In the winter of 2023/2024, the mass death of swans was observed on Lake Karakol on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.From 21 December 2023 to 25 January 2024, 1132 swan corpses (Cygnus olor, Cygnus Ornithine cygnus) were collected and disposed of on the coast by veterinary services and ecologists.Biological samples were collected from 18 birds
Purpose: One of the issues that a planner is often facing in HDR brachytherapy is the selective existence of high dose volumes around some few dominating dwell positions.If there is no information available about its necessity (e.g.location of a GTV), then it is reasonable to investigate whether this can be avoided.This effect can be eliminated by
Abstract Background Mental health workers (MHWs) are exposed to conflicts of competence daily when performing tasks related to the provision of mental health services.This may be linked to a lack of understanding of their tasks as caregivers and providers.Furthermore, in most low-income settings, it is unclear how the available services are organiz
In this work, we study a Markov model of cyber threats that act on a computer system.Within the framework of the model the computer system is considered as a system with failures and recoveries by analogy with models of reliability theory.To estimate functionally-temporal properties of the system we introduce a parameter called the lifetime of the
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal agencies face a number of challenges in interpreting and reconciling short-duration (seconds to minutes) readings from mobile and handheld air sensors with the longer duration averages (hours to days) associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the criteria po