Given the injected activities and the low count rate observed in the patient study, the impact of the dead-time correction factors here was negligible (around 1%).
The model could reproduce reasonably well the observed preferential migration of AY7 and SB through the fractured till, although it did not capture the exact depth of migration and the negligible impact of the dead-end biopores in a near-saturated matrix.
Really, when you begin to learn the true nature of what they do and why they do it, the macabre implications and sensational impact of dozens of dead bodies rotting in a field fall quickly away.
David Olson, the deputy medical director at Doctors Without Borders, the Paris-based medical emergency organization, said its teams of doctors now deployed in the Philippines worry about the emotional impact of the visible dead on their patients, but are more concerned about treating the living.
But the visual impact of a pile of dead cockroaches can be quite dramatic.
The simulated velocity field demonstrated that wetland shape can have significant impact on the size of dead zone areas, which is also reflected in the RTD.
They may have a major impact on the decomposition of dead plant roots.
Temporal changes in sensitivity and specificity showed the impact of reduced reporting of dead birds over time because the values for both measures of validity were highest in 2004 and declined to 0 or near 0 in all subsequent years.
A thematic analysis of these narratives was performed, and various factors that impacted both the handling of dead people and the survivors' resilience were identified.
