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49 HYDROCORTISONE IMPROVED HAEMODYNAMICS AND FLUID REQUIREMENT IN SURVIVING BUT NOT NONSURVIVING OF SEVERELY BURNED PATIENTS The administration of hydrocortisone can lead to a reduction of catecholamines and improved outcome in septic patients. However, no data exist regarding the use of hydrocortisone in burn patients although, in such patients, the reduction of vasopressors may be even more c...

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50 Motion

Motion is ubiquitous in the physical world, yet its study is much less developed than that of another common physical modality, namely shape. While we have several standardized mathematical shape descriptions, and even entire disciplines devoted to that area–such as Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD)—the state of formal motion descriptions is still in flux. This in part because motion descr...

Ela 50

A matrix A is called completely positive if it can be decomposed as A = BBT with an entrywise nonnegative matrix B. The set of all such matrices is a convex cone which plays a role in certain optimization problems. A characterization of the interior of this cone is provided.