Case Studies And How They Are Used

Phthalate ester plasticizers--why and how they are used.

Rapid response teams: how are they best used?

Many cardiac arrests in hospitalized patients are preceded by warning signs such as derangements in vital signs [1–3]. Despite advancements in many aspects of health care, in-hospital cardiac arrests continue to have a mortality of approximately 80 % [4]. Efforts to reduce mortality in hospitalized patients therefore include a focus on the deteriorating patient in order to provide earlier treat...

Source Control Change Messages: How Are They Used And What Do They Mean?

Source control systems permit developers to attach a free form message to every committed change. The content of these change messages is rarely investigated and little is known about their use by developers while they maintain their code. We present the results of a survey we conducted with professional software developers. The purpose of this survey was to investigate how developers make use ...

Blood substitutes. What they are and how they might be used.

Three classes of materials have been studied as potential blood substitutes: modified hemoglobin solutions, perfluorocarbon emulsions, and liposome-encapsulated hemoglobin. The first two have reached phase III clinical trials, while the third remains in the preclinical state of testing. Hemoglobin is a highly active molecule; hence, modification has been required to avoid potential deleterious ...

How Many are they and How Do they live?

This paper attempts to define the common people of India in terms of levels of consumption and examines their socio-economic profile in different periods of time since the early 1990s with a view to assessing how the economic growth process has impacted on their lives. The findings should worry everyone. Despite high growth, more than three-fourths of Indians are poor and vulnerable with a leve...