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An exploration company that ran out of money after drilling wells in the Great Sandy Desert has been suspended from trading by the Australian Stock Exchange.

Little penguins can be susceptible to oil spills and when that happens they head to Phillip Island to get clean again, but not before being fitted out with special "rehabilitation jumpers".

Former water polo star Nick Dempsey will leave his Albury home to continue therapy at one of Australia's leading rehabilitation facilities on the Gold Coast.

The Sloane's froglet used to live and breed across vast areas of Victoria and New South Wales, but now it survives in just a few wetland pockets, which are being replanted to help it thrive.

For Edward Daly, who was at a rehab centre on the NSW Central Coast to get over his ice, alcohol and gambling addictions, having his partner involved in his recovery made all the difference.

(United States Third Circuit) - Held that the federal Rehabilitation Act generally requires that individuals with disabilities be permitted to be accompanied by their service animals. The plaintiffs in this case were the parents of an elementary school student with epilepsy who wanted to be accompanied at school by her service dog. On a question of first impression in the federal courts of appeals, the Third Circuit concluded that such requests for reasonable accommodation are per se reasonable in the ordinary course. The panel held that the district court's contrary jury instructions constituted reversible error.

With improved survival and and ageing population, the number of people living with coronary heart disease in the UK has increased to an estimated 2.3 million. There is increasing evidence that cardiac rehabilitation benefits these patients, and as such it has been included in international clinical guidelines. ​In this podcast, we're joined by...

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Outcomes analyses after trauma reveal long-term disability but are limited to specific injuries, older data, or all ages combined. There are no contemporary assessments of physical disability among children after inpatient rehabilitation for a wide range of traumatic injuries.

This is the first contemporary study to describe the physical disability of a large pediatric cohort after inpatient rehabilitation for various injuries. After a mean 21-day inpatient rehabilitation stay, significant reductions in functional disability were achieved across injury mechanisms. (Read the full article)

Work will begin this spring and continue into the summer of 2018.

Agency: DOT Closing Date: 5/12/2020

Agency: SEA Closing Date: 5/19/2020

Smyrna/Odessa --

Locations: Route 1 Northbound between Exit 119/North Smyrna Interchange to Exit 136/Odessa

Route 1 Southbound between Exit 136/Odessa and Exit 119/North Smyrna Interchange

Times & Dates: 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, pending weather.

Thursday, March 26, 2020 until mid-May 2020, pending weather.

Traffic Information: DelDOT announces to motorists that Route 1 northbound/Route 1 southbound between Exit 119 and Exit 136 will have daytime lane closures for the removal of recessed reflectors and concrete repairs. [More]

Bear/Christiana --

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces that their contractor Allan Myers MD Inc. will begin a pavement and rehabilitation project. This project will include an auxiliary lane along Route 1 southbound so that the Route 273 on-ramp would be a continuous lane through US 40 interchange.

In addition, this project will also include the following improvements: widening of the existing shoulder; overlay of the existing pavement; ditches and side slopes to be regraded; milling and paving of Route 1 northbound/southbound between Tybouts Corner and Route 273; existing lighting and overhead sign structures will be relocated; and other miscellaneous improvements. [More]

Christiana/Wilmington --

The Delaware Department of Transportation's (DelDOT) contractor, Diamond Materials will begin preliminary work prior to the paving of I-95 northbound/southbound from Churchmans Road to Christiana River Bridge.

On Monday, May 4, 2020, the right lane will be closed to motorists for approximately two weeks on I-95 northbound between Exit 5A/Route 141 southbound and Exit 5B/Route 141 northbound. This lane closure is necessary to replace a section of curb and guardrail in advance of the upcoming paving project. [More]

PAVEMENT AND REHABILITATION, NORTH VIII, 2018

PAVEMENT & REHABILITATION, NORTH VII, 2019

PAVEMENT & REHABILITATION, NORTH VIII, 2019

PAVEMENT AND REHABILITATION, NORTH XXI, 2016

PAVEMENT AND REHABILITATION, NORTH XVII, 2016

REHABILITATION OF I-95, 2ND STREET ON-RAMP IMPROVEMENTS

PAVEMENT AND REHABILITATION, NORTH IX, 2019

REHABILITATION OF I-95, BEARING REPLACEMENTS

SLAUGHTER BEACH RD REHABILITATION, SOUTH, 2019

According to the Federal Register, potential power is presently unutilized at the 800-kW East powerhouse and proposed 700-kW West powerhouse for the Potsdam hydroelectric project on the Raquette River in Lancaster County, New York. The proposed West powerhouse received a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exemption from licensing in 1981.  

