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Current Publisher: MDPI (10.3390)
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Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205524
The zero-energy building (ZEB) concept has a high potential for securing energy savings in the building sector. To achieve ZEB, various active systems, including renewable systems such as photovoltaic, solar heating, and geothermal systems, have been developed. However, the existing systems are costly or not optimized. To overcome these issues, the authors previously developed an integrated tri-generation system. In this research, the previously developed system was comprehensively analyzed considering the indoor thermal comfort and energy efficiency to develop a design and operation method for the integrated system. Two different heating systems (convective heating and radiant floor heating) were employed in the tri-generation system, and their system performance, predicted mean vote (PMV), and predicted percentage of dissatisfied (PPD) were compared using simulations. The results showed that the heating coefficient of power of the radiant floor heating system was 18.8% higher than that of the convective heating system. Moreover, the radiant floor heating system (Case 4) met the PMV and PPD standards during all the heating periods. Overall, radiant floor heating was found to be more efficient than convective heating. The results confirm that radiant floor heating is more suitable than convective heating considering the indoor thermal comfort of occupants.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205511
This study investigates the frequency–temperature relations between the phase angle φ and admittance Y for composites of cellulose, synthetic ester, and water nanoparticles. We determined the activation energy value for the relaxation time of a phase shift angle ΔWφ ≈ (0.783 ± 0.0744) eV, which was related to the shift of φ(f) waveforms in higher frequency area with increasing temperature. We found that the position of admittance frequency waveforms in double logarithmic coordinates was simultaneously influenced by the temperature dependence of admittance and its relaxation time. Activation energy values for the relaxation time of admittance ΔWτ ≈ (0.796 ± 0.0139) eV and the activation energy value of admittance ∆WY ≈ (0.800 ± 0.0162) eV were determined. It was found that all three activation energy values were identical and their average was ΔW ≈ (0.793 ± 0.0453) eV. Impregnation with synthetic ester resulted in a decrease of activation energy by 0.26 eV compared to the impregnation with insulating oil. This was related to higher dielectric permittivity of the synthetic ester.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205513
The integration of commercial onshore large-scale wind farms into a national grid comes with several technical issues that predominately ensure power quality in accordance with respective grid codes. The resulting impacts are complemented with the absorption of larger amounts of reactive power by wind generators. In addition, seasonal variations and inter-farm wake effects further deteriorate the overall system performance and restrict the optimal use of available wind resources. This paper presented an assessment framework to address the power quality issues that have arisen after integrating large-scale wind farms into weak transmission grids, especially considering inter-farm wake effect, seasonal variations, reactive power depletion, and compensation with a variety of voltage-ampere reactive (Var) devices. Herein, we also proposed a recovery of significant active power deficits caused by the wake effect via increasing hub height of wind turbines. For large-scale wind energy penetration, a real case study was considered for three wind farms with a cumulative capacity of 154.4 MW integrated at a Nooriabad Grid in Pakistan to analyze their overall impacts. An actual test system was modeled in MATLAB Simulink for a composite analysis. Simulations were performed for various scenarios to consider wind intermittency, seasonal variations across four seasons, and wake effect. The capacitor banks and various flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) devices were employed for a comparative analysis with and without considering the inter-farm wake effect. The power system parameters along with active and reactive power deficits were considered for comprehensive analysis. Unified power flow controller (UPFC) was found to be the best compensation device through comparative analysis, as it maintained voltage at nearly 1.002 pu, suppressed frequency transient in a range of 49.88–50.17 Hz, and avoided any resonance while maintaining power factors in an allowable range. Moreover, it also enhanced the power handling capability of the power system. The 20 m increase in hub height assisted the recovery of the active power deficit to 48%, which thus minimized the influence of the wake effect.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205512
The biomass industry is growing due to the current search for greener and more sustainable alternatives to fossil energy sources. However, this industry, due to its singularity, presents several challenges and disadvantages related to the transportation of raw materials, with the large volumes that are usually involved. This project aimed to address this internal logistics situation in torrefied biomass pellets production with two different biomass storage parks, located in Portugal. The main park receives raw material coming directly from the source and stores it in large amounts as a backup and strategic storage park. The second park, with smaller dimensions, precedes the production unit and must be stocked daily. Therefore, a fleet of transport units with self-unloading cranes is required to help to unload the biomass at the main park and transport the raw material from this park to the one preceding the production unit. Thus, the main goal was to determine the dimensions of the fleet used in internal transportation operations to minimize the idle time of the transport units using a methodology already in use in the mining and quarrying industry. This methodology was analyzed and adapted to the situation presented here. The implementation of this study allows the elimination of unnecessary costs in an industry where the profit margins are low.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205520
In this paper, we propose using particle swarm optimization (PSO) which can improve weighted k-nearest neighbors (PWKNN) to diagnose the failure of a wind power system. PWKNN adjusts weight to correctly reflect the importance of features and uses the distance judgment strategy to figure out the identical probability of multi-label classification. The PSO optimizes the weight and parameter k of PWKNN. This testing is based on four classified conditions of the 300 W wind generator which include healthy, loss of lubrication in the gearbox, angular misaligned rotor, and bearing fault. Current signals are used to measure the conditions. This testing tends to establish a feature database that makes up or trains classifiers through feature extraction. Not lowering the classification accuracy, the correlation coefficient of feature selection is applied to eliminate irrelevant features and to diminish the runtime of classifiers. A comparison with other traditional classifiers, i.e., backpropagation neural network (BPNN), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), and radial basis function network (RBFN) shows that PWKNN has a higher classification accuracy. The feature selection can diminish the average features from 16 to 2.8 and can reduce the runtime by 61%. This testing can classify these four conditions accurately without being affected by noise and it can reach an accuracy of 83% in the condition of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is 20dB. The results show that the PWKNN approach is capable of diagnosing the failure of a wind power system.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205515
