... contributing ICUs combined) crystalloid was less likely to be administered to patients in contributing ICUs in China, Great Britain and Sweden, but more likely to be administered to patients in contributing ... colloid was more likely to be administered to patients in contributing ICUs in China and Great Britain and less likely to be administered to patients in contributing ICUs in New Zealand and the USA ... administered were analysed using generalized estimating equations Initially each factor of interest was examined separately to determine if there was an association with the type of fluid administered...
... reasonable accuracy In a recent study, Cho et al [12] investigated the effect of a gap in the inclined rib on heat transfer in a square duct and reported that a gap in the inclined rib accelerates ... the continuous rib The present investigation was therefore, taken up to determine the optimum width of a gap in the inclined rib to form discrete rib This study will help in determining the gap ... working in the area of experimental and computational fluid mechanics and his special interest is in the field of turbomachines especially hydro-dynamic pumps and turbines He is also working...
... Applied Modeling of Language Variability In Proceedings of the PASCAL Workshop of Learning Methods for Text Understanding and Mining M.C De Marneffe, B MacCartney, and C.D Manning 2006 Generating Typed ... Generalization In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2010), Saarbr¨ cken, Germany u J.R Finkel, T Grenager, and C Manning 2005 Incorporating Non-local Information into ... issues include identifying, and properly managing: (1) Text portions in P1 and P2 that express the same meaning (bi-directional entailment) In such cases no information has to migrate across P1...
... they use in- domain training data that we not include in our setting We briefly highlight some interesting features of these results In the small vocabulary cross- domain setting, for GDLM-LIN, we ... 2008 Ngram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross- Domain Language Model Estimation In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 829–838 ... this second point in constructing our language model, an advantage of our approach over subsampling is that we use our entire training corpus, and in so doing compromise between minimizing errors...
... d with appropriate masculine/feminine indicators (Jayez, 1982) The issues are not whether human brains work in a universal fashion, but instead raise questions of how interpreted levels of representation, ... meanings spreading parts of FIRING-INFORMATION-PROPAGATION: Asynchronous activation propagation that occurs when information reaches threshold and fires I t can be INHIBITORY and EXCITATORY in ... and mark masculine, feminine, or plural (Gross, 1977; Goffic and McBride, 1975) And furthermore, these same articles often are not translated into meaning preserving sentences in English An example...
... Frederking, R.D Brown, Yibing Geng, and Danny Lee 1997 Translingual information retrieval : A comparative evaluation In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ... types of preprocessing in use by many monolingual IR engines: stemming (or morphological analysis) of documents and queries reduces the number of distinct words in the document index, while query ... translation algorithm: since its training data was preprocessed identically, a translation engine trained to produce language in a particular style of morphing is well suited for matching translated documents...
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... strong in the gas-like region, increasing significantly with increasing density; plateaulike in the near-critical density region, beginning at ρr ∼ 0.5 and extending to ρr ∼ 1.5; and again increasing ... transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing ... solute–solvent interactions in supercritical fluids, the Py values were found to increase with increasing density in a nonlinear manner (2,3,40–43) For example, Sun et al reported Py values in supercritical...
... any patented invention or copyrighted work that may in any way be related thereto PRINTED IN T H E UNITED STATES OF AMERICA In Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties in the Chemical Industry; Storvick, ... remains to be seen whether this conference results in any permanent interchange of ideas between academic and industrial engineers and whether the ideas expressed influence research in the coming ... was founded in 1974 to provide a medium for publishing symposia quickly in book form The format of the SERIES parallels that of the continuing ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES except that in order to...
... tissue cube were investigated using infrared imaging To the best of our knowledge, there has been no study in literature regarding the infrared anisotropy in the regular/parallel /cross sections ... no infrared anisotropy in (c) the axis of the alpha-helix [26], as shown in Figure 7a Since the amide bonds are fixed in the peptide chains and the fibril contains three identical chains in a ... given in Figure 7, which incorporates the tilting angles of the transitional moments of amide bonds in collagen fibrils as well as the effect of polarization in infrared imaging It is well known in...
