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And the leak likely did not "lock in" anything.

"Breaking dead DNC leaker has just been identified."

This study aimed to identify hospital neonatal mortality rate (NMR) and the causes of neonatal deaths, and to understand risk factors associated with neonatal mortality in a national tertiary hospital in Cambodia. The study included all newborn infants, aged 0–28 days old, hospitalized in the Pediatrics department of Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital between January 2016 and December 2017. In total, 925 infants were included in the study. The mean gestational age was 35.9 weeks (range, 24–42 weeks). Preterm infants and low birth weight accounted for 47.5% and 56.7%, respectively. With respect to payment methods, the government (53.5%) and non-governmental organizations (NGO) (13.7%) paid the fees as the families were not in a financial position to do so. The hospital NMR at the Pediatrics department was 9.3%. Respiratory distress syndrome (37.2%) was the main cause of deaths followed by hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (31.4%) and neonatal infection (21.0%). Factors associated with neonatal mortality were Apgar score at 5th minute <7 (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 3.57), payment by the government or NGO (AOR = 11.32), admission due to respiratory distress (AOR = 11.94), and hypothermia on admission (AOR = 9.41). The hospital NMR in the Pediatrics department was 9.3% (95% confidence interval 7.50–11.35) at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital; prematurity and respiratory distress syndrome were the major causes of neonatal mortality. Introducing continuous positive airway pressure machine for respiratory distress syndrome and creating neonatal resuscitation guidelines and preventing hypothermia in delivery rooms are required to reduce the high NMR.

I have addressed the subject of whistle-blowing on numerous occasions during these past fifteen years, mostly in University lectures, seminars and published articles. This paper seeks to update and further develops the concerns, themes and proposals first articulated in Fabri (2002) but from a broader conceptual and practical perspective. This paper takes a new look at the whistle-blowing phenomenon and the growing list of true tales, recent media reports and literature on this truly fascinating subject. Starting with snap shot references to a couple of episodes from the Old Testament, it brings together diverse experiences and developments which in unexpected ways somehow manage to link the past with the present, the local with the foreign. The paper argues that whistleblowing should not be examined in isolation but rather in context because, like law itself, it is not an end in itself. The subject has significant moral and practical implications concerning one's personal ethical choices and the protection of the public interest. This last aspect can best be examined in the context of contemporary concerns with good corporate governance and with how public sector and commercial bodies conduct themselves. This paper also suggests that the term whistle-blowing is often used incorrectly and should henceforth be reserved exclusively to voluntary disclosures. A selective annotated bibliography at the end of the paper may hopefully guide readers interested in accessing further relevant materials on the subject. For cogent reasons of space, a comprehensive re-appraisal of the 1985 European Court of Justice judgment given in the case that Stanley Adams instituted against the European Commission will have to be deferred to another occasion. Although originally intended as an integral part of the present paper, only very brief references to this leading case can be made here. The judgment tackled the Commission's liability in damages. Adams is one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers. What is much less known is that he was a Maltese national. ; peer-reviewed

In the United States, the Executive branch possesses virtually unbridled classification authority to keep information from the public. Although the Freedom of Information Act and whistleblower protection laws serve as some check on the Executive's power over national security information, these tools remain largely ineffectual. Because the desire for tight information control competes with the demands of newsgathering, a "game of leaks" has developed among government officials and reporters in which the press alternatively serves as lapdogs, watchdogs, and scapegoats for the Executive branch. This Article demonstrates that the government has been communicating information to the public through leaks ever since the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. Legal developments in the current climate, including the on-going prosecution of two lobbyists for violations of the Espionage Act in the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee case, have the potential to establish precedents that could pose dire consequences for this crucial information flow. This Article scrutinizes the constitutionality of prosecuting the non-government parties for the publication of classified information by examining the long and complicated history of the relationship between the press and the Executive branch and the role leaks play in the dissemination of classified information to the public today. After examining the relationship between the press and the Executive branch as well as tracing the development of the reasoning behind the applicable First Amendment doctrine, this Article ultimately argues that in any prosecution against a non-government actor for disseminating national security information, the government must demonstrate that the disclosure posed an immediate and direct threat to national security, but also that the offender either intended the disclosure to harm the United States or help a foreign nation, or that the offender was recklessly indifferent to the harm that the disclosure would cause. Given that the Executive branch has so much power to control the dissemination of national security information to the public, and itself leaks information to support its agenda, its power to punish the publication of leaks must be extremely limited. An intent requirement is consistent with the Supreme Court's free speech jurisprudence and helps achieve this goal. An intent requirement will encourage the government and the press to continue their historical cooperation when the publication of certain information poses a possible threat to national security interests. It will create an incentive for the government officials to explain their national security concerns to the press, and will simultaneously hold the press accountable for any reckless disregard shown to genuine threats. This approach seeks to strike the proper balance between the Executive's vast ability to control the dissemination of national security information to the public—often through calculated leaks—and the need to maintain the secrecy of information that is truly sensitive.

