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Modern power systems have a high degree of reliability. Power system design together with proper operation and maintenance practices, decreases the probability of electrical failure but cannot exclude them completely. Hence a power system requires a real time embedded system, which operates within strict t ime deadline... |
Over the past year, the Radiology Informatics Committee (RIC) of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) achieved some significant milestones toward its goals of promoting education and research in critical emerging technologies and in digital imaging and healthcare information systems, as well as advancing th... |
A time encoding machine is a real-time asynchronous mechanism for encoding amplitude information into a time sequence. We investigate the operating characteristics of a machine consisting of a feedback loop containing an adder, a linear filter, and a noninverting Schmitt trigger. We show that the amplitude information ... |
Smoluchowski's equation is widely applied to describe the time evolution of the cluster-size distribution during aggregation processes. Analytical solutions for this equation, however, are known only for a very limited number of kernels. Therefore, numerical methods have to be used to describe the time evolution of the... |
FormerFormer consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Glasgow (b Paisley 1922; q Glasgow 1945; FRCOG), died from ischaemic heart disease on 13 April 2005. |
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After qualifying Gordon Barr joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of major. In 1948 he began to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. As a consultant, he worked in many hospitals in Glasgow, including the Royal and Victoria infirmaries and the Royal Samaritan Hospital for Women. On 4 November 1964... |
In comparison with the standard three-channel colour images, spectral retinal images provide more detailed information about the structure of the retina. However, the availability of spectral retinal images for the research and development of image analysis methods is limited. In this paper, we propose two approaches t... |
This paper presents ReMAP, a reconfigurable architecture geared towards accelerating and parallelizing applications within a heterogeneous CMP. In ReMAP, threads share a common reconfigurable fabric that can be configured for individual thread computation or fine-grained communication with integrated computation. The a... |
Because of the rise of anthropogenic sources of NP human exposure to NP has dramatically increased in the recent years, in the general population as well as in workers (e.g., welders). This raises the question of the potential adverse effects of NP on human health, particularly at the respiratory level, since it repres... |
The analysis of meiosis in higher plants has benefited considerably in recent years from the completion of the genome sequence of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the development of cytological techniques for this species. A combination of forward and reverse genetics has provided important routes toward the id... |
Abstract In North America the names Punctelia subrudecta and P. perreticulata have variously been applied to corticolous sorediate Punctelia specimens with lecanoric acid and a pale lower surface. ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2 sequence data were generated from a geographically and morphologically broad sampling from within thes... |
Neurological and psychiatric abnormalities are frequent complications of systemic autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The range and acuity of these abnormalities vary widely, as do the immunopathogenic mechanisms. Progress in the understanding of likely mechanisms and potential therapies in these groups of disorders ... |
The vasculitides and connective tissue diseases provide an avenue for investigating the pathophysiology of immune injury among the vasculature of the central and peripheral nervous systems, the viscera, and the skin. In the vasculitides, the blood vessels are the central target of acute immune injury; in the connective... |
During the past thirty years, there have been many studies on the physique of Olympic and other international class athletes, frequently using control groups of less active students. The author has summarised many of these studies, giving brief description of the characteristics of each group of sportsmen and women, po... |
Biochemical and biophysical constants can be obtained from in vivo or in situ samples by calorimetric measurements. In this work scanning microcalorimetric measurements of nine Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species were made in a range between 5°C and 35°C during the CAM night cycle. When plotted in the Arrhenius ... |
InN dots grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition were analyzed using atom probe tomography and transmission electron microscopy. A dot was found to be composed of pure InN at the core with a sharp interface with its underlying GaN layer and a more diffuse interface with its top GaN cap layer. Both techniques re... |
Background and purpose: Patients with essential tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) may exhibit overlapping clinical features. Also, a growing number of non‐motor features are being documented in ET. Color vision abnormalities, although well known to occur in PD, have not been studied extensively in ET. We assess... |
Indian conflict (Vol. I, p. 292) is not very discriminating. Then again the distribution and nature of the misprints or mis-spellings in the footnotes (e.g., " John K. Fairband et Sju Yii-teng," Vol. II, p. 42) suggest that portions of the manuscript may not have received sufficiently close scrutiny from a China specia... |
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the causative agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a severe and highly contagious respiratory disease responsible for economic losses in the swine industry worldwide. Although antimicrobial resistance in A. pleuropneumoniae has been recently reported in different countries, the current s... |
BACKGROUND |
