Sjukhus, Område Medicin,831 00 Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx (hereafter the «Study Site»). The INSTITUTION shall be responsible for obtaining necessary authorization from the representatives of the Study Site where the Study is performed. For the avoidance of doubt, the sums paid under Exhibit 1 of the Contract to INSTITUTION include full compensation for the performance of the Study carried out at the Study Site. Consequently, the INSTITUTION, shall have the sole responsibility to ensure that payment of any cost incurred by the Study Site (including but not limited to the costs of the Collaborators as such term is defined in article 5.2,) in connection with the Study are covered with the amounts to be paid under Exhibit 1. Such payments shall be directly and exclusively handled by the INSTITUTION.
Study Site. The study area is a southern Europe Atlantic estuary located at the western coast of Portugal (Figure 1). The Mondego estuary (40º08’N, 8º50’W) is a shallow Transitional Water (TW) classified as a mesotidal well-mixed estuary with irregular river discharges and included in the Portuguese A2 type (Xxxxxxxxxxx et al., 2004), and as NEA 11 in the WFD (2000/60/EC). The southern arm of the estuary, where seagrass xxxxxxx can be found, constitutes a subsystem with 7 km length, 0.5 km width, 2 to 4 m depth and 2.57 km2 in area. The marine influence is strong, and the average tidal amplitude of 1 to 3 m allows up to 75 % of this subsystem’s area to be air exposed during low tide. (Xxxx et al., 2010) Due to its regional economic value, all the basin was subjected to several physical modifications over the years (Xxxx et al., 2010). In this sense, the estuary has been continuously receiving high nutrient loads from the Mondego River catchment area, particularly those caused by the direct runoff from the 15,000 ha of cultivated land in the lower river valley (Neto et al., 2008). The estuary supports industrial activities, salt works, mercantile and fishing harbours, as well as the urban pressures from Figueira da Foz, a centre of seasonal tourism activity Two distinct time intervals could be observed throughout the study period from 1986 to 2009. A first period goes until 1997 and is characterised by a general degradation process occurring in the south arm of the Mondego. A second period, from that date until 2009, is characterised by the implementation of several mitigation measures that resulted in the beginning of an ecological recovery process in the south arm.