This paper presents a broad overview of laboratory methods for measuring thermal properties and petrophysical parameters of carbonate rocks, and analytical methods for interpreting the obtained data. The investigation was conducted on carbonate rock samples from the Kraków region of Poland in the context of shallow geothermal potential assessment. The measurement techniques used included standard macroscopic examinations; petrophysical investigations (porosity, density); analysis of mineral composition thermal conductivity (TC) and specific heat measurements; and advanced investigations with the use of computed tomography (CT). Various mathematical models, such as layer model, geometric mean, and spherical and non-spherical inclusion models, were applied to calculate thermal conductivity based on mineralogy and porosity. The aim of this paper was to indicate the optimal set of laboratory measurements of carbonate rock samples ensuring sufficient characterization of petrophysical and thermal rock properties. This concerns both the parameters directly characterizing the geothermal potential (thermal conductivity) and other petrophysical parameters, e.g., porosity and mineral composition. Determining the quantitative relationship between these parameters can be of key importance in the case of a shortage of archival thermal conductivity data, which, unlike other petrophysical measurements, are not commonly collected. The results clearly show that the best correlations between calculated and measured TC values exist for the subgroup of samples of porosity higher than 4%. TC evaluation based on porosity and mineral composition correlation models gives satisfactory results compared with direct TC measurements. The methods and results can be used to update the existing 3D parametric models and geothermal potential maps, and for the preliminary assessment of geothermal potential in the surrounding area.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205523
This paper analyzes a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based One Cycle Control (OCC) strategy for a Power Factor Corrector (PFC) rectifier with Common-mode Voltage (CMV) immunity. It is proposed a strategy that utilizes an emulated-resistance-controller in closed-loop configuration to set the dc-link voltage to achieve unity power factor (UPF). It is shown that if the PFC can achieve UPF condition and if the phase voltage is only affected by CMV, then phase current is free from CMV, as well as a lead-lag compensator (LLC) to average phase current.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205506
The present study explores the entropy generation, flow, and heat transfer characteristics of a dissipative nanofluid in the presence of transpiration effects at the boundary. The non-isothermal boundary conditions are taken into consideration to guarantee self-similar solutions. The electrically conducting nanofluid flow is influenced by a magnetic field of constant strength. The ultrafine particles (nanoparticles of Fe3O4/CuO) are dispersed in the technological fluid water (H2O). Both the base fluid and the nanofluid have the same bulk velocity and are assumed to be in thermal equilibrium. Tiwari and Dass’s idea is used for the mathematical modeling of the problem. Furthermore, the ultrafine particles are supposed to be spherical, and Maxwell Garnett’s model is used for the effective thermal conductivity of the nanofluid. Closed-form solutions are derived for boundary layer momentum and energy equations. These solutions are then utilized to access the entropy generation and the irreversibility parameter. The relative importance of different sources of entropy generation in the boundary layer is discussed through various graphs. The effects of space free physical parameters such as mass suction parameter (S), viscous dissipation parameter (Ec), magnetic heating parameter (M), and solid volume fraction (ϕ) of the ultrafine particles on the velocity, Bejan number, temperature, and entropy generation are elaborated through various graphs. It is found that the parabolic wall temperature facilitates similarity transformations so that self-similar equations can be achieved in the presence of viscous dissipation. It is observed that the entropy generation number is an increasing function of the Eckert number and solid volume fraction. The entropy production rate in the Fe3O4−H2O nanofluid is higher than that in the CuO−H2O nanofluid under the same circumstances.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205509
The proliferation of solar power systems could cause instability within existing power grids due to the variable nature of solar power. A well-defined statistical model is important for managing the supply-and-demand dynamics of a power system that contains a significant variable renewable energy component. It is furthermore important to consider the inherent uncertainty in the data when modeling such a complex power system. Gaussian process regression has the potential to address both of these concerns: the probabilistic modeling of solar radiation data could assist in managing the variability of solar power, as well as provide a mechanism to deal with uncertainty. In this paper, solar radiation data was obtained from the Southern African Universities Radiometric Network and used to train a Gaussian process regression model which was developed especially for this purpose. Attention was given to constructing an appropriate Gaussian process kernel. It was found that a carefully constructed kernel allowed for the successful interpolation of global horizontal irradiance data, with a root-mean-squared error of 82.2W/m2. Gaps in the data, due to possible meter failure, were also bridged by the Gaussian process with a root-mean-squared error of 94.1 W/m2 and accompanying confidence intervals. A root-mean-squared error of 151.1 W/m2 was found when forecasting the global horizontal irradiance with a forecasting horizon of five days. These results, achieved in modeling solar radiation data using Gaussian process regression, could open new avenues in the development of probabilistic renewable energy management systems. Such systems could aid smart grid operators and support energy trading platforms, by allowing for better-informed decisions that incorporate the inherent uncertainty of stochastic power systems.
Energies, Volume 13; doi:10.3390/en13205507
The cost of solar PV has been reduced to a level such that the levelized cost of solar electricity is either cheaper or competitive relative to the grid electricity. So, a low-cost integration of solar PV with grid can be a cost-effective solution for clean cooking. The usual technique of using grid-tied inverters contribute ~20% towards the energy cost. The proposed system incorporates a control circuit that connects grid electricity to the solar PV via a DC link and provides a DC output eliminating the requirement of grid-tied inverters. Most of the cooking utensils either have a resistive heating element or an electronic control circuit that is insensitive to input AC or DC and no modification is needed for the cooking utensils while using with DC voltage. In the proposed system, preference for power delivery is always given to the solar PV and the grid effectively operates as the backup for the system when solar PV output fluctuates due to varying weather and climatic conditions. As the absence of a grid-tied inverter in the system restricts the excess solar energy to be transferred to the grid, some kind of energy storage device is essential to run the system efficiently. A novel idea of storing solar PV energy in the form of hot water has been presented in this paper, with a cost-effective clean cooking concept. A simple and low-cost heat preservation technique has been suggested that requires a minimal change in habit for the users. Experimental results with multiple cooking utensils and foods have been presented and energy cost for cooking has been found to be as low as 4.75 USD/month, which is significantly lower (32%) than that of the grid-connected regular cooking system.

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Hollywood will be releasing a series of epic Bible films coming up in the next few years, beginning with Darren Aronofsky’s Noah. Other scheduled films are Son of God, Mary Mother of Christ (from the makers of The Passion of the Christ), Ridley Scott’s Exodus, and a few others in the works.
Some of us who grew up watching Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments might be getting pretty excited about what looks to be a seismic shift in Hollywood. But what’s really going on here? Has Hollywood become more conservative or more Christian? No. They’re just beginning to understand a little better how easy it is to make money off of Christians. Here’s a few reasons why we’re an easy target:
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The explosion of animated films following the success of Pixar indicates just how big a market there is for “family” entertainment. And I imagine much of that is due to American Christianity. Hollywood is apparently just making that connection, and they are rolling out a slew of Bible films hoping to cash in. And they probably will.
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One of my favorite parts of the month. Secret Recipe Club. I spent some time perusing my assignment Avocado Pesto. This is a great blog, full of really healthy recipes. Vicky is about to head out on a journey of a lifetime to Osaka, Japan with her boyfriend. They have a blog up for the adventure A Couple Travelers. What is so ironic, my niece and bf just left the U.S. this summer on a similar adventure to Japan. Perhaps they will all bump into each other on the other side of the world!
