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The risk of mortality was higher in the cohort of patients with AWS than in the reference cohort after adjusting for age, sex, and smoking (hazard ratio 12.7; 95% CI 9.1 to 17.6; p < 0.001). The standardized mortality ratio in patients with AWS was 8.6 (95% CI 7.7 to 9.7). Age, smoking, serum creatinine, serum bilirubi... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Long-term mortality is highly increased in patients who have a history of AWS. Liver and kidney dysfunction are independent predictors of long-term mortality in patients with AWS.Portosystemic shunt via the superior mesenteric and right ovarian vein leading to small intestine bleeding in alcoholic liver cirrhosis |
A 48-year-old woman with a history of longstanding alcohol consumption, arterial hypertension and morbid obesity was admitted to our emergency department due to massive haematochezia and dyspnoea. She was drowsy, tachypneic (28 breath/min) and icteric on admission. Blood pressure was 70/30 mm Hg and pulse rate 100/min.... |
Abdominal ultrasound showed …A Package of New Universal Non-Iterative Parametrizations for Stable Surface Layer Transfer Coefficients of Momentum, Heat and Moisture in Numerical Earth System Models |
<p><span>Results of weather forecast, present-day climate simulations and future climate projections depend among other factors on the interaction between the atmosphere and the underlying sea-ice, the land and the ocean. In numerical weather prediction and climate models some of these interactions are accounted for by... |
Financial analysts typically estimate volatilities and correlations from monthly or higher-frequency returns when determining the optimal composition of a portfolio. Although it is widely acknowledged that these measures are not necessarily stationary across samples, most analysts assume implicitly that, within sample,... |
The incidence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in psychiatric care has shown growing tendencies. Despite its frequency, it is an underdiagnosed disease. Profound knowledge of etiological factors of BPD is essential for the proper diagnosis and treatment. The present study aims to provide a developmental psychop... |
We present computationally efficient centralized and distributed moving horizon estimation (MHE) methods for large-scale interconnected systems, that are described by sparse banded or sparse multibanded system matrices. Both of these MHE methods are developed by approximating a solution of the MHE problem using the Che... |
Ensuring end-to-end bounded delay and fair allocation of bandwidth to a backlogged session are no more the only criterias for declaring a queue service scheme good. With the evolution of packet-switched networks, more and more distributed and multimedia applications are being developed. These applications demand that s... |
Several industries are formed by platform business models. To achieve success and have sustainability, the platforms should follow various strategies, paying attention on several factors. In this chapter, initially, how the platforms as a business model have emerged, in which ways they are used, and their working ways ... |
ophiolite belt in Western Kunlun Mountains and is composed of metamorphic peridotites, cumulate peridotites, mafic volcanic rocks and quartzites (Li et al., 2008; Dong et al., 2010). The Kuda ophiolite can be divided into four lithofacies, and chromite with the podiform texture occurs in the dunite and pyroxene peridot... |
Purpose |
This study aims to evaluate the practices of carbon management accounting (CMA) made by companies committed to sustainability in Australia’s four highest carbon-emitting industries, including electricity, transport, stationary energy and agriculture. The evaluation covers three CMA phases (i.e. data collection, interpr... |
Design/methodology/approach |
This is a cross-sectional study using descriptive research. Data was collected using a questionnaire primarily derived from Burritt et al.’s (2002, 2011) CMA framework and suggestions from other references. The questionnaire includes a set of closed- and open-ended questions. Data was collected from 39 senior managers ... |
Findings |
The respondents disclose numerous different motivations for their companies to practise CMA and various ways of practising their CMA. This reflects diverse industry practices due to the absence of a generally accepted standard and different stages of organisational learning. The findings also show that the respondents ... |
Practical implications |
The findings thoroughly describe the current CMA practices by companies committed to sustainability in Australia’s high carbon-emitting industries. Overall, the results show that while the respondents perceived CMA practices as essential for their companies’ sustainability performance and energy-saving, the CMA applica... |
Social implications |
The findings portray the perceptions of practitioners from Australia’s four highest carbon-emitting industries, indicating motivations to use CMA to understand their companies’ carbon footprint and reduce their companies’ environmental impacts. |
Originality/value |
The findings contribute to the limited literature in this area and offer several valuable insights regarding the current practice of CMA in Australia, focussing on high carbon-emission industries. It also encourages more research in this area using data from other industries or countries to develop comparative results ... |
Development of fly ash-based composite binder and its application in construction materials |
The effect of addition of metakaolin on hydration and physico-chemical properties of fly ash composite binder prepared by blending 50–60% fly ash with hydrated lime sludge, Portland cement and gypsum plaster were investigated. The metakaolin has a beneficial effect on the properties of composite binder by reducing its ... |
Composite is a combination of a reinforcing material within a matrix material that act together to provide enhanced properties unobtainable in either single material. Often the matrix provides protection from damage and gives mechanical stability to the reinforcement under loading; at the same time the reinforcement ca... |
A high-precision ultraviolet (UV) detector combining ZnO nanostructure and a dual delay line surface acoustic wave (SAW) oscillator system is presented. The UV detector is made of ZnO nanorods on a 128°YX-LiNbO3-based two-port SAW oscillator. The ZnO nanorod synthesized by chemical solution method is used as a UV sensi... |
Many theories have been developed to explain the pathogenesis of unstable angina, but so far none has adequately explained all the known facts about this disease. Most patients with unstable angina have atheromatous deposits in their coronary arteries, and progressive stenosis caused by large atheromatous plaques was o... |
