BACKGROUND In 1994, the American Heart Association Stroke Council concluded that there were no data to support the routine use of supplemental oxygen in patients who had a stroke. More recently, supplemental oxygen has been suggested to be potentially detrimental. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of oxygen use in ischemic stroke patients and whether patients receiving oxyge...

Some convenient limit properties of usual information criteria are given for cointegrating rank selection. Allowing for a non-parametric short memory component and using a reduced rank regression with only a single lag, standard information criteria are shown to be weakly consistent in the choice of cointegrating rank provided the penalty coefficient Cn → ∞ and Cn/n → 0 as n → ∞. The limit dist...

Chocó-Darien is an important biogeographic realm, as it a terrestrial biodiversity hotspot and the southern limit of Caribbean reefs. However, to date there are no compiled data on reef fish assemblage this region. We provide updated checklist marine fishes from system (Colombia), with comments their geographic distribution conservation status. Peer-reviewed studies, unpublished in situ visual ...

today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. it is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. the present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between family values and marital tendency among female high school students in Qaemshahr city. To answer the main research question, five hypotheses with independent variables (rituals and traditions, spouse selection criteria, decision making system, intergenerational gap and also accountability) together with dependent varia...

Claire KRAMSCH, the founder of ReCAL research network, shared with us excerpts from her AILA Lyon 2023 presentation to give an overview network's historical perspective and developed or ongoing projects. The Research Network Cultures in Applied Linguistics was established 2015 by Executive Committee. role examine cultural, political, epistemological, methodological diversity applied linguistics...

In this study, we aimed to implement information obtained and refined from garden elements in heritage conservation, monitoring, management precisely construct an model of classical Chinese gardens, including on the entity, space, attributes, etc., improve efficiency royal gardens. Three-dimensional laser scanning technology point cloud were used accurately collect process digital After classif...

participatory conservation, as bottom-up management, is currently the most acceptable modelfor management of protected areas across the world. social context is a central issue in the sustainablemanagement of conservation areas. it is also crucial to introducing participatory conservation. the newapproach therefore recognizes rural communities as key partners in biodiversity management and seek...

We argue for the usefulness of convenient optimization criteria, when building scalable and efficient instance retrieval inference services for ontology-based applications. We discuss several optimization criteria, especially a dedicated load balancing strategy, evaluate the approach with practical experiments on a particular implementation and present results.