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When mankind first stared up at the stars, they made up stories about bears, archers, crabs, and Gods. Now when people look up at the stars, they see more possibilities. Some think “we ought to have some kind of planetary defense system up there.” Other people think “can satellites make the internet better?” And some wonder, “why don’t we have a moon base yet?” Well, we’re making progress on these things.
A few weeks ago we reported on the first wave Starlink satellites launched into orbit. Starlink is SpaceX’s venture to bring low-latency broadband internet to unserved or underserved areas around the globe. SpaceX overcame plenty of obstacles leading up to that launch, but even now with the first sixty satellites in orbit, Starlink is facing criticism over the impact of cluttering the sky with false stars.
Earlier this week, SpaceX had a different kind of launch — a new website for Starlink, which details what it is and how it works. The site says that after just six launches, Starlink should be able to provide coverage to the Northern US and Canada. By the twenty-fourth launch, Starlink will have about fifteen hundred satellites in orbit to provide internet to the populated world. The end goal is around twelve thousand satellites circling the Earth. By the end of this year alone, SpaceX is aiming to have up to six launches completed. With a plan to launch sixty satellites every six to eight weeks, even if they can’t hit six launches by the end of 2019, the amount of coverage Starlink would provide in 2020 puts them way ahead of most competitors.
As we’ve mentioned before, OneWeb is still currently the closest competition to Starlink, but Amazon’s Project Kuiper, Telesat, and Leosat are two to five years away from launching their satellites. When their internet services will be available is not yet clear, but it’s going to take a while. At that point, the sky is going to be FILLED with false stars. Astronomers already have beef with Starlink, raising questions over the ethics of a single company, let alone a handful of companies, changing the appearance of the sky.
The night after the Starlink launch, amateur astronomer Marco Langbrook captured footage from the Netherlands of the train of satellites taking orbit around the Earth. According to Forbes, Langbrook said, “What I had not anticipated was how bright the objects were and how spectacular a view it would be. It really was an incredible and bizarre view to see that whole train of objects in a line moving across the sky.”
Astronomers have raised questions about how the constellations of satellites will affect ground-based astronomy and add congestion to the orbital environment. A portion of the satellites will operate at or close to the frequencies radio astronomers use to study the cosmos. According to National Geographic, Lise van Zee, chair of the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Radio Frequencies, or CORF, said: “As a general principle, radio astronomy facilities are particularly vulnerable to satellite downlinks and to airborne uses, as radio telescopes cannot be protected from high-altitude transmissions through geographical shielding alone.” van Zee says that a coordination agreement regarding Starlink is in the works to balance the interests of science and telecom companies. Although both SpaceX and OneWeb are working out these agreements with the National Science Foundation and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Harvey List of the NRAO says they keep changing the parameters of their satellites without updating them.
Beyond radio astronomy, visual astronomers will have to deal with the satellites crossing through their research images. Musk has said before these satellites will barely be noticeable, but a few days after the launch, Musk addressed the Starlink team about reducing the reflectivity, tweeting that he “sent a note to Starlink team last week specifically regarding albedo reduction. We’ll get a better sense of the value of this when satellites have raised orbits & arrays are tracking to sun.”
The actual impact of Starlink isn’t known yet, but astronomers are preparing for streaky skies. There are currently about five thousand satellites orbiting the planet so astronomers have dealt with the occasional satellite before, but the amount is about to increase dramatically over the next few years. Starlink alone is going to triple the number. At night, the satellites are likely not going to be visible, because they will be in darkness with no sunlight to reflect, but before sunrise and after sunset, the thousands of satellites will be visible. When Starlink satellites flare their solar arrays to the right angle, the sunlight reflected toward the earth boosts their brightness close to the levels of Venus or Jupiter. Bruce Macintosh from Stanford University noted that one of the major telescopes projects of the next ten years, called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probably have anywhere between one and four Starlink satellites in each image within an hour or two of twilight.
In response to the concerns of cluttering the night sky, Musk tweeted, that the satellites will be in darkness when the stars are visible. He also pointed out, “there are already forty-nine hundred satellites in orbit, which people notice around zero percent of the time. Starlink won’t be seen by anyone unless looking very carefully & will have around zero impact on advancements in astronomy. We need to move telescopes to orbit anyway. Atmospheric attenuation is terrible.”
Some pointed out that helping the billions of people without internet access is worth the price of seeing the satellites twice a day. Musk agreed, tweeting “Potentially helping billions of economically disadvantaged people is the greater good. That said, we’ll make sure Starlink has no material effect on discoveries in astronomy. We care a great deal about science.” He also entertained the idea of sending Starlink telescopes into space as well.


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PDP to replace mediocre leaders, sanction corrupt members
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday announced a plan to restructure itself with a view to replacing the bad eggs among its leadership.
This position, which was made known at a meeting of the party’s national vice chairmen held in Abuja yesterday, came a few weeks to commencement of the party’s congresses and national convention scheduled to end on March 6, 2016.
Vowing to push out some of its leaders whose performance are no longer satisfactory to members, the PDP enjoined all its supporters to remain resolute and await the imminent repositioning of the party during which square pegs will be placed in square holes and justice and equity will prevail. “We reaffirm that mediocres will no longer be allowed to govern the affairs of the party. Power will now be returned to the people at the grassroots.”
The party also vowed to sanction any of its members convicted of corrupt practice in the course of the current anti-graft crusade by President Muhammadu Buhari. “Any member so convicted shall also face intra party disciplinary action and will be severely sanctioned accordingly. Those who are corrupt have left the party and those who left are indisputably mercenaries and Soldiers of Fortune”.
The statement issued at the meeting and signed by the Secretary of the Forum of PDP National Vice Chairmen and the Vice Chairman (South-South), Mr. Cairo Ojougboh, stated that the party endorsed the war being waged against corruption by Buhari. It, however, urged Buhari to ensure that the principle of Rule of Law where the accused is presumed to be innocent until found guilty is strictly adhered to. The statement urged the President to also extend the anti-graft war to some of his serving ministers and associates against whom the party noted more grievous allegations had been leveled.
The chairmen claimed that in spite of losing the presidential elections, PDP remained the largest party in Nigeria and Africa. The party further claimed that the vast majority of its members at the grassroots are innocent and not corrupt, just as it rejected the notion and tagging of it as a corrupt party.
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Common Sense Commentary: After the mass slaughter in Orlando, maybe America and the world will finally wake up to the Muslim Trojan Horse strategy? If so, "waking up" demands that we "follow up", "speak up" and "act up" if our President and Congress won't finally "stand up" to Muslim terrorism.
