Background: The effective therapeutic dose of pralidoxime methylsulphate for organophosphate (OP) poisoning is necessary to be clarified. This study was designed to comparatively assess the blood level of pralidoxime (BPL) and clinical outcomes in OP poisoned patients treated with intermittent dosing and patients treated with continuous infusion. Methods: This was a prospective, open labelled, ...

Frame erasure (FE) robustness is an important quality measure for voice over IP networks (VoIP). Recovery of the erased frames from the received information is crucial to realize this robustness. We allow the lost frames to be recovered from both the “previous” and “next” good frames. We first give quantitative distortion comparisons between predictive and interpolative frame recovery. Then we ...

Abstract We show spectral invariance for faithful $$*$$ ? -representations a class of twisted convolution algebras. More precisely, if G is locally compact group with continuous 2-cocycle c which the corresponding Mackey $$G_c$$ G c</mml:...

‎for any archimedean$f$-ring $a$ with unit in whichbreak$awedge‎‎(1-a)leq 0$ for all $ain a$‎, ‎the following are shown to be‎‎equivalent‎:‎‎1‎. ‎$a$ is isomorphic to the $l$-ring ${mathfrak z}l$ of all‎‎integer-valued continuous functions on some frame $l$‎. 2‎. ‎$a$ is a homomorphic image of the $l$-ring $c_{bbb z}(x)$‎‎of all integer-valued continuous functions‎, ‎in the usual sense‎,‎on som...

The familiar classical result that a continuous map from a space $X$ to a space $Y$ can be defined by giving continuous maps $varphi_U: U to Y$ on each member $U$ of an open cover ${mathfrak C}$ of $X$ such that $varphi_Umid U cap V = varphi_V mid U cap V$ for all $U,V in {mathfrak C}$ was recently shown to have an exact analogue in pointfree topology, and the same was done for the familiar cla...

The mechanisms controlling the recombination process of the g genes that encode the g chain of the antigen receptor of the gd T lymphocytes are unclear. Based on experimental data on the recombination status of the two major TCR g genes expressed in V g4þ and V g1þ thymocytes, we tested the plausibility of three possible rearrangement mechanisms: (1) a time window mechanism according to which t...