The distribution of hydraulic conductivity in model layers above and below the 96-m section (8 to 60 and 0.02 to 9 m/d, respectively) was similar to that in the regional model, but the values were adjusted during calibration to measured water levels and CFC, tritium, and C-14 concentrations measured in monitoring wells within the local model area.
The depth to water level measured in monitoring wells during October 2009 varies from 1 to 18 m (bgl) (Fig. 3a).
Using a least squares fit of the model to aqueous concentrations measured in monitoring wells, degradation rate constants were estimated at a former manufactured gas plant (FMGP) site in the Midwest U.S. The estimated degradation rate constants are 0.0014, 0.0034, 0.0031, 0.0019, and 0.0053 day−1 for acenaphthene, naphthalene, benzene, ethylbenzene, and toluene, respectively.
The aims are– (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of a community pharmacy-based intervention in managing sleep disorders, (2) to evaluate the role of actigraph as an objective measure in monitoring certain sleep disorders and (3) to evaluate the extended role of community pharmacists in managing sleep disorders.
These measures help in monitoring the course of disease and treatment response and can have a major impact on patient outcomes; some may serve as surrogate measures of disease severity.
The present findings indicate that noninvasive changes in gait, unrelated to classic joint pain measures, are useful in monitoring OA in STR/Ort mice.
At the time of euthanasia, greater reduction in range of motion was correlated with increase in modified Mankin scores of the operated limb, suggesting that goniometry may be a useful outcome measure in monitoring severity of osteoarthritis in this dog model, as has been shown in humans and other animal species (Lascelles et al. 2012; Holla et al. 2011).
The water quality group of environmental health indicators include all the standard physical and chemical parameters that are typically measured in monitoring programs, such as temperature, turbidity, salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and, in this case, additional lab-analysis values for various nutrient species.
Quantification of the localized periarticular osteoporosis has been proposed to be an outcome measure in monitoring treatments in early RA [ 15, 16] and to be able to predict future radiographic joint damage [ 17- 19].