Even Snopes admits the open letter below is true and correctly attributed. But the Main Street News Networks won't touch it.
It seems to be a typical case of immature, fanatical, Muslim students who take it upon themselves to scream their insult and objection at a little isolated cartoon in Denmark long since forgotten by rational people. So they decide to raise a public protest on the campus of Michigan State University to stir the anger of fellow Muslims and teach non-Muslims a lesson. Their ridiculous effort was far more offensive to one of the Michigan State's professors, of Mechanical Engineering, who sent an e-mail to the Muslim Student's Association expressing his own First Amendment Free Speech.
Professor Indrek Wichman wrote the following....
Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest. I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceeded with your infantile "protests." If you do not like the values of the West — see the 1st Amendment — you are free to leave.
I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
I. S. Wichman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor Wichman tapped the "send" button and his email sailed across the Internet and hit the protesting young Muslims as if it were a ballistic missile and they were innocent kindergarten children. Their retaliation was more explosive than the good professors comments. They demanded Dr. Wichman be fired and mandatory diversity training be enforced on all faculty and a seminar be held on hate speech and discrimination for all freshmen. The Michigan chapter of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) was notified and demanded retribution. Apparently neither CAIR nor the students recognized Dr. Wichman's Constitutional right to his own free speech in answer to theirs. As usual, this Trojan Horse full of Muslims only recognize their own right to free speech but nobody elses who disagrees with them. They don't seem to see the double standard and contradiction of their inconsistent attitude. They can dish it out ... boy can they dish it out, but they can't even take a two inch square, one line cartoon in Denmark when they are in the U.S.
How long will it take for the rest of America to finally tell Muslims, "That's enough". Maybe somebody will start a movement called the "Wichman Patriots Fed-Up With The 'Ham' in Muhammad". But that might cause a World War.
At least for now the University is standing its ground and will neither punish Dr. Wichman nor "publicly" condemn his remarks. Pressure is probably being put on him relinquish his right to free speech and embrace Political Correctness. since he later said he if he knew his e-mail would cause such reaction, and be made public, he wouldn't have used the same strong language". I liked him better before he recanted that tidbit. What the leadership is missing in today's America has been revealed in Donald Trump's loose cannon, verbal machine gun rhetoric. The average American is starving for some outspoken, shoot from the shoulder, honest, all American attacks against this sort of intolerable nonsense. RB


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Jeeping on Phinney Mountain Rd
Scott, Mike and I out for a lil' winter wheeling on Phinney...it was a
great day till Scott spun his tires in the icy water and ripped a valve
stem off...they went to fix the tire and I tried to continue out but only
got a half mile or so and fell through some thick ice that made me sit
there till they got back to help me get out...
I HATE winter wheeling! lol
[SUBARU] 2014 Nürburgring 24h Rennen Digest Movie
The 42nd 24 Hours Nürburgring race was held in Nürburgring, Germany in
The "SUBARU WRX STI NBR Challenge 2014" race car developed on the new WRX
STI platform finished 4th in its class.
Bear witness to the SUBARU STI team's epic 24 hour battle.
600HP Subaru GETTIN' IT @ Powercruise Houston
This Summer at the 2013 Powercruise Houston, this 600hp AWD Subaru pretty
much mopped anything in eye sight! 1320Video went for a ride in this beast
as it whoope up on anything and everything!
Car built by http://www.awdtuning.com
Winter offroad fun
the same hill as in the previous video. this time in snow. had to have snow
chains for this to be exciting.
Subaru Off Road Hill Action
Tried 4 times to make it up the rutted part, then took the left side. When
I went into 1st the front end slid over into the ruts and I almost rolled
it. You can hear a rear axle snap when I hit the rut.
2009 Subaru Forester Off-Road Demonstration
The 2009 Forester is a very capable vehicle.
Check out the comments to see a bunch of people whining about wind noise
and picture quality on a video that i took spontaneously at a training
event with a crap camera that i happened to have with me.
What makes a Subaru a Subaru
I bought a 97 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport and the first thing i did was go
on a road trip to Long Beach Washington. I also did some offroading near in
Puyallup.My friend came too with his 03 Silverado.
Song: Strive by The Expendables
Step 2: How to Make One Subaru Out of Two Subarus - /MY LIFE as a RALLYIST
With $2000 in hand, there are plenty of options to fit the job as a
'rallycrosser'. However, with a little research and a ton of help from
Billy Petrow and Justin Hinman from Broken Motorsports, Ryan is able to
formulate a strategy for the perfect start up project. The Subaru Impreza
was known through the 90's and early 2000's as a dominate force in the
World Rally Championship. Even though there are currently no full factory
efforts anymore from Subaru in the WRC, they hold their own in lower-level
rallies. With AWD performance and the ability to have plenty of Subaru
experts on speed dial, Ryan found an '02 WRX platform to be the best
choice. In Step 2 of this series, Ryan takes the WRX shell and puts pretty
much an entire 2006 Subaru Impreza wagon driveline in it, making for a
perfect daily driven rallycross setup, and a perfect segue into the Open
Light series of Rally America in due time.
To learn more about Alan Wilzig, the man who built a 1.1 mile private
racetrack in his front yard, watch our Jalopnik on /DRIVE documentary:
Subaru TT Challenge 2
Subaru returns to the world's most formidable racetrack, the Isle of Man TT
Course, with the all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI to set a new lap record.

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An expectant Halle Berry stepped out with fiancé Olivier Martinez and some friends for lunch at Geoffrey’s in Malibu, Calif. on Sunday (May 19). Showing off her pregnancy glow, Halle wore a stylish gray maxi dress showcasing her growing baby bump.
On Thursday, the Oscar winner joined pals for dinner at Rivabella in West Hollywood. The actress wore a black top and baggy pants, paired with a stylish graphic blazer and zippered black boots.
The X-Men star, 46, recently opened up about her surprise second pregnancy.
“This has been the biggest surprise of my life, to tell you the truth,” she said. “Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it’s been a big surprise and the most wonderful.”
Halle is already mom to 5-year-old daughter Nahla from her previous relationship with Gabriel Aubry.View Slideshow »»


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A new paper straw has been developed by Tetra Pak to accompany its beverage cartons in a bid to help offer packaging that's made from more plant-based materials.
The straw itself is crafted from FSC-certified paper and intended to be recycled alongside the rest of the carton, which puts a focus on convenience for consumers to appreciate. The straw will be initially used on the brand's beverage and dairy products for kids including the Tetra Brik Aseptic 200 Base and the Tetra Brik Aseptic 200 Base Crystal.
