Current Connection Machine (CM) Fortran codes developed for the CM-2 and the CM-5 represent an important class of parallel applications. Several users have employed CM Fortran codes in production mode on the CM-2 and the CM-5 for the last five to six years, constituting a heavy investment in terms of cost and time. With Thinking Machines Corporation's decision to withdraw from the hardware busi...

HOW DOES ALTERATION OF AIRWAY RESISTANCE AFFECT DELIVERED TIDAL VOLUME IN ADULT PATIENTS RECEIVING HIGH-FREQUENCY OSCILLATORY VENTILATION (HFOV)? Concerns exist regarding the ability of HFOV to provide the needed lung protective ventilation for adult patients with ARDS. HFOV is increasingly being used as a lung protecting ventilation mode even if some of its protective attributes may be lost as...

In the past, relations of diffusive resistance to stomatal geometry have concerned circular pores or pores that are replaced by equivalent circles of the same area. We calculated the resistance for general shapes that include the realistic slit. The resistance comprises two terms. The first is an outer resistance that depends only on ventilation and leaf geometry and is independent of stomata. ...

BACKGROUND Health care databases provide a widely used source of data for health care research, but their accuracy remains uncertain. We analyzed data from the 1985 National DRG Validation Study, which carefully reabstracted and reassigned ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes from a national sample of 7050 medical records, to determine whether coding accuracy had improved since the Institute ...

Background: Uterus is considered as a major reproductive organ in women which responsible for pregnancy and delivery of the foetus. The dimensions uterus can act markers health women. dimension deviates from normal presence any anomalies. Therefore, uterine help predicting treatment. Ultrasonography an overexploited technique due to key advantages it provides diagnoses purposes. easily be measu...