Following the recent European directives highlighting the need to increase energy efficiency in the European Union, this work aims to show the possibility of using Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) techniques to improve energy audits by estimating the compressed air leakage from a dataset of a tertiary building. The first step towards the reduction of energy consumption is performing an energy audit, in which a detailed analysis of the energy performance is executed. This analysis usually uses on-site measured data by the auditors. However, the time available for these measurements is limited and may not include some modes of operation. One example of that is the quantification of compressed air leaks. This task can be performed by estimating the flow rate during a no compressed air consumption period. However, these periods may not coincide with the auditors' original schedule. This problem could be addressed by using historical data. Nevertheless, historical data from energy management systems usually are only available for global consumption, and rarely for individual appliances. In this context, a NILM approach would be helpful to enhance energy audits carrying analysis of modes of operation not included in the on-site measurements. In this paper, the leaks are firstly quantified using measurements mostly for benchmarking purposes. The results suggested 62% of leaks in the study case. In a second step, the Factorial Hidden Markov Model (FHMM) was applied to the data. Five typical working days, simulating the context of an energy audit, were used as training data, while one week during vacation time, with no compressed air consumption, was used to quantify the leaks. The results show that it was possible, in the context of an energy audit, to estimate the compressed air leakage using NILM techniques in this dataset with less than a 1% difference when compared to the estimation made with actual measurement. Finally, savings estimations considering the elimination of the leaks were performed, varying between 10% and 100% of the leakage repair. Considering the ideal scenario of complete leaks elimination, the savings would represent around 44% in the compressed air system and 4.75% of the current annual global consumption.

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Nationwide, underground storage tanks (UST) containing petroleum and other hazardous substances are leaking, thereby contaminating the soil and water, and posing health risks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which implements the UST program with the states, required tank owners to install leak detection and prevention equipment by the end of 1993 and 1998 respectively. The Congress asked GAO to determine to what extent (1) tanks comply with the requirements, (2) EPA and the states are inspecting tanks and enforcing requirements, (3) upgraded tanks still leak, and (4) EPA and states are cleaning up these leaks. In response, GAO conducted a survey of all states in 2000 and issued a report on its findings in May 2001. This testimony is based on that report, as well as updated information on program performance since that time."

ABSTRACTSMobile populations of Albanians have made the Greek borders the site where identity is played out and defined. At the same time, media panic stories about disease crossing Greek frontiers point to the borders as infection: they leak not only people but contamination. Yet these borders are bidirectional, and create risks for the Albanians as well. Their continued migrations in the face of risk point to the borders as process. These are borders in pain, borders that ache and leak.

LPG gas conversion is one of the government programs which became the modern household items at this time. Although LPG stove is have advantage simple to use than petroleum stove, but still have disadvantage dangerous if there are gas leak. As theri danger, so need a detector gas leak warning signal if there are leak. To get system that can be automatic operation, so need Arduino-uno as controller and using MQ-2 gas sensor. This device works when the MQ-2 gas sensor detects LPG gas on the normal condition of the air. System will use LPG gas sensor that usable to detect gas leak on gas stove equipment and this device has been made successfully and able to help as leakage detector of the LPG gas tube on the kitchen. The process of testing this system gets a sound notification and LED (Light Emitting Diode) that there has been a leak of LPG cylinders ; Gas LPG merupakan salah satu program konversi pemerintah yang menjadi barang kebutuhan rumah tangga modern saat ini. Meskipun gas LPG lebih praktis penggunaanya daripada minyak tanah, tetapi masih memiliki kekurangan yaitu bahaya yang dapat ditimbulkan gas LPG jika terjadi kebocoran gas. Berdasarkan bahaya tersebut maka diperlukan suatu alat yang dapat mendeteksi kebocoran serta tanda peringatan adanya kebocoran. Untuk mendapatkan sistem yang dapat bekerja secara otomatis, maka diperlukan arduino-uno sebagai pengontrol alat tersebut dan menggunakan Sensor Gas MQ-2. Alat ini bekerja pada saat sensor MQ-2 mendeteksi gas LPG pada udara normal. Sistem ini dirancang dengan menggunakan sensor gas MQ-2 yang berfungsi mendeteksi kebocoran gas pada perlengkapan kompor gas dan Alat tersebut telah berhasil direalisasikan dan dapat membantu sebagai pendeteksi kebocoran terhadap tabung gas LPG pada ruang dapur. Proses pengujian sistem ini medapatkan pemeberitahuan bunyi serta LED (Light Emiting Diode) bahwa telah terjadi kebocoran tabung LPG.