BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In an inner-London teaching hospital, a randomized trial of "conventional" care versus early discharge to community-based therapy found no significant differences in clinical outcomes between patient groups. This report examines the economic consequences of the alternative strategies. METHODS One hundred sixty-seven patients received the early discharge package, and 164...

Free radicals and an oxidant/antioxidant imbalance have been involved in the schizophrenia pathophysiology. The total antioxidant capacity (TAC) is a measure of the antioxidant capacity of a system. Day/night changes are a biological characteristic of hormones such as melatonin or cortisol. There is little information about TAC day/night changes in schizophrenia patients. The aim of this resear...

Charge-discharge properties of the surface-modified ZrNi negative electrodes with different degrees of boiling alkaline treatment were investigated. The boiling alkaline treatment was performed by immersing the ZrNi electrode in a boiling 6 M KOH aqueous solution for 2 h or 4 h. The initial discharge capacity for the untreated ZrNi negative electrode was 21 mAh·g−1, but it was increased to 114 ...

Stacked porous octahedral tin phosphate Sn(2)P(2)O(7) nanodisks, with a thickness and a width of 20 nm and 200 nm, respectively, were prepared from quenching hydrothermally prepared (SnHPO(4))(2).H(2)O at 600 degrees C. The first discharge capacity was 600 mA h g(-1) while the capacity retention, even after 220 cycles, was 93%.

Ge nanotube array anodes are prepared by template-assisted electrodeposition from an ionic liquid to obtain superior cycling performance. They show remarkable cycling ability at 0.2 C, with a very high initial discharge capacity of 1641 mA h g(-1) and a charge capacity of 1260 mA h g(-1). After 250 cycles the capacity retention is 98% relative to that at the 50th cycle.

a case which is observed in the judicial decisions on the patients’ rights is a physician who causes the patient’s death upon his treatment. in a case, the physician doing positional anesthesia observes that the patient is shocked and dies and considering what has been mentioned in the decisions issued by the supreme court, the accused is sentenced to the payment of one complete blood money to ...

The measurement of phase resolved partial discharge requires a gigantic memory capacity to store all the waves of the PD test results. This limitation eventually hinders the testing. It is necessary to optimize on the aspect of memory storage capability to reduce the storage requirements. In light of foregoing, the partial discharge data retrieval techniques with sampling rate methods were used...

The electrochemical activity of LiNiO2 at the initial cycle and factors affecting its were understood. Even though can achieve almost theoretical charge capacity, it cannot deliver discharge capacity that would result in low 1st Coulombic efficiency (CE). For different upper cut-off voltages 4.3 4.1 V, CE barely increases. Given H2-H3 phase transition occurs ∼4.2 is not caused by this but a add...

OBJECTIVES : To investigate whether a daily exercise session, using a bedside cycle ergometer, is a safe and effective intervention in preventing or attenuating the decrease in functional exercise capacity, functional status, and quadriceps force that is associated with prolonged intensive care unit stay. A prolonged stay in the intensive care unit is associated with muscle dysfunction, which m...