Sepsis is a common condition in the emergency department that is associated with high mortality. Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) has been used as a simple prognosis predictor for patients with community-acquired pneumonia, gram-negative bacteremia, and severe sepsis or septic shock. To evaluate the performance of RDW to predict in-hospital mortality among septic patients, we conducted a...

This paper addresses the question why standard-compliant IT products often do not interoperate. The findings are based on an institutional analysis, three case studies, and a debate among experts. The paper concludes that some dilemmas cannot be resolved easily. However, many causes can be addressed, in particular those in the area of standard development. Where interoperability is concerned, s...

A year into the COVID 19 pandemic, I reflect upon walls and fact that lockdown has exacerbated humanity's experience of in themselves and, guided by an act pictorial rebelliousness, push for a feminist way re-enchanting them both materially symbolically.

according to the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings, soft storey phenomenon happens in a storey when the lateral stiffness of the storey is lower than 70% of the stiffness of the upper storey, or if it is lower than 80% of the average stiffness of the three upper stories. in the combined structural systems containing moment frames and shear walls, it is possible ...

This paper deals with evaluating the thermal behavior of exterior walls in dwellings of a particular place. Today, there is a huge increase in constructing multi-storey apartment buildings and single-family houses in the city of Yazd, a city with hot dry climate and a rich historical architecture in Iran. Unfortunately, the new methods that are used nowadays to make the envelopes of these dwell...

The machining precision in the scroll compressor with the compliant crank mechanism is not required so high as that with the fixed throw crank, but the sealing performance is better than the later's, therefore the scroll compressor with the compliant crank mechanism operates at higher efficiency. In this study, the characters of the compliant crank mechanism are discussed, while the Oldham coup...

Compliant walking models have been used to account for the gait dynamics associated with compliant lower limbs [1, 2], and leg compliance has been quantified as a form of vertical lower limb stiffness [3]. However, the vertical stiffness of the lower limb has been defined by the ratio of the force change to the displacement change based on a formulation of Kvert ≈ ΔF/Δx without considering a fu...

In this work, the melting process of compounds containing nanoparticles of NePCM in a square hole with different angles affected by two pairs of well-spring heat source on horizontal walls was numerically investigated. Four different configurations of elements were employed to investigate the effect of changes in the position of elements on the horizontal walls of the well-spring landscape on t...

In this paper we describe how future office environments can benefit from the addition of weightless walls—virtual, sound blocking walls created using headsets. We particularly focus on exploring how different interaction techniques can be employed to efficiently create, erase, or edit the layouts of these walls, and envisioning how they could impact the overall office experience. Metaphoricall...