OBJECTIVE To determine the increase in intensive care unit (ICU) bed availability that would result from the use of the New South Wales and Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic (OHPIP) triage protocols. DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS Prospective evaluation study conducted in eight Australian, adult, general ICUs, between September 2009 and May 2010. All patients who were admitted to th...

OBJECTIVE To identify the social psychological factors affecting women's evaluation of care provided in Czech maternity hospitals using following criteria: satisfaction with intrapartum and postpartum care, willingness to return to a given hospital and to recommend the hospital to others. METHODS 762 women completed a 71-item original Czech questionnaire KLI-P designed to measure the psychoso...

This paper is devoted to the study of a resource-constrained scheduling problem, the Process Move Programming problem, which arises in relation to the operability of certain high availability real-time distributed systems. Informally, this problem consists, starting from an arbitrary initial distribution of processes on the processors of a distributed system, in finding the least disruptive seq...

One of the major concerns in the power sector is the day-today increasing power demand but the unavailability of enough resources to meet the power demand using the conventional energy sources. Energy is the prime mover of economic growth and is vital to the sustenance of a modern economy .Future economic growth crucially depends on the long-term availability of energy from sources that are aff...

Though established quality control standards were maintained, the bioavailability of digoxin from Lanoxin tablets produced in the United Kingdom fell in 1969, and was restored in 1972. After 1.5 mg doses of representative batches, tablets made between 1969 and 1972 produced mean values for area under the 50 hours plasma concentration/time curve of 36.6 ng/ml/hr and four-day urinary excretion of...

Better understanding of the processes controlling arsenic bioavailability in the rhizosphere is important to enhance plant arsenic accumulation by hyperaccumulators. This greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the chemical characteristics of the rhizosphere of two arsenic hyperaccumulators Pterisvittata and Pterisbiaurita. They were grown for 8 weeks in rhizopots containing arsenic-con...

OBJECTIVE To compare the bioavailability and safety profile of crushed ticagrelor tablets suspended in water and administered orally or via nasogastric tube, with that of whole tablets administered orally. METHODS In this single-center, open-label, randomized, three-treatment crossover study, 36 healthy volunteers were randomized to receive a single 90-mg dose of ticagrelor administered orall...

Many studies have been done over the years to assess the effectiveness of Echinacea as an immunomodulator. We have assessed the potential bioavailability of alkyl- amides and caffeic acid conjugates using Caco-2 monolayers and compared it to their actual bioavailability in a Phase I clinical trial. The caffeic acid conjugates permeated poorly through the Caco-2 monolayers. Alkylamides were foun...

Little is known about pyrethroid fate and effects in estuarine and marine environments. In the present study, the extent and magnitude of pyrethroids in coastal embayments of the Southern California Bight (SCB), USA, were assessed. Using a stratified probabilistic design, 155 sediment samples were collected from four embayment habitats (estuaries, marinas, open bays, and ports) and analyzed for...

Two important and large non-point sources of nitrogen in residential areas that adversely affect water quality are stormwater runoff and effluent from on-site treatment systems. These sources are challenging to control due to their variable flow rates and nitrogen concentrations. Denitrifying bioreactors that employ a lignocellulosic wood chip medium contained within a saturated (anoxic) zone a...