The new packaging innovation was explained by President and CEO of Tetra Oak Adolfo Orive who said, "We are pleased to have developed a paper straw that is fully functional and meets internationally recognised food safety standards. This is an important step in our vision to deliver a package made entirely from plant-based packaging materials, contributing to a low-carbon circular economy."

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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -Perfectly good books being sent through the mail are still being trashed.
The Imagination Library, set up by Dolly Parton and Gov. Bill Haslam's Books from Birth Foundation, works to put books in the hands of young students learning to read.
Those books, which are sent through the mail, sometimes go to the wrong address. Because it's not cheap to "return to sender," the postal service puts the books in the dumpster.
"We have all these books we can re-purpose," Haslam said. "We can get them into the right peoples' hands if they just won't destroy them in the meantime."
In a statement, the U.S. Postal Service said, "This practice would constitute illegal discrimination among users of the mail, which is prohibited by federal statute."
Additionally, the supremacy clause of the U.S. Constitution provides that states may not regulate the action of the federal government in a manner inconsistent with federal law.
Haslam said his administration is working with federal colleagues to see if a compromise can be reached.


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End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients requiring renal replacement therapy, either by dialysis or transplantation, are at increased risk for developing cancer and at four- to five-fold increased risk of developing renal cancer in their native kidneys.1-3
ESRD-associated renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and competing medical comorbidities, principally cardiovascular (CV), are a source of morbidity and mortality. New evidence also implicates chronic kidney disease (CKD) as placing patients at greater risk for developing cancer compared with the general population, and at a greater risk for developing RCC in particular.
Nephropathological changes are commonly observed in the non-neoplastic kidney at the time of nephrectomy for RCC, and correlate with a higher incidence of CKD in RCC patients than in the general population. It is unknown whether these changes are carcinogenic or if renal dysfunction increases circulating serum carcinogens or causes immune inhibition leading to RCC.
An estimated 60,920 new cases and 13,120 deaths from RCC occurred in the U.S. in 2011. RCC is increasing at a rate of approximately 3% per year. Compared with 1971, this represents a fivefold increase in incidence and two-fold increase in mortality. Associated risk factors include hypertension, smoking, obesity, and diabetes, all of which can affect kidney function alone or in combination. Epidemiologic evidence suggests an increase in all stages of RCC.4,5 Approximately 30% to 40% of RCC patients will either present with or later develop metastatic disease.
The problem of kidney cancer
The widespread use of the modern abdominal imaging (CT, MRI, and ultrasound) over the last 20 years, usually ordered to evaluate nonspecific abdominal and musculoskeletal complaints or during unrelated cancer care, has changed the profile of the typical RCC patient from one with a massive, symptomatic tumor at presentation to one with a small, asymptomatic, renal mass (<4 cm) incidentally discovered in 70% of the cases.6 A documented increase in incidence in African Americans without an increase in RCC-specific mortality has raised the possibility that RCC may be less aggressive in this population.7
RCC-specific survival rates have not significantly improved over the last 15 years. The aggressive treatment of smaller tumors appears insufficient to offset increasingly virulent tumors presenting as localized or metastatic disease.8 A survival rate of 90% or greater, depending on the tumor histology, is expected for small tumors whether partial nephrectomy (PN) or radical nephrectomy (RN) is performed.9,10
Renal cortical tumors are members of a complex family with unique histopathology, cytogenetics, familial and hereditary syndromes, and variable metastatic potentials. Approximately 20% of surgically resected renal masses are benign lesions (i.e., angiomyolipoma, oncocytoma, metanephric adenoma, or hemorrhagic cyst), 25% are indolent tumors (papillary, chromophobe carcinoma) with limited metastatic potential, and 54% are the potentially malignant conventional clear-cell carcinoma that accounts for 90% of the metastatic renal tumors.11,12


The management of Plateau United has concluded plans to fortify the team with additional six players during the ongoing mid-season transfer window.
The club’s General Manager, Pius Hemwan who confirmed this to SportingLife, said the new signing is necessary so as to enable the club compete very well during the second round.
“Although, we appreciate the contribution of every player in the team but the truth is that we will have to allow some players to go while bringing in additional six players to boost the squad. The second stanza will be very competitive and we want to come out very well at the end of the season,” Hemwan told SportingLife.
The Hemwan also praised the team’s performance in the first round.
He said: “It is not an easy task to come from the lower division and play with big clubs. We tried our best in the first round and we understand the terrain very well now. We will try our best to better our performances in the second stanza. We have identified our problems and we will try and solve it before we resume for second round.”


Fairview Microwave has announced the expansion of its hermetic adapters and connectors product line. These connectors and adapters meet the rigorous demands of military/defense customers and are engineered for environments that require a rugged seal.
The new line features hermetically sealed terminal connectors and bulkhead-mount adapters that are tailored to provide reliable sealing in extreme conditions. With diverse connector options that include BNC, N, TNC, SMA, 2.92 mm and 2.4 mm, they offer flexibility and compatibility with various applications.
Adhering to MIL-STD-348B connector interfaces, these products ensure the quality and reliability that the defense industry demands. Furthermore, they are built to perform in a wide range of temperatures, allowing for use in harsh environments.
The benefits of these advanced connectors and adapters are numerous. They are designed specifically for areas requiring a rugged seal, offering robust construction. The product line also has top-of-the-line electrical performance, standing up to even the most demanding tasks. Offering leak rates of 1x10-6 and 1x10-8 helium per second, these components guarantee reliability and efficiency.
“Our new line of hermetically sealed RF connectors and adapters shows our commitment to providing innovative solutions for the mil/defense sectors,” said Product Line Manager Kevin Hietpas. “By combining rugged construction with superior electrical performance, we are ensuring that our customers have access to products that excel in extreme environments.”
Fairview Microwave’s new hermetically sealed RF connectors and adapters are in stock and available for same-day shipping.


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Ali Berlow – Island Grown Initiatives & Edible VineyardThu 05 Apr 2012
Story by Food Revolution Team
Ali Berlow is editor and owner of Edible Vineyard magazine and founder and former executive director of Island Grown Initiative - a non-profit dedicated to supporting local farmers and raising awareness about the importance of local food for health, environment, economies and community. Ali’s work all stems from wanting to feed her family good, clean and fair food.
Ali is, in her own words, “just a housewife”. Yet over the last six years, she has created something remarkable on Martha’s Vineyard, involving the local community in food education, sustainable growing and improving the farm-to-plate supply chain to enable people to eat local foods.
