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Diseases of the Trachea

Written By: Rggr - May• 02•12

Trachea is the connection tube between larynx and pharynx to lungs. It allows the air pass. Trachea has a very important role for breathing. Also this high usage area has lots of different diseases.

Choking is the most seen problem of trachea. It generally stops the air pass from environment to lungs. It can effect partially or total. Long choking creates anoxia and result is mostly fatal. Oxygen in the lungs may give life to man for three or four minutes only when choked.

Tracheomalacia is the main diseases of the trachea. When a human breathe trachea dilates and narrows. When tracheal support cartilage is not working properly, it collapses and breathing starts to be harder or totally stops. There are 3 types of Tracheomalacia as congenital, compression to vascular rings and intubation or polychondritis. Surgery needs mostly to fix this problem.

Tracheobronchial injury is another problematic situation for trachea. Tracheobronchial tree based on bronchi and trachea. Main causes are hurt by blunt or penetrating trauma to chest. Also smoke or dangerous fume inhaling creates the problem. It’s mostly a life threatening problem. Total mortality rate in tracheobronchial injury is%30 of all patients. Problem is very hard to diagnose and treat. Early treatment may save from other complications.

Lung disease Mounier-Kuhn syndrome is also a problem of trachea. In Mounier-Kuhn syndrome brochies and trachea widens abnormally. It opens the way for lung infections.

Tracheotomy is the main way of trachea treatment. It’s mainly opening a breathe way on the treache.

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Background on Greenhouse Gas Registries

Written By: Rggr - Feb• 23•04

Overview

A greenhouse gas registry is a database wherein companies, states and other entities that emit greenhouse gases can register and record their respective emissions and reductions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride.

Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions

An entity must first perform an emissions inventory to quantify and delineate its greenhouse gas emissions. This process varies depending on the entity at hand (corporate level, municipality level, institutional level, etc.) and the specified calculation parameters and sectors included.

Among many excellent resources and service providers available to aid with emissions inventories, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative provides the most widely accepted “best practice” accounting and reporting standard. The Protocol reflects the consensus of a multi-stakeholder partnership of businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), governments and others, developed jointly by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), a Geneva-based coalition of 170 international companies, and the World Resource Institute (WRI), a U.S.-based environmental NGO.

The Protocol provides tools with step-by-step guidance and electronic worksheets to help users calculate greenhouse gas emissions from specific sources or industries. These tools are consistent with those prepared by theInternational Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and are widely considered as current “best practice.” Furthermore, the Protocol clearly defines all aspects of the GHG accounting and reporting applications, providing clear standards for a broad range of applications. As such, the extensive Protocol represents a set of internationally accepted and broadly applicable accounting and reporting standards that both demand and promote relevance, completeness, consistency, transparency and accuracy. Recognizing the advantages of such a standard, the Protocol has been centrally utilized for both national and international voluntary reduction programs, registries, national industry initiatives, trading programs and sector-specific protocols developed by a number of industry associations.

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Regional Greenhouse Gas Registry

Written By: Rggr - Feb• 23•04

About the Project

Project Overview

In October 2003, the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) launched a Regional Greenhouse Gas Registry (RGGR) for the Northeast. RGGR is a key piece of the infrastructure necessary for the northeastern states to move ahead in meeting their climate change commitments under the New England Governors-Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG/ECP) Climate Change Action Plan, adopted in August 2001. The NEG/ECP report includes several recommended action items, including the creation of a regional emissions registry and exploration of a trading mechanism. Specifically, Action Item # 9 in the Climate Change Action Plan calls for the creation of a greenhouse gas registry as a uniform and coordinated basis for emissions banking and trading, in the interest of establishing baseline assessment (detailed below) and evaluating the benefits of regional reduction strategies. The targets outlined within the NEG/ECP Climate Action Plan, as well as individual targets set by New York and New Jersey, reflect the increasing need for a well designed regional registry.

The registry will use quantification and reporting protocols based on the GHG Protocol, a multi-stakeholder collaboration led by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. The GHG Protocol corporate standards have been used by the California Climate Action Registry, the World Economic Forum Registry, and many other climate initiatives. Adopting these standards will promote consistency and harmonization within the United States and beyond. In addition, NESCAUM is coordinating work on RGGR with the California Climate Action Registry and will work to design RGGR so that it is as compatible as possible with the California Registry while still meeting the individual needs of the northeastern states. A Work Plan and schedule for the project have been approved by the participating states.

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The Eastern Climate Registry

Written By: Rggr - Feb• 23•04

The Eastern Climate Registry effort has now merged efforts with a larger multi-state registry initiative called The Climate Registry. The Climate Registry is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization governed by a Board of Directors made up of state and tribal representatives. Governors and Environmental Secretaries from member states and tribes joined the organization by signing on to a Statement of Principles and Goals and designating a representative to the organization’s Board of Directors.

The list of charter members includes 31 states that represent more than 70 percent of the nation’s population. The states are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The Campo Kumeyaay Nation is also a charter member and two Canadian provinces, British Columbia and Manitoba, have also committed to participate.

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Hello world!

Written By: Rggr - Feb• 23•04

Welcome to RGGR. This is my first post…

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