OBJECTIVES To use the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database to develop an accurate and clinically meaningful preoperative mortality predictor (PMP) for general surgery on the basis of objective information easily obtainable at the patient's bedside and to compare it with the preexisting NSQIP mortality predictor (NMP). METHODS Data w...

Executive summary Backhaul is a crucial enabler for mobile operators deploying new high-capacity technologies like Long Term Evolution (LTE), as they look for a solution that meets their performance requirements and minimizes costs – in particular opex, the largest contributor to backhaul costs. Backhaul prominence will rise further with the deployment of small cells, and with the associated in...

OBJECTIVE Microparticles (MPs) are membrane-bound vesicles derived from vascular and intravascular cells such as endothelial cells (EMPs) and platelets (PMPs). We investigated EMP and PMP numbers across a spectrum of autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) with the aim of comparing the levels of, and relationship between, EMPs and PMPs. METHODS Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) (...

the two main approaches for estimating pmp are the synoptic and statistical techniques that their results are often different and selection of the appropriate option is difficult. in the most previous researches the frequency factor in the statistical method has been considered equal to 15 which this is the ultimate limit of frequency factor and the corresponding pmp is became too large. in the...

Human hepatic peroxisomal AGT (alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase) is a PLP (pyridoxal 5'-phosphate)-dependent enzyme whose deficiency causes primary hyperoxaluria Type I, a rare autosomal recessive disorder. To acquire experimental evidence for the physiological function of AGT, the K(eq),(overall) of the reaction, the steady-state kinetic parameters of the forward and reverse reactions, and ...

RESEARCH QUESTIONS Wearing a protective mask is compulsory for those in professions such as fire-fighters, rescue personnel and soldiers. The phobia to wear a protective mask is considered a specific claustrophobia and may become of major concern during military service. To date, no data are available with respect to the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical system activity (HPA SA) for both th...

سابقه و هدف: آب هوای یک منطقه در دوره بلندمدت را اقلیم گویند. شناسایی طبقه‌بندی اقلیمی از دیرباز مورد توجه متخصصان هواشناسی بوده است. محققان با به کارگیری روش ­های مختلف استفاده متغیرهای همچون بارش دما، زمین مناطق همگن طبقه ­بندی کرده‌اند نتایج پهنه‌بندی ارزیابی کمبود منابع مقیاس­ های کوچک بزرگ منظور پیش‌بینی اقدامات عملی برای کنترل خشکی آسیب‌پذیر به‌کار برده‌اند. هدف این تحقیق به‌‌روزرسانی تحل...

Two novel hollow-fibre liquid–liquid membrane contactor (HF-LLMC) modules, containing S-type (skin layer with low porosity) and Q-type higher fibres, have been evaluated. Both asymmetric, porous, hydrophobic membranes, made from poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (PMP), were used as efficient technology for ammonia recovery to produce liquid fertilisers. The ammonia-rich stream was fed into the shell sid...

In recent years, many methods of safe vehicle navigation and partial motion planning (PMP) have been proposed in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) field. In order to improve the limitation of traditional PMP, this paper presents a novel effective way to plan motion with cooperation of roadside fixed sensors (RFSs). With their cooperation, the vehicles can get the surrounding information quickly ...