Results: The incidence of AKI was 23.2%.  AKI had significant correlation with older age (p-value 0.006) and hypertension (p-value 0.034) . Chest pain and abdominal pain were more common in patients with than those without AKI. Also Mean serum concentration of inflammatory markers ( D-dimer and C-reactive protein (CRP)) in patients with AKI was 1863.6±1599 ng/ml and 66.65±60.81 ng/ml, compared ...

If Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are cosmologically distributed standard candles and are associated with the luminous galaxies, then the observed angular distribution of all GRBs is altered due to weak gravitational lensing of bursts by density inhomogeneities. The amplitude of the effect is generally small. For example, if the current catalogs extend to zmax ∼ 1 and we live in a flat Ω = 1 Universe,...

We study the ordinary differential equation εẍ+ ẋ+ εg(x) = εf(ωt), where g and f are real-analytic functions, with f quasi-periodic in t with frequency vector ω. If c0 ∈ R is such that g(c0) equals the average of f and g(c0) 6= 0, under very mild assumptions on ω there exists a quasi-periodic solution close to c0 with frequency vector ω. We show that such a solution depends analytically on ε in...

The aim of this study was to establish how well a three-parameter sigmoid exponential function, DIFACT, follows experimentally obtained voluntary neural activation-angular velocity profiles and how robust it is to perturbed levels of maximal activation. Six male volunteers (age 26.3±2.73 years) were tested before and after an 8-session, 3-week training protocol. Torque-angular velocity (T-ω) an...

BACKGROUND Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common event in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), especially in extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) infants. This cohort study investigated the incidence of and risk factors for AKI in ELBW infants and their overall survival at the postmenstrual age (PMA) of 36 weeks. METHODS All ELBW infants admitted to our NICU between January 2010 and December...

results there were no significant differences between the 4 groups in white blood cell count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and esr at baseline (p > 0.05). the number of platelet units was remarkably higher, but the number of mpv and hco3 was considerably lower in patients with loss/ failure criteria. conclusions mpv is higher in the case of platelets destruction, and this is commonly observed in inf...

We consider accretion disks consisting of counter-rotating gaseous components with an intervening shear layer. Configurations of this type may arise from the accretion of newly supplied counter-rotating gas onto an existing co-rotating gas disk. For simplicity we consider the case where the gas well above the disk midplane is rotating with angular rate +Ω and that well below has the same proper...

When a solid body is freely rotating at an angular velocity Ω, the ellipsoid of constant angular momentum, in the space Ω1, Ω2, Ω3, has poles corresponding to spinning about the minimal-inertia and maximal-inertia axes. The first pole may be considered stable if we neglect the inner dissipation, but becomes unstable if the dissipation is taken into account. This happens because the bodies dissi...

BACKGROUND In ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), acute kidney injury (AKI) may increase subsequent morbidity and mortality. Still, it remains difficult to predict AKI risk in these patients. We sought to 1) determine the frequency and clinical outcomes of AKI and, 2) develop, validate and compare a web-based tool for predicting AKI. METHODS & FINDINGS In a racially diverse series of ...

When a solid body is freely rotating at an angular velocity Ω, the ellipsoid of constant angular momentum, in the space Ω1, Ω2, Ω3, has poles corresponding to spinning about the minimal-inertia and maximal-inertia axes. The first pole may be considered stable if we neglect the inner dissipation, but becomes unstable if the dissipation is taken into account. This happens because the bodies dissi...