Servicemembers injured in combat often experience moderate to severe acute pain. Early and effective pain control in the prehospital setting has been shown to reduce the sequelae of untreated pain. Current data suggest that lack of point-of-injury (POI) analgesia has significant, downstream effects on healthcare qualit... |
METHODS |
This was a process improvement project to determine the current rate of adherence to existing prehospital pain management guidelines. The records of patients who had sustained a major injury and met current Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) criteria for POI analgesia from July 2013 through March 2014 were reviewed t... |
RESULTS |
During the project period, there were 185 records available for review, with 135 meeting TCCC criteria for POI analgesia (68 pre-, 66 postintervention). Prior to 31 October 2013, 17% of study patients received analgesia within guidelines at the POI compared with 35% in the after period. The most common medication admin... |
CONCLUSION |
Less than half of all eligible combat casualties receive any analgesia at the POI. Further research is needed to determine the etiology of such poor adherence to current TCCC guidelines.The Use of Shredded Plastic Water Bottles in Soil Stabilization |
Please Soil stabilization is a mechanical or chemical procedure to improve the physical properties of weak soil. In this research, a mechanical process of using shredded plastic water bottles has been investigated in soil stabilization. To achieve the objective of this research, two types of clayey soils have been sele... |
Here you are going to experiment with a particle filter tracker such as was described in class. Recall that we need a variety of elements: (1) A model this is the “thing” that is actually being tracked. Maybe it’s a patch, a contour, or some other description of an entity; (2) a representation of state xt that describe... |
The addition of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to a chemically defined, serum free medium prolonged hepatocytes survival in primary culture. DMSO exposure had a remarkable effect on morphological change and F-actin filaments distribution of hepatocytes. When hepatocytes were cultured in a medium containing 2% DMSO, the cell... |
The Sergiev Posad polygon of the MGRI-RSGPU is located on the watershed of the Pazha and Torgosha rivers located on the southern slope of the Klinsky-Dmitrovsky ridge; geologically, the upper part of its section is composed of clay soils of Quaternary and Cretaceous age. The paper gives an analysis of the values of sei... |
The as-solutionized Mg-4Zn alloys, one candidate material for biological implantation, are featured with the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect during the tensile testing with strain rate of 6.67×10-7 s-1, which leads to the higher corrosion rate and the acceleration of stress corrosion cracking. With the increase of the str... |
ABSTRACT A convenient method has been developed for the preparation of a variety of 2-mercaptobenzothiazoles from 2-haloanilines and CS2 mediated by metal sulfide. In this reaction, 2-haloanilines reacted with CS2 in the presence of Na2S · 9H2O to form 2-mercaptobenzothiazoles. Na2S · 9H2O functioned both as an activat... |
BACKGROUND |
After 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) introduction, non-vaccine serotypes such as 19A are increasing among Streptococcus pneumoniae. However, only limited data on 19A S. pneumoniae are available in Asian countries. |
METHODS |
Out of 1637 S. pneumoniae clinical pneumonia isolates collected during 2008 and 2009 from 10 Asian countries (Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam), 91 serotype 19A S. pneumoniae isolates were identified. Capsular swelling reaction identified serotype 19A... |
RESULTS |
Thirty different sequence types (STs) were identified. The most prevalent clone was ST320 (46 isolates, 51.1%). ST320 was found in Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. ST320 isolates were mostly multidrug resistant (MDR) and showed significantly higher resistance rates than other STs for cefuroxi... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Although diverse clones were identified among 19A S. pneumoniae isolates, MDR ST320 was the predominant clone in Asian countries. Its predominance, even in countries with no or low coverage of PCV7, may indicate that its emergence and dissemination was due to more than just vaccine selection pressure in Asian countries... |
An unusual case of intraparenchymal myofibromatosis of the brain occurring in a 29‐year‐old woman is described. Preoperative CT and MRI examinations revealed two well‐circumscribed nodular masses localized in the wall of the left lateral ventricle and right temporal lobe, respectively. Both masses were completely resec... |
Strong absorption of fast magnetosonic waves (FMS) was observed in the TM-1-VCh tokamak at the second harmonic of the ion-cyclotron frequency ..omega..=2..omega../sub i B/ in deuterium. The absorption is due to small addition of hydrogen (approx.1%), for which ..omega..=..omega../sub B i/. The protons acquire energy ef... |
DISCUSSION We report a case of a xanthomatous reaction to black tattoo ink. Our patient presented with an asymptomatic papular eruption limited to the black tattoo ink in a multicolored tattoo approximately 1 month after tattoo placement (Fig. 1). The patient had multiple tattoos with a variety of colors placed by a pr... |
Ethnomethodologists have emphasized the pragmatic and contextual nature of description as a variety of social practice, and have suggested the ramifications of this insight for the methodology and philosophy of the social sciences. However, ethnomethodologists have thereby invited difficult questions about the moral an... |
The problem of detecting rocket plumes at thermospheric altitudes with satellite-borne submillimeter-wave radiometers is examined theoretically. To estimate the sizes of plume signatures contrasted against a 250-K earth background or in self-emission against the cold sky, a computer program has been developed to predic... |
The growing importance of India and other emerging economies in the globalized world are given in this lecture. This group of economies is not easy to define. However, some reflections on the implications of these changes are made. The emerging markets are becoming larger players in the global economy. The main focus i... |
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