An alternative theory that has gained wide acceptance attributes unstable angina to the sudden fissure or rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque. This exposes the highly thrombogenic endothelium to the circulation, and a platelet rich thrombus rapidly develops over the site of plaque rupture. The thrombus obstructs but u... |
The first piece of evidence indicating that other mechanisms are present comes from clinical observations. One would expect that thrombosis over the site of plaque rupture would be an acute event, from which the patient would either recover or die. In either case the time course of the illness would be short, whereas u... |
Localized treatment of the limb buds of the frog, Xenopus laevis, and the salamander, Ambystoma mexicanum, with the mitotic inhibitor colchicine results in limbs that, when compared with the contralateral control, are smaller in size and have lost skeletal elements. There is a very well defined pattern in terms of what... |
Background—Photo-realistic terapixel visualization is computationally intensive and to date there have been no such visualizations of urban digital twins, the few terapixel visualizations that exist have looked towards space rather than earth. Objective—Our aims are: creating a scalable cloud supercomputer software arc... |
This article is concerned with the processes that lie between the sensing of an idea and its subsequent presentation in a written 'academic' style. It is based on the experience of writing a PhD thesis that set out to explore a 'felt-reality' concerning the relationship between community education and spirituality. Cen... |
Shape and lattice orientation relations as well as chemical compositions of Fe-Ti-oxide micro-inclusions and plagioclase host crystals in rocks of a gabbro-plagiogranite assemblage from the Mid-Atlantic ridge at 13°34' N were studied using electron back scatter diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and field-em... |
A case control study was conducted from October 2018 to September 2020 by taking children between the age group 2 months to 5 years, admitted to Sishu Bhawan and SCB Medical College Hospital, Cuttack with an acute history of cough and rapid respiration or difficulty in breathing, to know the correlation between various... |
Keywords: Hypoxemia, Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, Lower Respiratory Tract Infection, Management.Cannabinoid receptor type 1 modulates excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in mouse colon. |
The effects of cannabinoid receptor agonists and antagonists on smooth muscle resting membrane potentials and on membrane potentials following electrical neuronal stimulation in a myenteric neuron/smooth muscle preparation of wild-type and cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1)-deficient mice were investigated in vitro. Dou... |
This paper is concerned with the decentralized stabilization problem for a class of large‐scale feedforward nonlinear time‐delay systems. The uncertain nonlinearities involved in the systems are assumed to be bounded by continuous functions of the inputs and delayed inputs multiplied by unmeasured states and delayed st... |
The term ‘functional foods’ is a relatively new food category or concept, originating in the 1980s and becoming more widely used over the past decade. The ‘functional foods’ concept has been notoriously hard to define. Discussions of functional foods often begin by acknowledging that there are no generally accepted def... |
Introduction. In a previous paper* I have described an experimental method of measuring ion mobilities in a gas, which yields accurate values for both upper and lower limits of a distribution range, and from which one can also derive a curve showing the general shape of the distribution band, with a calculable resolvin... |
In this paper we consider a reduced-form intensity-based credit risk model with a hidden Markov state process. A filtering method is proposed for extracting the underlying state given the observation processes. The method can be applied to a wide range of problems. Based on this model, we derive the joint distribution ... |
Extended X-ray absorption fine structure above the GaK edge has been used to study the local structure of heterointerfaces in GaN/AlN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) grown with ammonia molecular beam epitaxy at different growth temperatures. Thickness of AlN and GaN layers in MQWs were evaluated using transmission electr... |
The present study examines evidence for and against a midlife crisis in an intensively studied sample of 54 middle and lower-middle class men and women whose youngest child is about to leave home. While some members of the sample had serious problems, the confrontation of the empty nest, when compared with retrospectio... |
The social and historical development of population and education is subject to the restriction of the means of production. Although it is not the major factor in determing the direction of social development, it has a great impact on social progress and historical development. The scale and level of educational devel... |
A CMOS Time-of-Flight Image Sensor with High Dynamic Range Digital Pixel |
To widen measuring range and suppress background light, a CMOS time-of-flight image sensor with high dynamic range digital pixel is proposed. The sensing charge is quantized by extended-counting analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) which consists of pixel coarse quantization and column fine quantization. To maximize dyn... |
ABSTRACT Introduction: Identifying and treating children with tuberculosis (TB) infection in both low and high-TB burden settings will decrease the incidence of TB disease worldwide. Areas covered: This review covers each of the available TB infection treatment options for children based on effectiveness, safety, toler... |
Local recovery approaches for reliable multicast have the potential to provide significant performance gains in terms of reduced bandwidth and delay, and higher system throughput. In this paper we examine two local recovery approaches-one server-based, and the other receiver-based, and compare their performance. The se... |
Pulsed laser deposition has been used to deposit multilayer heterostructures consisting of high temperature superconductor (HTS) and ferroelectric layers for tunable microwave device applications. The dielectric nonlinearity and loss of the ferroelectric thin films are the key material parameters determining the perfor... |
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