Island Grown Schools
Ali launched Island Grown Schools (IGS) with Noli Taylor in '07 by building school gardens and supporting cafeterias and classrooms with good clean food and agriculture education. Island Grown Schools also teaches children to become wise eaters with knowledge about where good healthy food comes.
From the very beginning IGI was opened up to all members of the community: parents, teachers, students, administration, farmers, chefs, school staff, nurses, cafeteria directors, public health officials, principals. Everyone has an opinion about school lunch, and Island Grown Schools provided the chance for them to do something about it.
In 2007, IGI launched its poultry program by building and supporting a humane mobile poultry processing trailer - that provides clean, safe, fair wage, accessible, affordable, size-appropriate, permitted, on-farm humane slaughter and processing of poultry.
The implementation of a gleaning program in 2009 has since rescued literally tons of pounds of fresh produce from local farms and distributed it as donations to local school cafeterias.
Ali blogs on Huffington Post about the intersections of food, community and spirituality. Her first book about humane mobile slaughterhouse for poultry, published by Storey Publishing will be released in spring, 2013. Find her on Twitter: @AliBerlow
Find out more about Ali and her great work on Martha’s Vineyard here.
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400 self-advocates from every region of the world will come together next week to share their ideas for what needs to change to make an inclusive world a reality.
Self-advocates are people with a learning disability who speak up for themselves on their rights and work for inclusion.
The summit will form part of a wider World Congress in Birmingham, the 17th edition of the annual event.
The Congress is organised by Inclusion International – a network of people with intellectual disabilities and their families – and is sponsored by UK-based learning disability charity Mencap.
"People with a learning disability have the same rights just like anyone else," said self-advocate Senada Halilčević, the Vice-President of Inclusion Europe. "The right to education, the right to live independently and be included in the community, to have a job, to take part in social activities and develop friendships and relationships."
"There are still so many areas that need improving, and the World Congress is a powerful place where things can happen."
Jan Tregelles, Chief Executive of Mencap, added: "The Congress offers a powerful platform for people with a learning disability to not only learn more about how they can change their local communities but share their experiences to inspire others."
The event runs from May 30 - June 1. Find out more.

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Q.red tip photinia pruning
I purchased 9 red tip photinias with multiple branches from the base. How do I prune into one trunk to look like a tree? Do I prune just after last frost? I live in north Texas and will be planting them this week.
Certified GKH Gardening Expert
I would wait till after last frost to prune.
To train the plants into a tree shape, choose a few string leader stems and remove all of the weaker and smaller stems from both the base and the small lateral branches from the sides of the leader branches up to where you want the canopy to start. This article will also outline how to do this in the "Shaping Tree-Form Shrubs" section:


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Factors related to the success rate of pediatric extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital: an 8-year single-center experience
African Journal of Urology volume 27, Article number: 92 (2021)
ESWL is still considered as the first favorable therapeutic option for urinary stone disease with acceptable effectivity. However, factors associated with favorable outcome have not been widely studied in pediatrics due to the small number of urinary stone prevalence. The aim of this study is to evaluate the factors associated with the success rate of pediatric ESWL in our center according to immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rates.
This is a retrospective cohort study of children less than 18 years who had ESWL for urolithiasis from January 2008 until August 2015. Patient’s characteristics including age, gender, BMI, stone location, stone length, stone burden, stone opacity, and number of ESWL sessions were gathered from the medical record. Nutritional status was determined according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BMI curve. The outcome of this study was the factors related to the success rate in pediatric ESWL.
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy was done for 36 patients and 39 renal units (RUs) with mean age of 13.7 ± 4.3 years old, height of 1480 ± 16.0 cm, and BMI of 20.0 ± 3. Of 36 patients included, 39 renoureteral units (RUs) and 46 ESWL sessions were recorded. The mean overall treatment was 1.2 ± 0.5 sessions with mean stone length of 11.1 ± 6.3 mm and stone burden of 116.6 ± 130.3 mm2. Within 3 months of follow-up, we recorded that the overall 3-month success rate was 100%, while the overall 3-month stone-free rate was 66.7%. Stone length (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001), stone perpendicular length (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001), and stone burden (p < 0.001 and p = 0.001) were found to be significantly associated with immediate success and 3-month stone-free status, respectively.
ESWL is an effective and safe modality to treat pediatric urolithiasis cases. Stone length, stone perpendicular length, and stone burden were found to be associated with immediate success and 3-month stone-free status after pediatric ESWL treatment.
Pediatric stone disease is a somewhat rare condition and often caused by metabolic disturbance . It counts only 2–3% globally with prevalence ranging from 1:1000 to 1:7600 in various geographic regions in the USA alone [1,2,3]. The incidence of pediatric stone disease has been progressively increasing in these past few decades, with some epidemiological studies refer this phenomenon as a “stone wave” . Most of the cases were documented from developing countries including Pakistan, India, Turkey, and certain eastern countries [1, 4] .
Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL/SWL) is still considered as the first favorable therapeutic option for most cases in both pediatrics and adults due to its minimal invasive nature. First reported by Newman et al. , ESWL use for pediatric stone cases was astonishingly effective, with low complication, and shorter length of hospitalization compared to other treatments [1, 3]. ESWL has been reported to be effective for stone sized ≤ 20 mm or ≤ 300 m2, with stone-free rate ranging from 67 to 93% (short term) and 57–92% (long term) [5,6,7]. The reported retreatment rate was 13.9–53.9%, and the rate of treatment needing auxiliary procedure needed was between 7 and 33% [5, 6].
The success of ESWL can be reflected from the stone-free status that is defined as residual stone fragments of less than 4 mm in length in the vertical axis and width in the horizontal axis or the absence of any stone fragments on the follow-up plain abdominal radiograph . Stone-free status after ESWL treatment is usually evaluated periodically for at least 3 months after the first treatment; with the stone-free rate as high as 70–100% . The success rate of ESWL in pediatric is higher compared with its adult counterpart due to the relatively smaller stone volume, softer stone composition, smaller body volume, and higher ureteral compliance to accommodate spontaneous stone passage [4, 6, 7]. Certain factors were reported to affect the success rate of ESWL, including stone burden, lower pole localization, infundibular length, infundibulopelvic angle (more than 45°), and stone hardness or composition [4, 7]. The aim of this study is to evaluate the factors associated with the success rate of pediatric ESWL in our center.
