complications and that postoperative ventilation time was significantly longer in the ACP group than the RCP group. This was true for the total cohort of patients as well as for the riskadjusted analysis and propensity-matched pairing analysis. Recently, another propensity-matched analysis was carried out by a group from Duke University to examine the superiority of ACP or RCP in proximal (hemi...

OBJECTIVE Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions are recommended for the reduction of stroke risk in people who have had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA). This study aimed to investigate the quality of secondary stroke prevention in primary care following diagnosis of TIA in a specialist clinic. METHODS Quality standards were identified from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) nation...

The recumbent cycling position (RCP) has become increasingly popular in recent years as a mode of exercise and rehabilitation. However, subtle, but important, differences are expected to exist between the RCP and the standard, upright cycling position (SCP). The differences are due primarily to the altered orientation of the rider's lower extremities relative to gravity. In order to determine i...

In this paper, we propose rapid control prototyping (RCP) for a robot soccer using the SIMTool that has been developed in Seoul National University, Korea for the control aided control system design (CACSD). The proposed RCP enables us to carry out the rapid design and the verification of controls for two-wheeled mobile robots (TWMRs), players in the robot soccer, without writing C codes direct...

Many proteins are retrieved to the trans-Golgi Network (TGN) from the endosomal system through several retrograde transport pathways to maintain the composition and function of the TGN. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in these distinct retrograde pathways remain to be fully understood. Here we have used fluorescence and electron microscopy as well as various functional transport assa...

The health burden from heatwaves is expected to increase with rising global mean temperatures and more extreme heat events over the coming decades. Health-related effects from extreme heat are more common in elderly populations. The population of Europe is rapidly aging, which will increase the health effects of future temperatures. In this study, we estimate the magnitude of adaptation needed ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in self-contamination rates and levels of contact and droplet protection associated with enhanced respiratory and contact precautions (E-RCP) and a personal protective system that included a full body suit, personal protective equipment and a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR). METHODS In this prospective, randomized, con...

OBJECTIVE To compare the childhood urinary tract infection (UTI) guidelines from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in 1991 and from National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (CG54) in 2007 by measuring their efficiency at detecting urinary tract abnormalities. DESIGN Children with UTIs within the Newcastle Primary Care Trust (population 70,800 children) were referred and ima...

The paper studies the reach control problem (RCP) to make trajectories of an affine system defined on a polytopic state space reach and exit a prescribed facet of the polytope in finite time without first leaving the polytope. We introduce the notion of a flow function, which provides the analog of a Lyapunov function for the equilibrium stability problem. A flow function comprises a scalar fun...

The transmission control protocol (TCP) is the major transport layer protocol in the Internet today. TCP and its variants have the drawback of not knowing the explicit rate share of flows at bottleneck links. The Rate Control Protocol (RCP) is a major clean slate congestion control protocol which has been recently proposed to address these drawbacks. RCP tries to get explicit knowledge of flow ...