Acute lung injury (ALI) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Despite improved understanding of the pathogenesis of ALI, supportive care with a lung protective strategy of mechanical ventilation remains the only treatment with a proven survival advantage. Most clinical trials in ALI have targeted mechanically ventilated patients. Past trials of pharmacolog...

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a critical illness syndrome with a mortality rate of 25-40%. Despite recent advances of our understanding of the pathophysiology of ALI, no pharmacologic therapies have been proven effective. The key pathogenesis of ALI is the activation of the coagulation cascade and impaired fibrinolysis, resulting in extensive fibrin and hyaline membrane deposition. Activated prote...

We solve the integral equation describing the propagation of light in an isothermal plane-parallel atmosphere of optical thickness τ∗, adopting a uniform thermalization parameter ǫ. The solution given by the ALI method, widely used in the field of stellar atmospheres modelling, is compared to the exact solution. Graphs are given that illustrate the accuracy of the ALI solution as a function of ...

A study of 50 sugar maples {Acer saccharum) along Gates Mills Boulevard in Gates Mills, Ohio, showed that a tree's sap-sugar concentration tended to increase with decreasing tree health and increasing soil salt concentration. Relative tree health was determined by growth ring analysis. Salt concentration in soil was determined by measuring soil extract conductivity. Extract conductivity correla...

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This article is result of library research with a normative legal approach. Legal materials and data were obtained from Islamic norms regarding inheritance khuntsa the texts Qur'an Hadith, as well opinions jurists. thesis discusses distribution based on opinion Imam Ali As-Shobuni Abu Hanifah. People who do not have clear gender status, male female, are called in law. One problems determining r...

Evaluation of the tapered PMMA fiber sensor response due to the ionic interaction within electrolytic solutions M. Batumalay, H.A. Rahman, W. Kam, Y.S. Ong, F. Ahmad, R. Zakaria, S.W. Harun & H. Ahmad a Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia b Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universit...

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