This is a retrospective cohort study of 36 pediatric patients (16 boys and 20 girls) who had ESWL for urolithiasis. Pediatric patients were defined as patients with age ≤ 18 years . Data from January 2008 until August 2015 were retrospectively analyzed. Sample size was determined pragmatically, on the basis of available patients in the medical records. This study has been approved by Ethics Committee. The authors confirm the availability of, and access to, all original data reported in this study. No particular exclusion criteria were applied for the patients in this study.
Body mass index (BMI) was calculated and categorized using special tools from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and was classified into certain category: underweight, healthy, overweight, and obese . The diagnosis of stone disease was made through pre-ESWL radiologic evaluation using CT-Scan. Stone burden was then calculated by multiplying the stone maximum length by its maximum perpendicular length . We also classified the stone burden into low (< 100 mm2) and high (> 100 mm2) stone burden before the measurement . We also include stone opacity, anatomical location, and laterality, determined through pre-ESWL radiologic evaluation. The outcome of this study was the factors related to the success rate of pediatric ESWL.
2.2 ESWL technique
Since 2008, our institution has been using Richard Wolf Piezolith 3000, a third-generation piezoelectric lithotripter with incorporated lithotripter-fluoroscopy (Lithoarm) and ultrasonography. This lithotripter can be adjusted continuously to penetrate up to 165 mm [13, 14]. All stones were then re-evaluated using intra-ESWL ultrasonography or fluoroscopy.
The shockwave power and total shocks were set and adapted according to the patients’ age, body weight, comfort, and stone response. The procedures were usually started at power level 1 (0.03 mJ/mm2) and progressed to the higher power level gradually depending on the desired stone fragmentation response, with a maximum power level of 20 (1.6 mJ/mm2) . The use of sedations or analgesics was considered necessary depending on the patients’ compliance and response to the pain caused. Analgesics used in most cases were suppository Profenid (ketoprofen), although in some cases additional sedations with adjusted dose of propofol were used. Successful ESWL treatment was defined as complete absence of stone fragments in imaging modalities (stone-free status) or presence of clinically insignificant residual fragments sized less than 4 mm [11, 16,17,18]. Patients requiring repetitive ESWL procedure for the same stone were defined as retreatment . The immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate were then calculated to determine the ESWL treatment success rate. Radiological evaluation was done 3 months after ESWL treatments to evaluate the stone-free status. The use of auxiliary supportive and curative procedures was also recorded. These auxiliary procedures include double-J (DJ) stent, ureteroscopy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), etc. [11, 13]. All ESWL procedures were done in an outpatient setting, and patients were usually discharged the same day as the procedures completed.
2.3 Statistical analysis
Patients, stones, and ESWL technical data characteristics and demographics were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Descriptive data are presented with mean and standard deviation for normal distribution, while median and minimum–maximum value for abnormal distribution. All categorical data were then analyzed using Chi-square, Fisher exact, and Cramer’s V test; while numerical data were analyzed using Mann–Whitney U test and unpaired t-test. p value < 0.05 considered as statistically significant.
A total of 36 patients and 39 renoureteral units were treated in 46 ESWL sessions. The demographics and characteristics data of the patients can be seen in Table 1. Stones were commonly found in the renal (23 RUs), with the laterality to the right side (21 RUs) and in the form of radiopaque (27 RUs). The maximum stone length and burden treated with ESWL were 28 mm and 500 mm2, respectively.
The mean ESWL power and shocks used for all cases were 1.31 mJ/mm2 and 4274.3 shocks, respectively. Maximum power at level 20 (1.6 mJ/mm2) with total shocks more than 4000 was recorded in 3 patients with ureteral stone; 1 patient aged less 10 years. Ketoprofen suppositories were considered quite sufficient to control the pain in most cases (29 RUs). There were 2 patients aged less than 12 years old that cooperative enough to undergo the procedure without additional sedation.
The only pre-ESWL and post-ESWL supportive auxiliary procedure recorded was DJ stent insertion, of which was performed for ESWL-related steinstrasse. There were 4 patients with history of PCNL procedures and 1 patient with past ureteroscopy procedure few months prior to ESWL treatment that had pre-ESWL DJ stent. Post-ESWL DJ stent insertions were done in most cases with stone burden more than 100 mm2 (9 RUs). In contrast, none of post-ESWL procedures were recorded within 3 months after ESWL treatment. The overall retreatment rate and overall immediate stone-free rate were 17.9% and 82.1%, respectively. There was one patient needing total three ESWL sessions (two additional retreatment sessions) to achieve a successful result. Within 3 months of follow-up, we recorded that the overall long-term successful rate was 100%, while the overall 3-month stone-free rate was 66.7%. Summary of ESWL technique and outcomes can be seen in Table 2.
The significant factors associated with immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate are stone location (kidney or ureter) and burden category (≤ 100 mm2 or > 100 mm2). The immediate stone-free rate was higher for the ureteral stone, reaching up to 100%, while the immediate stone-free rate for the kidney stone was 69.6% (p = 0.015). The 3-month stone-free rate significantly decreased in kidney and ureteral stones with the value of 47.8% and 93.8%, respectively (p = 0.003). Cases with stone burden of ≤ 100 mm2 had significantly higher immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate as compared with stone burden > 100 mm2, with the value of 96.3% versus 45.5% (p = 0.001) and 85.7% vs. 18.2% (p = 0.001), respectively.
Subgroup analysis on the stone anatomical location showed no significant difference for stones located on inferior calyx in terms of both immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate, but with no statistical difference, reaching up to 100% (p = 0.128) and 75% (p = 0.195). Moreover, immediate stone-free rate on distal and proximal ureteral stones also showed the same favorable numbers, with the value of 100% on both groups, while the 3-month stone-free rate on the proximal ureteral stones was lower, with the value of 85.7% (p = 0.242). The results of the statistical analysis are shown in Tables 3 and 4.
The stone length and stone perpendicular length in the immediate free group were significantly smaller than the not-success group, with the median difference of 13 mm and 9 mm, respectively (both p < 0.001); these differences persist until the 3-month follow-up, with the median difference of 9.5 mm in 3-month stone-free status group and 5 mm in the not-stone-free group (both p < 0.001). Stone burden on the immediate free group was significantly smaller than the not-success group, with the median difference of 356 mm2 (p < 0.001), while on the 3-month stone-free group showed the same result, with the median difference of 131 mm2 (p = 0.001). Statistical analysis result on numerical data is shown in Table 5.
