BACKGROUND Paralympic sports provide opportunities for those who have an impairment that might otherwise be a barrier to participation in regular sporting competition. Rifle shooting represents an ideal sport for persons with vision impairment (VI) because the direction of the rifle can be guided by auditory information when vision is impaired. However, it is unknown whether those with some rem...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been hard to assess due to the lack of standard definitions. Recently, the Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-Stage Kidney (RIFLE) classification has been proposed to classify AKI in a number of clinical settings. This study aims to estimate the frequency and levels of severity of AKI and to study its association with patient mortality and length of sta...

We should either have been more or less than man if we had escaped the infectious enthusiasm of that glorious movement which may be said to have attained maturity in the Volunteer Review, before Her Majesty, on the 23rd ult. We refer to the movement here, not that we propose to' discuss its ethical or ?esthetical aspects. These are sufficiently impressed upon the feelings of every true Englishm...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is common after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of RIFLE classification in the development of CKD, hemodialysis requirement, and mortality. Patients were categorized as risk (R), injury (I) or failure (F) according to renal function at day 1, 7 and 21. Final renal function was classified according to K/...

In Indian Army, soldiers normally carry 21.4 kg in backpack (BP), haversack, and web distributed in different parts of the body and rifle in hand. This load distribution is unequal, may involve excess energy expenditure, mostly uncomfortable, and restricts the normal movement of the hand carrying rifle. A new BP has been developed which accommodates the rifle on sides leaving the hands free. Ph...

The penetration of a rifle bullet into a block of ballistic gelatin is experimentally and computationally studied for enhancing our understanding of the damage caused to human soft tissues. The gelatin is modeled as an isotropic and homogeneous elastic-plastic linearly strain-hardening material that obeys a polynomial equation of state. Effects of numerical uncertainties on penetration characte...