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For many years there has been a sustained worldwide effort to develop suitable detectors for gravitational waves, predicted to exist by Einstein but as yet undetected. At present there are several ground-based long-baseline laser interferometric detectors under construction, and within the next two to three years these... |
method can be applied successfully to his problem. Annotated bibliographies in combinatorial optimization gives a good overview of the literature that has appeared in the field of combinatorial optimisation in the last decade. It is clearly aimed at the academic community, and it deserves a place in any academic librar... |
ABSTRACT This paper reports a study which examined an interaction between action planning and processing of perceptual information in two different sensory modalities. In line with the idea that action planning consists in representing the action’s sensory outcomes, it was assumed that different types of actions should... |
The promotion of China's national image has been a focus in the agenda of the government and of academic studies in recent years. The roots for western countries' concerns and misgivings caused by China-rising are analyzed from three theoretical perspectives of International Relations. The author argues that it is inev... |
This article examines the relationship between coparenting and family-level processes during preschool and peer relationship outcomes in middle childhood, and the hypothesis that children's ability to regulate emotion (as indexed by basal vagal tone and the ability to suppress vagal tone) may moderate this relationship... |
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a severe disease, with unpredictable evolution that frequently leads to respiratory failure and death, despite some progresses made in the field of therapy. Basically, the bad prognosis and failure of therapy are the consequence of the lack of data about the molecular events that have a... |
Peritoneovenous shunts are used in the treatment of recurrent ascites or recurrent pleural effusions. Generally speaking, the shunts allow passage of ascites or pleural effusions (by either passive or active means) back into the central venous system. The most recent development in peritoneovenous shunts, known as the ... |
Emergence of multiple drug resistant (MDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii and a withering drug discovery pipeline, necessitates the search for effective alternatives to replace or synergize with currently used antibiotics. In this report, we have described the synergy assessment of a virulent Acinetobacter baumanni... |
The classical electrostatic problem of a point charge q between two semi-infinite conducting planes intersecting at a given angle is approached using methods from dynamical system theory. In this way the standard solution is recovered: the image method works if and only if with n a positive integer; the number of image... |
As an important technique for developing high-precision gyroscopes, atom interferometry with continuous atomic beams has exhibited advantages of high short-term sensitivity and dynamic response relative to that with periodically launched atom clouds. This article reanalyzes the characteristics of an atomic beam interfe... |
The Roman family has become a vibrant and challenging field of study, and the growing interest in children in Roman culture can be seen as a development within this trend. Nevertheless, studies of children tend to focus on the later phases of childhood, with few investigations of the role and significance of infants. W... |
Notwithstanding, Hossain rightfully argues that governance shortcomings are manifold and range from procedural failures, such as inadequate implementation; via lack of inclusion of established environmental principles; to the lack of inclusion of indigenous and local peoples in the Arctic. While this may be the case, H... |
On the basis of a rigorous theory, the dispersive characteristics of E/sub 0m/ waves in a hollow waveguide with various corrugation periods are investigated. Areas in parameters of the waveguide geometry have been found offering efficient interaction between an electron stream and a decelerated harmonic of the high-pow... |
The research community has spent the last ten years focusing on resource data routing in wireless communication. Sensor nodes have built a name for themselves in a number of industries, although sensor nodes are battery-operated and have a limited lifespan. As a result, while designing routing protocols, the primary go... |
There is a large body of literature demonstrating the association among depression and anxiety, and coronary heart disease (CHD). Contemporary cardiac rehabilitation is focused on optimal outcome and reduction of possible complications after acute coronary events and primary or elective percutaneous coronary interventi... |
Capture-recapture models and curve-fitting models have been proposed to estimate the remaining number of defects after a review. This estimation gives valuable information to monitor and control software reliability. However, the different models provide different estimates making it difficult to know which estimate is... |
The birth of a healthy baby is a cardinal pregnancy outcome, and one that is best brought about by midwifery, obstetric, and neonatal teams working in partnership with the expectant mother. The last decades have seen considerable improvement in the management of high-risk pregnancies and this has resulted in better con... |
of the Soviet Union (p. 34). His analysis of India's strenuous commitment to achieve self-reliance in advanced military technology is balanced; it gives credit where credit is due, but is scrupulous in identifying the trade-offs, and painfully frank about the shortcomings (in developing high performance aircraft, for e... |
