Background: Underlying diseases and aggressive procedures, such as different types of surgery and care, for patients with critical conditions in intensive care units (ICU) may be associated with physiological disorders. Objectives: This study intended to determine the effect of therapeutic touch on physiological variables of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in ICU. Methods: This...

The Radiological Physics Center (RPC) has been utilizing TLD to verify photon-beam output, and electron-beam output and energy for many years. The RPC currently monitors over 1200 institutions, monitoring 4000 photon and 3500 electron beams per year. Control TLD, irradiated on one specific Co-60 machine, are used for a performance check of our TLD system. Analysis of these data over 5 years, re...

This study highlights the blood lactate response of weightlifters (N = 5) in two modes of olympic lifts: Snatch (SN) and Clean & Jerk (CJ), during three types of training namely (1) one repetition lift (ORL), (2) Multiple set session (MSS) and (3) one set session (OSS). In ORL, 30, 40, 50, and 60 kg, each of one repetition only, were lifted with an interval of 5 min between two consecutive load...

ed/Indexed by: MEDLINE http://intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/ijid/ PL = Plenary P = Poster Presentations S = Symposium Saturday, March 6, 2004 Session 38 Mycoses (P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S132 Session 39 Nosocomial Infections and Infection Control (P) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S134 Session 40 Parasitic Infections I: Sys...

In previous studies, we have found that electrical stimulation on the hind paw of rats successfully elicit BOLD fMRI activation in several regions of the cerebral cortex. This preliminary study explored the effect of morphine on such kind of footshock-induced brain activity. Rats were anesthetized by alpha-chloralose (20 mg/kg/hr, i.v.) and received electrical stimulations on the left hind paw ...

This letter considers the development of transmission strategies for downlink massive multiple-input multiple-output networks, with objective minimizing completion time transmission. Specifically, we introduce a session-based scheme that splits into sessions and allocates different rates in users. In each session, one user is selected to complete its will not join subsequent sessions, which res...

PURPOSE We aimed to compare the effects of a fast shock wave rate (120 shocks per minute) and a slow shock wave rate (60 shocks per minute) on the shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) success rate, patient's pain tolerance, and complications. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 165 patients with radiopaque renal pelvis or upper ureter stones were included in the study. Patients were classified by use of...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate methods of prevention of scrotal hyperthermia in laptop computer (LC) users. DESIGN Experimental study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENT(S) Twenty-nine healthy male volunteers. INTERVENTION(S) Right and left scrotal temperature and LC and lap pad temperatures were recorded during three separate 60-minute sessions using a working LC in a laptop position: session...

Traditionally, each party in a (dyadic or multiparty) session implements exactly one role specified in the type of the session. We refer to this kind of session as an individual session (i-session). As a generalization of i-session, a group session (g-session) is one in which each party may implement a group of roles based on one channel. In particular, each of the two parties involved in a dya...