Background Today the availability of new local anesthetics and the use of analgesics, allow the modulation of the analgesia, maintaining a state of consciousness. An answer to the needs of patients >75 years undergoing surgery is the technique Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC), defined “the middle land” (Figure 1). MAC allows: the modulation of the level of analgesia at different stages of surger...

A 33 yr old man, previously diagnosed with hypothyroidism, presented with decreased level of consciousness and generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizure to Namazi hospital, Shiraz, Iran, during April 2015. The patient later referred with another episode of seizure like attack for which he received phenytoin, carbamazepine and levothyroxine and was discharged. During his last admission, the patient...

the term “spirituality” has been proposed to denote the notion of intellectuality. actually, the former has been derived from the latin words “spiritus” (means breath) and “spirare” (means inhaling or breathing). given the latin translations of the new testament, the term “spiritualis” or spiritual person is an individual whose life is dominated or influenced by the holy spirit or god (1).

In this paper, we propose a class of complex non-orthogonal joint diagonalization (NOJD) algorithms with successive rotations. The proposed methods consider LU or LQ decompositions of the mixing matrices, and propose to solve the NOJD problem via two successive stages: L-stage and U (or Q)-stage. Moreover, as the manifolds of target matrices in these stages could be appropriately parameterized ...

The contactless nature of active magnetic bearings brings about many advantages over the conventional bearing while industrial real-time applications are often limited by the significant complexity of control algorithms. This paper presents the application of an LQ controller to an active magnetic bearing system (AMB). Two control strategies are presented and compared: local and global. In the ...