Why is the practice of intensive care so heterogenous? Uncertainty as to 'best practice', conservatism, and complacency may all contribute to our divergent management strategies. The need for further generalisable research, anonymised audit, external peer review and open access databases is discussed.

By employing the (de)homogenization technique in a relatively extensive setting, this note studies in detail the relation between nonhomogeneous Gröbner bases and homogeneous Gröbner bases. As a consequence, a general principle of computing Gröbner bases (for an ideal and its homogenization ideal) by passing to homogenized generators is clarified systematically. The obtained results improve and...

In this work, the multiscale problem of modeling fluctuations in boundary layers in stochastic elliptic partial differential equations is solved by homogenization. A homogenized equation for the covariance of the solution of stochastic elliptic PDEs is derived. In addition to the homogenized equation, a rate for the covariance and variance as the cell size tends to zero is given. For the homoge...

The effects of high temperature homogenization and low temperature annealing treatments on the microstructure and magnetic properties of sintered magnets of an Nd17Fe76.5B5Cu1.5 type alloy have been investigated. The microstructure of the as-cast alloy, consisted of three phases including a Nd2Fe14B1 (2:14:1- type) matrix phase Cu-containing Nd-rich Phase and Free α-iron. The as-sintered magnet...

Abstract. This paper extends the result of [9] on the homogenization of integral functionals with linear growth defined for Sobolev maps taking values in a given manifold. Through a Γ-convergence analysis, we identify the homogenized energy in the space of functions of bounded variation. It turns out to be finite for BV -maps with values in the manifold. The bulk and Cantor parts of the energy ...

Abstract. This paper extends the result of [9] on the homogenization of integral functionals with linear growth defined for Sobolev maps taking values in a given manifold. Through a Γ-convergence analysis, we identify the homogenized energy in the space of functions of bounded variation. It turns out to be finite for BV -maps with values in the manifold. The bulk and Cantor parts of the energy ...