... = Pipe cross sectional area at point v1 = Average fluid velocity at point 1 = Specific weight of fluid at point A = Pipe cross- sectional area at point v =Average fluid velocity at point = ... following problem came from the book of (Amyx et al., 1960) During a routine permeability test, the following data were obtained www.intechopen.com Steady State Compressible Fluid Flow in Porous ... porous media The compressibility of a fluid (C f) is defined as: www.intechopen.com Steady State Compressible Fluid Flow in Porous Media C f 473 d dp (13) Combination of equations (12) and (13...
... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/4/R148 system may have an underlying role in both skin [20] and joint involvement The potential proinflammatory function in joints of IL-22, a cytokine of the IL-10 family, has been suggested ... cytokines, such as IL-22 and IL-17, could, moreover, induce keratinocyte proliferation and skin inflammation [19,20] Biomarkers have been used as surrogate treatment endpoints in preliminary, ... IA injection from all 14 knees There was a decrease in SE in the knees in which aspiration following IA-E injection was possible In 10 knees the effusion disappeared before the fifth IA-E injection...
... resulting increase in SVITD following fluid loading (Fig 2b) These findings are in accordance with those of other studies [7,13] and emphasize the importance of TEE in detecting acute changes in ... changes in the remaining preload-indicating variables and ∆SVITD, suggesting that increased cardiac preload is more reliably reflected by CEDV index than by CVP, PCWP, or LVEDA index Some investigators ... response to fluid administration [18] In contrast to these findings, Wagner and Leatherman [22] reported a positive response to volume loadR229 ing in a number of patients with an RVEDV index above...
... immediately after fluid infusion in both groups (Table 1) Hypertonic saline infusion induced a sustained increase in serum sodium levels (Table 1) Discussion Using an intravenous injection of live ... stabilization, baseline (T0) measurements were obtained (Figure 1) The infusion of E coli, in a dose of 1.2 × 1010 cfu/kg, was initiated and maintained for 30 minutes in all groups (T30) After 30 minutes ... to maintain arterial partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) at 40 ± mmHg A urinary bladder catheter was placed for urinary drainage During surgical preparation, a heating pad was used to maintain normothermia,...
... Post-resuscitation syndrome Acute poisoning Vasopressive agents Norepinephrine 10 Epinephrine 11 Norepinephrine (µg/kg per minute) Epinephrine (µg/kg per minute) 0.6 (0.3–0.7) 0.4 (0.3–1) between ... Twice over two minutes at one-minute intervals, in the supine position (Base 1) Four times over four minutes at one-minute intervals, during PLR (lower limbs were lifted in a straight manner by an ... dysfunction, and/or increased arterial blood lactate, in the absence of a contraindication for a fluid challenge Contraindication for a fluid challenge was defined as a life-threatening hypoxemia and...
... pattern as in blood but surprisingly continued to increase throughout the study period in both burned and uninjured skin It seems that insulin resistance continues locally, in this case in the dermis, ... situation is beginning to normalise The reason for the trauma-induced insulin resistance is not fully understood, but increasing evidence in skeletal muscle indicates a low interstitial insulin concentration, ... showing median (interquartile) pyruvate concentrations in microdialysate from days one to four Open boxes indicate uninjured skin and controls; shaded boxes indicate burned skin Controls, n = Uninjured...
... treatment of infectious diseases in intensive care units Lancet Infect Dis 2005, 5:305-312 The information obtained from the model may be useful in supplementing a clinician's knowledge base and intuition ... inductive knowledge base from domain expertise in pathological physiological processes and available ICU literature may provide a better tool in assisting clinicians in making decisions for individual ... a minimum period of six hours during their first 24 hours in the ICU and whose total fluid intake and output were recorded The distribution of the total fluid intake during the second day in...
... shown in Fig It can be presumed that the expected total intestinal fluid volume after ingestion of a hypertonic drink is slightly less than the sum of the ingested volume and the intestinal fluid ... starts in the stomach through mixing with the gastric juice, but a combination of fluid secretion and absorption of water and solutes in the small bowel maintains isotonicity of the intestinal ... traffic into the intestinal lumen [4] Second in diarrheal patients, hypertonic drinks with a high sugar concentration can worsen diarrhea, as they draw water out of the body and into the intestine...