We assessed implementation of the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) in primary care facilities in the Syrian Arab Republic and its short-term impact on respiratory care in patients aged 5+ ...years. After training on PAL for 76 general practitioners in 75 health centres, referrals and sputum smear examinations for patients increased. The mean number of drugs prescribed per patient decreased by 14.8% and that of antibiotics by 33.3%, while prescriptions for inhaled medications increased. The mean cost of drug prescriptions fell by 26.2%. Nous avons evalue la mise en oeuvre de l'approche pratique de la sante respiratoire (APSR) dans les services de soins de sante primaires de la Republique arabe syrienne et ses effets court terme sur les soins respiratoires chez les patients ages de 5 ans et plus. Apres la formation l'APSR dispensee 76 medecins generalistes dans 75 centres de sante, le nombre d'orientations de patients vers des services specialises et d'examens de frottis de crachats a progresse. Le nombre moyen de medicaments prescrits par patient a diminue de 14,8 % et celui des antibiotiques de 33,3 %, alors que les prescriptions de medicaments inhales ont augmente. Le cout moyen des prescriptions de medicaments a chute de 26,2 %. TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII
A stellar occultation by Pluto was observed on 6 June 2020 with the 1.3-m and 3.6-m telescopes located at Devasthal, Nainital, India, using imaging systems in the I and H bands, respectively. From ...this event, we derive a surface pressure for Pluto's atmosphere of \(p_{\rm surf}= 12.23^{+0.65}_{-0.38} \)~\(\mu\)bar. This shows that Pluto's atmosphere is in a plateau phase since mid-2015, a result which is in excellent agreement with the Pluto volatile transport model of Meza et al. (2019}. This value does not support the pressure decrease reported by independent teams, based on occultations observed in 2018 and 2019, see Young et al. (2021} and Arimatu et al. (2020), respectively.
At the IAU XXVI General Assembly in 2006, the Division I decided to create the Working Group on Astrometry by Small Ground-Based Telescopes (WG-ASGBT). Its scientic goals are to foster the follow-up ...of small bodies detected by the large surveys including the NEOs; to set-up a dedicated observation network for the follow-up of objects which will be detected by Gaia; to contribute to the observation campaigns of the mutual events of natural satellites, stellar occultations, and binary asteroids; and to encourage teaching astrometry for the next generation. The present report gives the main activities carried out in these areas with small telescopes (diameter less than 2m).
We present results derived from the first multi-chord stellar occultation by the trans-Neptunian object (229762) 2007 UK\(_{126}\), observed on 2014 November 15. The event was observed by the ...Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON) project and International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) collaborators throughout the United States. Use of two different data analysis methods obtain a satisfactory fit to seven chords, yelding an elliptical fit to the chords with an equatorial radius of \(R=338_{-10} ^{+15}\) km and equivalent radius of \(R_{eq}=319_{-7} ^{+14}\) km. A circular fit also gives a radius of \(R=324_{-23} ^{+30}\) km. Assuming that the object is a Maclaurin spheroid with indeterminate aspect angle, and using two published absolute magnitudes for the body, we derive possible ranges for geometric albedo between \(p_{V}=0.159_{-0.013} ^{+0.007}\) and \(p_{R}=0.189_{-0.015}^{+0.009}\), and for the body oblateness between \(\epsilon=0.105_{-0.040} ^{+0.050}\) and \(\epsilon=0.118_{-0.048} ^{+0.055}\). For a nominal rotational period of 11.05 h, an upper limit for density of \(\rho=1740\) kg~m\(^{-3}\) is estimated for the body.
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