We examined 204 children (137 boys and 67 girls) aged 12 years and under with septic arthritis. Their mean age was 31.1 months (1 to 144; SD 41.6). The most common joints affected were the knees and shoulders. Joints in the upper limb were affected more often in younger children and in the lower limb in those who were ... |
This paper describes a comparison of approaches for time series classification. Our comparisons included two different outlier removal methods (discords and reverse nearest neighbor), two different distance measures (Euclidean distance and dynamic time warping), and two different classification algorithms (k nearest ne... |
We obtain the robust Nash equilibrium (RNE) for a wide range of multi-user communications networks under uncertainty by utilizing the robust optimization theory for the worst-case uncertainties. To do so, we consider the uncertainty as a distance between the estimated and the actual values of the system parameters as a... |
There is RF electromagnetism leakage in the klystron gallery of the NSRL of Hefei. In order to ensure that the communication signal in the gallery is not disturbed, the leaked noise has been reduced using anti-interference technology. The contrast test for noise leakage has also been made and the result shows the effec... |
We analyzed California hospitals’ National Healthcare Safety Network Annual Surveys to describe antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) implementation progress following new state ASP legislation. The proportion of hospitals with all 7 Core Elements of Hospital ASP rose from 59.3% in 2014 to 69.2% in 2015 (P<.001). Inf... |
Introduction Caudal end septal deformities are common deformities. Trauma is a main cause of these deformities. there is lack of an algorithm for choosing the suitable technique for the type of deformity. The aim of this retrospective study was to put an algorithm for approaching different caudal end deformities. Patie... |
Through the wall radar (TWR) is a technology to detect the presence of an object behind a wall. Recently, the need to detect multiple objects simultaneously has driven an improvement for this technology. A problem is coming when the distance between two or more objects is too close. They may interfere with each other a... |
We prove weighted local smoothing estimates for the resolvent of the Laplacian in three dimensions with weights belonging to the Kerman–Sawyer class. This class contains the well‐known global Kato and Rollnik classes. We go on to discuss dispersive and Strichartz estimates for perturbations of the Laplacian by small po... |
HighlightsSoftware was developed for estimation of DSSAT CSM-CROPGRO-Soybean cultivar coefficients.Phenology-related coefficients were estimated based on observed phenological events.Growth-related cultivar coefficients were estimated based on time-series observations.Cultivar coefficients were optimized based on singl... |
OBJECTIVES |
To compare the clinical and economic outcomes of EVICEL (Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ) and TISSEEL (Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Westlake Village, CA) use in patients undergoing primary coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. |
DESIGN |
Retrospective database analysis. |
SETTING |
Premier prospective hospital database (June 2009 through March 2014) covering approximately 20% of hospital discharges in the United States. |
PARTICIPANTS |
Adults undergoing primary CABG surgery who received either EVICEL or TISSEEL on the day of surgery (index date). |
INTERVENTIONS |
Two intervention groups were formed, EVICEL and TISSEEL. Clinical outcomes compared included postoperative bleeding complications (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification code: 998.1) and number of blood transfusions received on the index day. Economic outcomes compared included ... |
MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS |
A total of 129,014 primary CABG surgery patients were identified; 986 patients (mean age: 64 years, 73% male) received EVICEL and 6,340 patients (mean age: 65 years, 75% male) received TISSEEL on the index day. After propensity-score matching, patients who received EVICEL compared with TISSEEL had significantly fewer p... |
CONCLUSION |
Results from this real-world retrospective database analysis showed fewer bleeding complications and lower costs in patients undergoing primary CABG surgery who received EVICEL compared with TISSEEL.Unusual occurrence of non carotenogenic strains of Dunaliella bardawil and Dunaliella parva in India |
Identification of green algal genus Dunaliella by conventional method is hard target since the strains vary morphologically and physiologically with conditions of growth. In this study, a total of nine different isolates of Dunaliella isolated from the salt pans of Tamil Nadu, India, were identified based on their morp... |
The ability to supply consumers of an urban area without any longer interruption during a feeder segment or substation transformer outage is assured by a link network configuration. The goal of method proposed in this paper is to design such link distribution network that satisfies the growing and changing load demand ... |
Background: |
Stroke remains the 4 |
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leading cause of death in the US with stroke related deaths occurring every 4 minutes. Perfluorocarbons (PFC) have been used to circulate oxygen and rescue ischemic tissue. Intravenous Dodecafluoropentane emulsion (DDFPe), a PFC, has shown great promise as a neuroprotective agent in embolic ischemic stroke models. Our... |
Methods: |
Previous data collected on 195 New Zealand White male or female rabbits (3.8 to 6.6 kg bw) with permanent occlusion of the cerebral arteries with two to three 700-900 micron diameter spheres was further reviewed to determine incidence of mortality in all controls and DDFPe treatment groups. In multiple applications, t... |
Results: |
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