... intravenous infusion) This is a crucial issue when patients must be transferred And, as in our case, the transfer involved an ambulance trip to the airport, an airplane flight and another ambulance ... pulmonary hypertension in a pediatric cardiac transplant candidate prior to transplantation J Heart Lung Transplant 2001, 20:785-788 Gomberg-Maitland M, Olschewski H: Prostacyclin therapies for ... failure and severe pulmonary hypertension, stabilized with the help of an epoprostenol infusion and was safely transferred for treatment at a tertiary centre This is an interim method Grech and Grixti...
... groups (PAC, no PAC, and no PAC +/some other CO monitor) was very similar, suggesting that either few patients in the no PAC +/- other CO monitor group actually received a CO monitor, or that no monitor ... output had an impact on mortality This post-hoc analysis should hopefully further delineate the utility of CO monitoring by any means (Harvey, personal communication) PAC- Man was an effectiveness, ... D, Young D, Rowan K: Assessment of the clinical effectiveness of pulmonaryartery catheters in management of patients in intensive care (PAC- Man): a randomised controlled trial Lancet 2005, 366:472-477...
... 2.1%, 1.0%, and 4.3% for the splanchnic group and 4.6%, 0.1%, 3.8%, and 4.7% for the non-splanchnic group There was no significant different distribution of (ScvO - SvO ) between survivors and non-survivors ... assessed by the mean bias and 95% limits of agreement ([mean bias ± 1.96] × standard deviation) as described by Bland and Altman [15] The c test was used to establish significance between the ... in MH and helped to draft the manuscript ECB and NDH participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript HG advised in statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript...
... Regional Transport Company of Sfax (SORETRAS), National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS), ANME and SAGAZ Authors would like to acknowledge them for their efforts and helpful technical and financial ... air and propane (we took a composition of LPG formed almost fully with propane) The inlet intake manifold pressure is taken as an initial condition; it is equal to 1.013 bar for the air inlet and ... financial assistance References [1] Shankar K S, Mohanan P MPFI gasoline engine combustion, performance and emission characteristics with LPG injection INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT...
... Make:Megger, Biddle, England) Magnetic field mapping The performance of an electromagnet gets influenced by the design and material limitations, errors in construction, and the stability of the ... code, Reference manual, LA-UR-87-126, LANL 1987 Jain S K, Jain A, Sharma D, Hannurkar P R 2006 Acquisition and analysis of Langmuir probe characterization for ECR plasma Indian J Phys 80: 1011–1015 ... turns/layer (N/L), and 12 layers (L) {i.e 144 turns (N)}, and the central solenoid coil had 10 turns/layer (N/L) and 11 layers (L) {i.e 110 turns (N)} The total length of the conductor used for the side...
... basic concepts and build the equations and circuits corresponding rst to an ideal transformer and then to typical transformers in use Well introduce and work with the per unit system and will cover ... distribution transformer Notice only one HV bushing and lightning THE IDEAL TRANSFORMER Few ideal versions of human constructions exist, and the transformer offers no exception An ideal transformer is ... 3.3 An ideal transformer has an N1 Fig 3.3 N2 Symbol foran ideal transformer I1 Z I2 + + + + interesting characteristic A two-port network that contains it and impedances can E replaced by an...
... music, dance and film) and a range of humanistic, cognitive, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches Third, the atmosphere invited attendants to exchange ideas and perspectives, and to contribute ... gender and sexual orientation on ratings of attractiveness for male and female faces Participants included heterosexual and homosexual men and women The results showed that for heterosexual women and ... musicians and non-musicians, presented a series of experiments examining the relationship between major and minor keys and the experience of happiness and sadness in music While musicians easily...
... 5) It could be that sunshine and vitamin D are protective factors for cancers of many organs that can convert 25(OH)D into 1,25(OH)D2 Antioxidants α- and β-Carotene and other Carotenoids Carotenoids ... fruit and vegetable diet would reduce cancers of the mouth and pharynx, esophagus, lung, stomach, and colon and rectum; evidence of probable risk reduction was found for cancers of the larynx, pancreas, ... effect for prostate cancer [136], ovarian cancer [137], and breast cancer [138] Recently Grant found that sunlight was also protective for bladder, endometrial, renal cancer, multiple myeloma, and...
