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... levels [27] Conclusions In summary, we demonstrate that hyperlactatemia is common and associated with adverse outcome Inclusion of hyperlactatemia adds to the prediction ability of the existing ... fatality rate among the cohort of first ICU admissions for patients who survived at least the day of presentation was 1001/9107 (11%) Among the first admission cohort with at least one day of ICU stay, ... patients, there are a number of limitations that merit discussion We did not assess lactate based on an algorithm but rather based on physician-dependent indications and lactate measurement was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... intellectual content PM has made substantial contributions to study conception and design CV has made substantial contributions to study conception and design and data collection Authors' information *Members ... study conception and design, acquisition of data, statistical analysis and has been involved in drafting the manuscript LD has made substantial contributions to study conception and design and acquisition ... indications for rhAPC, steroids and protective ventilation In accordance with the indications of IHI for the local implementation of the SSC, a few months after the publication of the international...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... of an exact analogy with the problem of random trapping [167], which we outline below Consider a Brownian particle in one dimension, diffusing (with diffusion constant D) among a concentration ... provided in terms of concepts of directed percolation The model sandpile used here is a two-dimensional version of an earlier (onedimensional) disordered and non-abelian sandpile [121] ‘Grains’ are ... function of different configurational histories It is conventional to define this range in terms of another angle, θm , called the angle of maximal stability; this is the minimum value of the angle of...

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... and that happen not to be part of the standard prelude of most languages In section matrix manipulation, bit lists and binary trees are dealt with In section the notions of `state function' and ... functions in section for the DCT operation, and in section for color space conversion A matrix is simply a list of lists, of which we will assume that the rows have equal length The dimensions of ... implementation of a JPEG decoder in the Gofer language This article can serve as a: Speci cation The program has the conciseness of a mathematical description, and thus acts as a `functional speci cation'...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 15:15

... Disease Control and Prevention, FDA, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories of the Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... Diagnosis and Therapy: The State of the Science, Evaluation, Implementation and Economics (Margie Patlak and Sharyl Nass, 2006) and Cancer Biomarkers: The Promises and Challenges of Improving Detection ... dissemination of information to ensure E progress and avoid fragmentation of effort EDRN is a leader in defining and using criteria for the validation of biomarkers—an essential condition for scientific...

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... other news about economic conditions; see Bernanke and Kuttner [2005] for a thorough discussion. 3 Motivated by the conventional notion of See, for example, DeYoung and Roland [2001] and Stiroh [2004] ... Empirical Investigation,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 54, 1769–1808 Rigobon, R and B Sack (2004): “The Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 51, 1553–1575 ... billions of chain-weighted dollars (2005 = 100) deviation of almost years In contrast, the average repricing time or maturity of liabilities is less than months—with a standard deviation of only...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... and CRC as described above Molecular alterations occurring at the key transition from hyperplasia to dysplasia include loss of expression of MLH1 in group CRC and loss of expression of MGMT and ... MSI-H144 but (and consistent with the rarity of medullary carcinoma) mutation of this gene was observed in only 3.2% of Lynch syndrome CRC.145 Loss of expression of CDX2 was strongly associated ... families, about half of 117 which met the Amsterdam criteria, a high proportion of both polyps and CRC showed mutation of BRAF and ⁄ or methylation of the CIMP marker MINT31 Many of the polyps were...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... HUMANITARIAN IMPACT ON PALESTINIANS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE WEST BANK July 2007 United Nations - Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Table of Contents ... by the construction of the Barrier around the Gush 'Etzion block of settlements Photo: by J.C.Tordai, 2007 20 Chapter One Examples of territorial and population expansion between 1987 and 2005 ... including the Civil Administration; the ministries of Construction and Housing, Interior Affairs and Agriculture; and the Settlement Division of the World Zionist Organization.22 Like a settlement,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... initiation and monitoring as per standard care Exclusion criteria included exposure to intravenous inotropic support within month and inability to give written informed consent After conclusion of ... ejection fraction of 16%, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 30 mmHg and cardiac index of 1.81 L/min/m2 TnI and B-type Natri- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational ... heart failure, and the effect milrinone in ischemic subset of patients deserves further investigation Conclusion Initiation of milrinone therapy in patients with severe heart failure and reduced...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... indication for surgery, preoperative condition, designation of surgeon and type of surgery We also assessed the competence of the two types of professionals that were the performing surgeons, by ... general condition 24 hours after operation in relation to category of surgeon Total Alive and well Alive and unwell Stillbirth Early neonatal death No information Total The profile of patients ... post-operative maternal general condition in relation to category of surgeon Condition Clinical officer Medical officers Total Fair Sick Very sick No information Total 1700 (90.7%) 105 (5.6%)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... learning and retention of motor skills can be enhanced if a patient assumes control over practice conditions, e.g timing of exercise instructions and feedback [91] As reflection and attention are ... function level, activity level and participation level The review offers an inventory of points to focus on for development of future and/ or adaptation of current rehabilitation technology AAT and ... identification of the variables that limit patient's performance and identification of patient constraints as a basis of treatment strategy selection, analysis of the intervention and patient's...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... International Standards on Auditing 2.11 Clarified International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) were issued in October 2009 and will apply to the audits in these contracts Reclassification ... 2.19 and 2.20 below) Tenderers must complete the Background Information Questionnaire at Appendix and the Freedom of Information Statement at Appendix The NIAO Standard Terms and Conditions applicable ... the remaining stages of the procurement is as follows: Date Evaluation of tenders Notification of intention to award contracts/agreements Standstill period Contract Award confirmed By Wednesday...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 21:20