ESWL treatments in pediatric population have shown a great efficacy, even higher than in adults . Demirkesen et al.  found that the overall immediate postoperative success rate for pediatric ESWL was 93%. The result on immediate stone-free rate was lower (82.1%) compared to other study, yet the long-term success rate was considerably high (100%). The 3-month stone-free rate was 67.7%, while the rest were classified as CIRF (23.3%). However, this result is still on the range of current recommendation value (57–92%) . The retreatment rate in our study was 17.9%, which happened due to the relatively low energy delivered to produce minimal pain . It was in accordance with the current recommendation value (13.9–53.9%) .
Boys are more likely to have urolithiasis compared to girls, with a ratio of 1.4:1 to 2.1:1 . However, in this study, we found that urolithiasis patients treated with ESWL were predominantly girls, with ratio of 1.25:1. Since our study more concerned on ESWL treatments on pediatric population, our data did not represent the overall actual prevalence of pediatric urolithiasis in our institution.
Various study showed that age was not a significant factor contributing in pediatric ESWL success rate, as well as in our study [20,21,22]. Aksoy et al.  reported that patients aged ≤ 5 years had the most favorable stone-free rate, while those aged 11–14 years showed the poorest stone-free rate. However, Goktas et al.  reported that patients aged less than 6 years were significantly had higher stone-free rate after first ESWL session on the renal stones compared to patients aged 7–15 years (67.6% vs. 38.7%, p = 0.004). Furthermore, recent study from El-Assmy et al.  found that age was a significant factor on the formation of steinstrasse, particularly patients aged ≤ 4 years. These population were reported to have more than twofold risk to develop steinstrasse. El-Assmy argued that children aged ≤ 4 years were less active compared to the older population and considered could affect the stone passage .
In this study, patients’ weight, height, and BMI do not show any significant difference. However, all patients known to be categorized as obese and overweight showed excellent results with immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate reaching up to 75–100%. Akca et al.  reported that obesity and overweight on pediatric were not significant risk factor affecting the efficacy of ESWL treatment. It has been known that skin-to-stone distance (SSD) represents better and correlated with ESWL success rather than BMI [26, 27]. High efficacy on obese and overweight pediatric population is thought to be caused by the SSD that is still on the lithotripter focal point range [18, 25].
The lithotripter that we used was a third-generation piezoelectric lithotripter that can induce a high peak pressure onto a small focal area with remarkably little pain . It is widely known as “anesthesia-free” lithotripter due to its small focus that would reduce the damage to surrounding renal parenchyma [3, 14]. Hence, all the procedures were done in an outpatient setting and did not need any general anesthesia. We used analgesics with ketoprofen suppository and additional sedation with Propofol for particular patients considered too young or not cooperative.
In our study, stone opacity did not show any significant difference to ESWL success rate, which is in accordance with other studies [4, 26, 28]. Nevertheless, El-Assmy  found that stone density in Hounsfield units (HU) is an important prognostic factor for renal stone clearance on pediatric ESWL. The study reported that stone density > 600 HU was a significant predictor for ESWL failure . Previous study by McAdams et al.  also described that a stone attenuation less than 1000 HU significantly predicted the successful outcome of single session ESWL, regardless its size.
Our study showed that stone location was a significant factor associated with pediatric ESWL success rate. Ureteral stone significantly had better results, both in immediate stone-free rate (100% vs. 69.6%, p = 0.015) and 3-month stone-free rate (93.8% vs. 47.8%, p = 0.003), compared to renal stones. On the contrary, Hammad et al.  reported that there was no significant difference between stone-free rates on the ureteral and renal stones; ureteral stones only showed a slight superiority (84% vs 81%, p = 0.74). Another study from Badawy et al.  showed that renal stones had higher overall stone-free rates at 3 months compared to ureteral stone, although statistical analysis between groups was not conducted (90.4% vs. 76.6%).
Our finding on stone anatomical location subgroup analysis showed that neither kidney stones group nor ureteral stones group were a significant factors related to the immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate. Likewise, most of previous studies showed there was no statistically significant result between stone anatomical location and pediatric ESWL success or stone-free rate [3, 16, 19, 26, 29, 30]. Nonetheless, Lu et al.  reported a significantly higher stone-free rate in the proximal ureter rather than in middle or distal ureter, while in the various locations of renal stones, no statistical significance was found. El-Nahas et al.  also found that the calyceal site of the stone was an independent risk factor for not being stone-free after pediatric ESWL treatment. Although not statistically significant, inferior calyx stones had the most favorable results compared to other locations in kidney, on both the immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate. Lower-pole stones have been reported to tend to be more refractory to ESWL and have relatively lower stone-free rate compared to other locations [4, 18, 31]. However, several other recent studies showed that lower-pole ESWL success rate within one session and stone-free rate at 3 months could be considerably high, reaching up to 80% and 85–100%, respectively [15, 23, 32].
Stone size has been reported to be one of the most significant factors predicting success rate of pediatric ESWL [1, 4, 17, 26, 30, 32, 33]. From our results, low burden stone significantly had better stone-free rate, in both immediate (96.3%) and 3-month follow-up (85.7%, p = 0.01). Wadhwa et al.  reported that stone-free rates for stone burdens ≤ 100 mm2 were reported reaching up to 94%, while dropped significantly to 70% when the burdens increased to > 200 mm2.
A recent multivariate analysis study showed that stone length was the most important risk factor for low stone-free rates on pediatric ESWL, compared to the stone location. It is reported that any increase of 1 mm in stone length was associated with an increased risk of residual stone fragments by 1.123-folds. Based on size and location, the study then recommended pediatric ESWL should be done for stone sized up to 24 mm in renal pelvis; up to 15 mm in upper or middle calyceal; and up to 11 mm in lower calyceal . It is in accordance with our results which showed that higher stone length has a significant stone-free rate outcome compared to lower stone length (p < 0.001).
Our study has several limitations. First, our study has small sample size relatively compared with the reported prevalence of pediatric stone diseases in the general population. In addition, our study did not document the periprocedural complications, as might be reported in Clavien–Dindo classifications.
From our report, we conclude that stone length, stone perpendicular length, stone burden, and stone location were the significant factors related to the success rate of pediatric ESWL based on the immediate stone-free and 3-month stone-free status. The overall immediate stone-free rate and 3-month stone-free rate were 82.1% and 67.7%, respectively. After 3-month follow-up, all of the ESWL procedures were considered successful and none of the auxiliary curative procedures were done. ESWL was shown as a favorable modality to treat pediatric urolithiasis cases.
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Satjakoesoemah, A.I., Alfarissi, F., Wahyudi, I. et al. Factors related to the success rate of pediatric extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital: an 8-year single-center experience. Afr J Urol 27, 92 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12301-021-00187-1
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- Stone-free rate
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