OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of an improvement programme to reduce the number of interruptions during the medication administration process in a paediatric hospital. DESIGN AND METHODS A prestudy-post study design was used to monitor nursing interruptions during medication cycles in a paediatric hospital. Interruptions were reported on an observation sheet (MADOS-P) adapted to the pa...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used in the diagnostic evaluation of the pelvic floor dysfunctions. MRI can contribute to generate 3D solids of pelvic floor muscles through manual segmentation. The aim of this study is to calculate the area and its moment of inertia of 8 female pelvic floor muscles by using manual segmentation technique. Based on CAD software manual segmentation was u...

polymerization contraction may produce defects in the composite - tooth bond. this may lead to bond failure and microleakage. the aim of this study was to reduce microleakage of posterior composites using different methods. 45 molar and premolars extracted teeth were choosen. the cavities were randomly assigned into 5 groups of 9. box-shaped cavities were prepared on each side of proximal surfa...

background: electrophysiologic (edx) study is the most valuable method in grading the severity of carpal tunnel syndrome (cts), but it is invasive and painful. we evaluated the efficacy of ultrasound for this purpose. materials and methods: eighty-one wrists of 52 consecutive patients with clinical evidences of cts, confirmed and graded by edx as mild, moderate, and severe, were examined by ult...

the human blood basal glucose level is a completely controlled range. information on the relationship between culture glucose concentration and changes in the cell's surface area, volume and surface area to volume (s/v) ratio are lacking. cancerous epithelial-like cell lines sw480, sw742 and t-47d were cultured in mediums nourished with 4.7 mm per liter of glucose as the control group and three...

This paper examines the utility of high-resolution airborne RGB orthophotos and LiDAR data for mapping residential land uses within the spatial limits of suburb of Athens, Greece. Modern remote sensors deliver ample information from the AOI (area of interest) for the estimation of 2D indicators or with the inclusion of elevation data 3D indicators for the classification of urban land. In this r...

A fire growth and smoke movement model for a multi-compartment building has been developed at the National Research Council of Canada. This development is primarily intended to help evaluate the risk from fires in buildings. This paper presents the related physical models, numerical methods, and some verification examples. The 2-zone ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are derived for the co...