Many organisations worldwide are benefiting from the use of electronic mail (e-mail) for workplace communication. However employees continue to report multifarious e-mail concerns (“e-mail defects”) including ambiguous unclear messages, e-mail overload, security and privacy issues, and e-mail interruptions. Such e-mail defects affect employee productivity and satisfaction, organisational costs ...

Seabuckthorn (SBT; Hippophae rhamnoides L.) is a thorny bush found growing wild in high altitude cold deserts of India. Present study involved pharmacognostical (Botanical and physicochemical) characterization and phytochemical investigation of SBT leaves. Botanical characterization revealed the presence of large amount of stellate trichomes. Among physicochemical parameters, total ash was foun...

SBT is portable library and tool for on-line debugging and performance monitoring of shared-memory parallel programs using the single-program-multiple-data (SPMD) model of parallelism. SPMD programs often use barriers to synchronize threads of execution and to delimit the start and end of different phases of computation. Through its useful barrier constructs, dynamic performance warnings, and i...

After struggling for three decades, SBT is finally emerging as a clinical reality. To become the standard therapy for the treatment of end-stage intestinal failure, SBT must offer a better quality of life, fewer risks, and lower costs than home TPN. To achieve this standard, protocols must be refined to obtain lower rates of rejection and infection as well as more consistent graft function.

Methods A prospective observational multicenter study of 100 mechanically ventilated patients. We assessed the agreement between nurses, physicians and patients’ scores of breathlessness, perception of feeling secure and improvement of respiratory function at the end of a SBT. We also determined the association between breathlessness and demographic factors or respiratory observations. Self-rep...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a marker of inflammation, has been known to be elevated in patients with coronary artery disease. However, there is controversy about the predictive value of hs-CRP after acute myocardial infarction (MI). Therefore, we evaluated the impact of ischemic time on the predictive value of hs-CRP in ST-segment elevation myocar...

BACKGROUND Aspiration pneumonia is an urgent health concern with high mortality and long hospitalization in industrialized and aging countries. However, there is no information about the effectiveness of azithromycin (AZM) for the treatment of aspiration pneumonia. This study investigated if AZM is effective for the treatment of aspiration pneumonia. METHODS Patients with aspiration pneumonia...

Many organisations worldwide are benefiting from the use of electronic mail (e-mail) for workplace communication. However employees continue to report multifarious e-mail concerns (“e-mail defects”) including ambiguous unclear messages, e-mail overload, security and privacy issues, and e-mail interruptions. Such e-mail defects affect employee productivity and satisfaction, organisational costs ...

The purpose of this research is to determine the feasibility of developing a new aesthetic, crashworthy terminal for the steel-backed timber (SBT) guardrail system for use by the National Park Service and others along park roads and scenic highways. Two conceptual designs, a flared non-energy absorbing concept and a parallel energy absorbing concept, were developed using the same materials that...

OBJECTIVE The present report aims to molecularly characterize seven clinical L. pneumophila (L. pn.) sg 1 isolated from nosocomial acquired infections in Apulia region, using the European Working Group on Legionella Infections (EWGLI), sequence-based typing (SBT) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) protocols and to compare the identified sequence types (STs) with those available i...