... Figure Both for 10 and 20 frames, the results are better for 50 than for 20 clusters, with small differences between 10 and 20 frames The results vary between -11.850 and -10.620 (for 5-50 iterations), ... 1972) The parameters are randomly initialised and then re-estimated with the InsideOutside algorithm (Lari and Young, 1990) which is an instance of the EM algorithm for training Probabilistic ... Brockmann and Lapata (2003) compared some of the models against human judgements on the acceptability of sentences, and demonstrated that the models were significantly correlated with human ratings, and...
... in both human and Xenopus lysates, which recognises the PR65 a and b isoforms equally well The best anti-C monoclonal was found to be F2 6A10, and it recognizes PP2AC in rabbit, mouse and Xenopus ... XN73 and XPR130 are derived from the same gene (B) In vitro transcription and translation products of total cDNA of wild type XN73 (Lane 1), GST-tagged XN73 (lane 2) His6-tagged XN73 (lane 3) and ... cannot be verified The full-length cDNA of XPR130 and XN73 were then used in an in vitro transcription–translation reaction, and the products separated by SDS/PAGE Proteins of about 130 kDa and...
... assessment Analysing technical, financial, institutional and social barriers Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources foran online community - page What is capacity? ... to an online community Web site to post a question for others to answer Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources foran online community - page How to assess capacity ... Keper objectives Channels must be selected, and the communication flow must be created and maintained Understanding Needs and Assessing Opportunities - Skills and resources foran online community...
... OSD Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) benefits from the DAES and SAR as analytical tools to track current and historical performance while using the information for estimating and projecting ... from program managers and program office staff The anecdotes often refer to added costs incurred by contractors (and paid for by the government) and the time and effort program managers and their staff ... Statutes and Regulations Through Interviews Compliance with statutes and regulations is a mandatory and integral part of the DoD organization and is often considered “routine” by program office and...
... (top panels) treated for 0, 3, 6, 12, and 24 hrs with TNFa (100 u/mL) and/ or IFNg (200 u/mL), and in cultured HUVEC (bottom panels) treated for 0,4,8,12, and 24 hrs with TNFa (100 u/mL) and/ or ... significant contributions to the conception, design and supervision of all experiments, performed data analysis and interpretation of data, supervised and coordinated all studies, and drafted the manuscript ... u/ml) and IFNg (200 u/ml) for 24 hrs, followed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting utilizing F11R antibody (arrows point to F11R), and tubulin, as the protein loading control, of 50 kDa Lanes and depict...
... was performed 48 h after implanting a cannula, and tissue samples were taken 1, and days after the operation Control rats were also anesthetized and underwent operation to implant a cannula Zhao ... used to analyze alterations of PAK1 and IL-RI interaction The immunoprecipitation antibody was anti-IL-1RI and the immunoblotting antibody was anti-PAK1 (A) Panel B depicts quantitative analysis ... exposed to IL-1b and IL-1ra as described in Methods, and immunoprecipitation was used to analyze the association between PAK1 and IL-RI The immunoprecipitation antibody was anti-IL-1RI and the immunoblotting...
... (10) For the given channel estimates H1 , H2 , and H0 , the MSE matrix of (10) is random due to the random errors E1 , E2 , and E0 Since the exact errors are not known and only the covariance ... Bi,i and Ci,i are the ith diagonal elements of B and C, respectively, and p = min(NT , NR , M, NS ) Since B and C are positive semidefinite, we have Bi,i ≥ and Ci,i ≥ for all i Using (47) and (49), ... design of linear precoder and destination equalizer for dual-hop amplifyand-forward MIMO relay systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 58, no 4, pp 2273–2283, 2010 S Boyd and L Vandenberghe,...
... problems foran increasing homeomorphism and positive homomorphism on time scales Liu Yang∗1,2 and Weiguo Zhang1 College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, ... on an application of a fixed point theorem due to Avery and Peterson which deals with fixed points of a cone-preserving operator defined on an ordered Banach space By using analysis techniques and ... (2009) [14] Han, W, Jin, Z: Positive solutions of nonlinear m-point BVP foran increasing homeomorphism and positive homomorphism with sign changing nonlinearity on time scales Commun Nonlinear Sci...
... 8–10 Fixed point iteration processes for nonexpansive mappings and asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces and Banach spaces including Mann 11 and Ishikawa 12 iteration processes ... extend and improve the corresponding results of Tada and Takahashi 19 , Inchan and Plubtieng 16 , Zegeye and Shahazad 18 , and many others Preliminaries We will use the following notations: “ ” for ... C and ≤ αn ≤ d < and < e ≤ rn ≤ f < 2α Then where C0 C and θn {xn } and {un } converge strongly to PF∩EP x0 Fixed Point Theory and Applications Proof We show first that the sequences {xn } and...