OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS An outpatient surgical procedure for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) should not only stiffen the soft palate, but also widen the opening of retropalatal space. This study presents a concurrent palatal implants (PI) and uvulopalatal flap (UPF) in the outpatient setting under local anesthesia for OSAS patients. STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. METHODS ...

Hourly rounds—intentionally checking on patients at regular intervals—continues to be debated in nursing circles. Often, registered nurses make rounds on even hours and support staff make rounds on odd hours from 6 AM to 10 PM (and every 2 hours from 10 PM to 6 AM). While making rounds, staff engage patients by checking on the “4 P’s”: pain, positioning, potty (elimination), and proximity of pe...

methanol steam reforming plays a pivotal role to produce hydrogen for fuel cell systems in a low temperature range. to accomplish higher methanol conversion and lower co production, the reaction was catalyzed by cuznfe mixed oxides. various ratios of fe and cu/zn were coprecipitated in differential method to optimize the cuznfe structure. the sample containing 45cu50zn5fe (wt. %) revealed its m...

This paper presents a robust hourly cooling-load forecasting method based on time-indexed autoregressive with exogenous inputs (ARX) models, in which the coefficients are estimated through a two-stage weighted least squares regression. The prediction method includes a combination of two separate time-indexed ARX models to improve prediction accuracy of the cooling load over different forecastin...

Several web applications (such as processing RSS feeds or web service messages) rely on XPath-based data manipulation tools. Web developers need to use XPath queries effectively on increasingly larger web collections containing hundreds of thousands of XML documents. Even when tasks only need to deal with a single document at a time, developers benefit from understanding the behaviour of XPath ...

[1] Heterogeneity in small‐scale subsurface flow processes does not necessarily lead to complex system behavior at larger scales. Here we use the simple dynamical systems approach recently proposed by Kirchner (WRR, 2009) to analyze, characterize, and simulate streamflow dynamics in the Swiss Rietholzbach catchment. The Rietholzbach data set used here provides 32 years of continuous and high‐qu...

In a prospective randomized double blind clinical study, 120 patients of either sex in the age group of 25-65 years with ASA I and II, who were scheduled to undergo elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy were allocated to two groups of 60 patients each with regard to postoperative analgesia. In Group-I (n=60) the patients received Bupivacaine (0.5%) 20ml, instilled in gallbladder bed and the und...

Taking the air pollution monitoring data of 34 stations in Beijing from February 8 to 9, 2020, as an example. A spatiotemporal dynamic interpolation model PM2.5 based on a multi-source was established. Based hourly day, dispersion and attenuation non-point source were interpolated. An improved hybrid genetic algorithm used solve parameters model. The Kriging predict concentration diffusion scal...

This paper presents a short-term forecasting model designed to forecast the hourly power production in a grid-connected photovoltaic plant. The model is based on neuro-fuzzy systems optimized with the use of a genetic algorithm. The model uses as inputs forecasted weather variables obtained with a meso-scale numerical weather prediction model. The model was applied to forecast the hourly produc...