We develop a unifying theory of hypoxia tolerance based on information from two cell level models (brain cortical cells and isolated hepatocytes) from the highly anoxia tolerant aquatic turtle and from other more hypoxia sensitive systems. We propose that the response of hypoxia tolerant systems to oxygen lack occurs in two phases (defense and rescue). The first lines of defense against hypoxia...

Recently, many applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been discussed. Navigation with WSNs is among the most heated debated ones. Previous navigation algorithms attempt to find safe and efficient escape paths for individuals under various environmental dynamics but ignore possible congestion caused by the individuals rushing for the exits. Moreover, most previous works have overlo...

BACKGROUND On 4 October 1992, a cargo aircraft crashed into apartment buildings in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fire-fighters and police officers assisted with the rescue work. OBJECTIVES To examine the long term health complaints in rescue workers exposed to a disaster. METHODS A historical cohort study was performed among police officers (n = 834) and fire-fighters (n = 334) who performed ...

Purpose. The purpose of this article is to study the conditions for achieving high results operational actions rescue services and quality management, which will allow timely correct choice methods, forces means firefighting in coal mines carry out maneuvers depending on type fire (exogenous, endogenous). places origin combustion centers, its scale, gas situation, number people captured by acci...

Balawista has the task of overseeing tourists who carry out marine tourism activities. important roles to prevent and rescue from accidents injuries. Rescue competence that is considered qualified makes assume there no need use work safety equipment, but equipment a self-protection effort Balawista. The aimed this study was explore perception among staffs. This descriptive quantitative with cro...

This paper presents a hybrid behaviour process for performing collaborative tasks and coordination capabilities in a rescue team. RoboCup Rescue simulator and its associated international competition are used as the testbed for our proposal. Unlike other published work in this field one of our main concerns is having good results on RoboCup Rescue championships by emerging behaviour in agents u...

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conclusions both add-on ldt and switching to peg-ifn-α2a were satisfactory and optimal treatments for chb patients with poor responses to adv. both rescue strategies resulted in significant reductions in serum viral load and alt levels, and were associated with high rate of serological outcomes in our hospital. patients and methods ninety-seven chb patients with hbv dna > 2 log10 copies/ml 48 w...

conclusions the ops is a good stand-alone pain score and is better than the nrs for defining mild and moderate pain. it may even be used to supplement nrs when it is indicative of mild or moderate pain. patient and methods a total of 1021 paired readings of the ops and nrs of 93 patients who underwent laparotomy and used patient-controlled analgesia were evaluated. acute pain service (aps) pers...

Purpose Mountaineering and related activities are increasingly becoming popular accompanied by an increase in medical incidents. Emergency operations mountainous terrain time-critical often pose major logistical challenges for rescuers. Drones expected to improve the operational performance of mountain However, they not yet widely used rescue missions. This paper examines determinants that driv...