A seminal advance in the care of thermally injured patients was the recognition of the large volumes of fluid required during resuscitation and the relationship of these volumes to burn size and body weight. This discovery resulted in the virtual elimination of acute renal failure as a consequence of burn shock. Today, the established standard of care focuses on the intravenous route for fluid ...

This work describes a genetic programming (GP) approach that creates vegetation indices (VI’s) to automatically detect the sum of healthy, dry, and dead vegetation. Nowadays, it is acknowledged that VI’s are the most popular method for extracting vegetation information from satellite imagery. In particular, erosion models like the “Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation” (RUSLE) can use VI’s as i...

Specialized areas wi th in broad, close, cell-substratum contacts seen with reflection interference contrast microscopy in cultures of Xenopus embryonic muscle cells were studied. These areas usually contained a distinct pattern of l ight and dark spots suggesting that the closeness of apposit ion between the membrane and the substratum was irregular. They coincided with areas containing acetyl...

We have used antibodies to human thrombomodulin isolated from placenta to investigate the distribution of this cofactor for protein C activation in human tissues. Thrombomodulin was found on endothelial cells of arteries, veins, capillaries, and lymphatics by immunocytochemical staining using an avidin-biotin peroxidase method. Thrombomodulin was not detected on sinusoidal lining cells of liver...

The Internet and World Wide Web are emerging as important public relations tools for both profit and non-profit organizations. Little evidence exists, however, about the extent to which new technologies help organizations build relationships with publics. This article examines the relationship between Web site design and organizational responsiveness to stakeholder information needs. Two organi...

ion Truth level Plan value 1 through(D1), through(D2), go-to(table) d2t 2 open(D1), through(D1), open(D2), through(D2), dt go-to(table) 3 go-to(D1), open(D1), through(D1), go-to(D2), t open(D2), through(D2), go-to(table) Table 2: Re ning plans 2.2 Treatment using defaults Base-level default knowledge can reproduce this hierarchical decomposition without resorting to the use of a specialized rep...

I first summarize Baltag and Smets’ contribution to this volume, and praise their work. Then I compare the anti-lexicographic plausibility update that they propose to a proposal by Aucher, as an illustration of the difference between a qualitative and a quantitive formulation of updates. I quote Spohn’s original work that is at the root of research in plausibility updates and of the notion of a...