Neurologic disability is a feared outcome of resuscitation from cardiac arrest. The study by Rech and colleagues in the previous issue of Critical Care describes the use of neuron-specific enolase to inform an early prognosis in patients who survived in-hospital cardiac arrest. In their study 'none of the patients had a DNR order and there was no limitation of life support.' As a result, 10% of...

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The current study evaluated the general toxicity, antioxidant, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic activity of extracts obtained from the rhizomes of Eremostachys azerbaijanica (Labiatae) as well as analyzed the potent extracts using GC-MS. Extracts of E. azerbaijanica in n-hexane, dichloromethane (DCM) and methanol (MeOH) were prepared using a Soxhlet apparatus. The antioxidant activity of the extrac...

Abstract Introduction Increased slow-wave activity (SWA) following sleep loss is a well-established physiological marker of increased pressure. Recent research found SWA changes in response to partially accounted for next-day decrements positive affect (Finan et al., 2015; 2017). To our knowledge, however, this line inquiry has been limited adults. Recently, we greater during night healthy pred...

(Dipl.-Ing. Benjamin Bergner, TU Kaiserslautern, Lehrgebiet Stadtsoziologie, Pfaffenbergstraße 95, 67663 Kaiserslautern, [email protected]) (Dr.-Ing. Peter Zeile, TU Kaiserslautern, Fachgebiet cpe, Pfaffenbergstraße 95, 67663 Kaiserslautern, [email protected]) (Dr. Georgios Papastefanou, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, B2,1 ,68152 Mannheim, georgios.papastefanou@gesis....

We present an extension, for nonlinear optimization under linear constraints, of an algorithm for quadratic programming using a trust region idea introduced by Ye and Tse [Math. Programming, 44 (1989), pp. 157–179] and extended by Bonnans and Bouhtou [RAIRO Rech. Opér., 29 (1995), pp. 195–217]. Due to the nonlinearity of the cost, we use a linesearch in order to reduce the step if necessary. We...