On July 18, Empresa Publica de Producao de Electricidade (PRODEL) Project Manager, Celso Pontes, announced phase one at the 40-MW Matala hydroelectric project is complete and the detailed design of the second phase is now being prepared.
 

Healthcare systems need to prepare for the extensive physiotherapy and mental rehabilitation that people put on ventilators for covid-19 will need as they recover

Background

COPD patients account for a large proportion of lung transplants; lung transplantation survival benefit for COPD patients is not well established.

Biological nitrogen fixation can be an important source of nitrogen in tropical forests that serve as a major CO₂ sink. Extensive deforestation of the Amazon is known to influence microbial communities and the biogeochemical cycles they mediate. However, it is unknown how diazotrophs (nitrogen-fixing microorganisms) respond to deforestation and subsequent ecosystem conversion to agriculture, as well as whether they can recover in secondary forests that are established after agriculture is abandoned. To address these knowledge gaps, we combined a spatially explicit sampling approach with high-throughput sequencing of nifH genes. The main objectives were to assess the functional distance decay relationship of the diazotrophic bacterial community in a tropical forest ecosystem and to quantify the roles of various factors that drive the observed changes in the diazotrophic community structure. We observed an increase in local diazotrophic diversity (α-diversity) with a decrease in community turnover (β-diversity), associated with a shift in diazotrophic community structure as a result of the forest-to-pasture conversion. Both diazotrophic community turnover and structure showed signs of recovery in secondary forests. Changes in the diazotrophic community were primarily driven by the change in land use rather than differences in geochemical characteristics or geographic distances. The diazotroph communities in secondary forests resembled those in primary forests, suggesting that at least partial recovery of diazotrophs is possible following agricultural abandonment.

IMPORTANCE The Amazon region is a major tropical forest region that is being deforested at an alarming rate to create space for cattle ranching and agriculture. Diazotrophs (nitrogen-fixing microorganisms) play an important role in supplying soil N for plant growth in tropical forests. It is unknown how diazotrophs respond to deforestation and whether they can recover in secondary forests that establish after agriculture is abandoned. Using high-throughput sequencing of nifH genes, we characterized the response of diazotrophs’ β-diversity and identified major drivers of changes in diazotrophs from forest-to-pasture and pasture-to-secondary-forest conversions. Studying the impact of land use change on diazotrophs is important for a better understanding of the impact of deforestation on tropical forest ecosystem functioning, and our results on the potential recovery of diazotrophs in secondary forests imply the possible restoration of ecosystem functions in secondary forests.

Healthcare systems need to prepare for the extensive physiotherapy and mental rehabilitation that people put on ventilators for covid-19 will need as they recover

Gordon Quinn survived COVID-19 and was on a ventilator for 10 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Now he's recovering with the help of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.

The Department filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Calif., against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), alleging that the CDCR failed to promptly reemploy U.S. Air Force reservist Dany Felix in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).

Regency Nursing and Rehabilitation Centers Inc. nursing home chain will pay the United States $4 million to settle allegations that Regency submitted false claims to Medicare and the Texas Medicaid program. The Victoria, Texas-based chain currently owns and operates 24 nursing home facilities located through the state.

The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a consent decree with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation that, if approved by the U.S. District Court, will resolve the department’s complaint filed in May 2009, alleging violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994. 

Detroit-area resident Tariq Mahmud, 55, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and six counts of health care fraud.

Detroit-area resident Tariq Mahmud, 54, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn in the Eastern District of Michigan.

The Justice Department announced today that, as part of its Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, it has reached a settlement agreement with another health care provider, Medical Facilities of America XXIX Limited Partnership, t/a Burke Health and Rehabilitation Center in Burke, Va., to ensure that they provide effective communication to people who are deaf or have hearing loss.

The Department of Justice announced today the filing of a lawsuit, against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), alleging that CDCR discriminated against Joe B. Cummings on the basis of his sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended.

The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement that, if approved by the court, will resolve allegations that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation discriminated against an employee because of his sex in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Life Care Services LLC, a manager of skilled nursing facilities based in Des Moines, Iowa, and CoreCare V LLP, doing business as ParkVista, a skilled nursing facility in Fullerton, California, have agreed to pay a total of $3.75 million to the government for causing the submission of false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy purportedly provided by RehabCare Group East Inc., a subsidiary of Kindred Healthcare Inc.