... (2.30) Consequently, the proof of (2.1) is complete by combining (i) and (ii) Proof of (2.2) The proof is similar to the proof of (2.1), so we omit it here Proof of (2.3) If k = 2, we only need ... inequality and Ando-Hiai log-majorization, Linear Algebra and [5] its Applications 219 (1995), 139–155 [6] T Furuta and M Yanagida, On powers of p-hyponormal and log-hyponormal operators, Journal of ... of (2.3), so we omit it here Proof of Corollary 2.2 We have (i) by the process of the proof of (2.1) and (2.2) (ii) is obvious by case k = of (2.3), (2.4) and L-H C Yang and J Yuan Estimation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 21:20

... S´-Thompson theorem [7, 10] The original proofs of S´ and Thompson a a were long and complicated, and relied on very involved techniques The proof in [7] (Proposition 4.1 and Lemma 4.2) uses nonelementary ... square one with a prescribed similarity class The proof of this famous classical result is based on induction on the number of added rows and columns, and one of the crucial steps is the convexity ... original proofs of the convexity lemma, which are completely independent one from the another one, both in [7] and [10] are rather long and involved Later on, new combinatorial proof of this lemma...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22

... the lack of TFS may prevent dissociation of stalled complexes and consequently increase the number of replication fork disruptions due to collision between the replication and transcription machineries ... sufficient taxonomic sampling and no evidence of multiple paralogies and/ or LGT were retained and concatenated into two large fusions, one consisting of 14 proteins of the transcription apparatus ... information The comparison of the percentages of amino-acid differences in transcription and translation fusion datasets for each pair of species is shown in Figure A strong correlation between...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21

... Long-term results of flap reconstruction in median sternotomy wound infections Plast Reconstr Surg 1994, 93(6):1208-14, discussion 1215-6 Braxton JH, Marrin CA, McGrath PD, Ross CS, Morton JR, Norotsky ... renal impairment and prolonged ventilation and ICU stay such as alcocholics following re-intubation and prolonged intensive care unit stay following delirium or prolong ventilation following a ... more conservative surgical options such as sternal resuturing with mediastinal irrigation Further reductions in mortality will depend on earlier detection of mediastinitis, before the onset of septicemia,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... investigated the effect of therapeutic dose enoxaparin and four doses of DAA on blood coagulation status and markers of fibrin formation, activation of fibrinolysis, and fibrin dissolution in acute PE ... preparation of citrated plasma were drawn immediately before starting the study drug infusion, 4, 8, and 12 hours after the start of the study drug infusion, and once daily on days 2, 3, 4, 5, and of ... percent) and aPTT 12 hours after start of infusion Prothrombin time (PT Quick percent) and aPTT 12 hours after the start of the study drug infusion DAA infusion caused a prolongation of PT (reduction...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... competence of the HN However, complete understanding of the dynamics of HSC-HN interactions and how the HN participates in the regulation of HSC function remains illusive Investigations on the subject ... Srour, E.F Impact of interactions of cellular components of the bone marrow microenvironment on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell function Blood 115, 3239-3248 (2010) 36 13 Maloney, M.A., Lamela, ... portion of it iii ABSTRACT Mariya Aleksandrova Aleksandrova IMPACT OF ALCAM (CD166) ON HOMING OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS The potential of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) to home and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 09:44

... tungsten bronzes have three possibilities: (i) Andreson localization in the conduction band as a consequence of strong scattering from the intercalated ions, (ii) formation of an impurity band and localization ... localization due to disorder for x > 0.2, and (iii) splitting-off of an impurity band as a consequence of electron correlation and Anderson localization in a pseudogap However recent high-resolution ... conduction bands The electron and hole liberated from the exciton by a phonon, fly apart, thus 32 - 33 disabling radiative recombination The quasi-continuum of valence and conduction band states...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2015, 11:58

... performance of electromagnet requests high magnetic induction and low temperature A complex-objective function based on maximization of magnetic induction and minimization of entransy dissipation rate ... optimization results of Ref [66] were obtained with fixed magnetic induction Complex-objective function of minimization of entransy dissipation rate and maximization of magnetic induction For the ... reconsideration in the constructal design of cavities Energy Conversion and Management, 2013, 66: 33–40 [32] Hajmohammadi M R, Campo A, Nourazar S S, Ostad A M Improvement of forced convection...

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