OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to assess the influence of sex and body position on external chest compression (ECC) to a manikin by Chinese nurses and to determine the relationship between rescuer's predicted VO2max and ECC depth. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS A total of 40 nurses performed ECC on a manikin for 5 min in the standing (S) and bed-mount kneeling (K) position, then completed a...

Despite advances in cardiovascular surgery and the use of new equipment for extracorporeal circulation (ECC), the goal of indefinitely safe ECC is not a reality yet. One of the limiting factors is trauma to the blood as it traverses the extracorporeal circuit. Of the factors that have been implicated as sources of trauma, obstructions or disturbances to flow and surface roughness are the two up...

The paper presents a solution for endcoding/decoding access to the subway public transportation systems. First part of the paper is dedicated through section one and two to the most used 2D barcodes used in the market – QR and DataMatrix. The sample for DataMatrix is author propietary and the QR sample is from the QR standard [2]. The section three presents MMS and Digital Rights Management top...

1 Streptococcus mutans is one of several members of the oral indigenous biota linked with severe 2 early childhood caries (S-ECC). Because most humans harbor S. mutans, but not all manifest 3 disease, it has been proposed that the strains of S. mutans associated with S-ECC are 4 genetically distinct from those found in caries free (CF) children. The objective of this study was 5 to identify com...

background: early childhood caries (ecc) is a common health problem in the developing countries. basic knowledge about the etiology and pathogenesis of ecc plays an important role in its prevention. objective: to determine the relationship between salivary tlr-2 concentration and early childhood caries formation methods: twenty-eight children with ages ranging from 36 to 71 months (15 in ecc gr...

Background: Early childhood caries (ECC) is a common health problem in the developing countries. Basic knowledge about the etiology and pathogenesis of ECC plays an important role in its prevention. Objective: To determine the relationship between salivary TLR-2 concentration and early childhood caries formation Methods: Twenty-Eight children with ages ranging from 36 to 71 months (15 in ECC gr...

Present investigation aims to establish the dosimetric characteristics of a novel fabricated flat fibre TLD system for postal radiotherapy dose audits. Various thermoluminescence (TL) properties have been investigated for five sizes of 6 mol% Ge-doped optical fibres. Key dosimetric characteristics including reproducibility, linearity, fading and energy dependence have been established. Irradiat...

Streptococcus mutans is one of several members of the oral indigenous biota linked with severe early childhood caries (S-ECC). Because most humans harbor S. mutans, but not all manifest disease, it has been proposed that the strains of S. mutans associated with S-ECC are genetically distinct from those found in caries-free (CF) children. The objective of this study was to identify common DNA fr...

PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracies for glaucoma detection of scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) with enhanced corneal compensation (GDx ECC) and variable corneal compensation (GDx VCC; both by Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA), according to different levels of disease severity and presence of atypical retardation patterns. METHODS The study included 102 eyes of 68 patients ...

Thermo-luminescent detectors are currently used to measure gamma doses in the medical and environmental surveillance fields. During past few years, CEA Reactor Studies Division tested validated use of these for flux characterization nuclear heating measurements mixed neutron/gamma fields low power reactors. Doses were comprised between a mGy Gy dose rates up Gy.h -1 . However, MTR or TRIGA reac...