RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To identify the prevalence of clinical pathways (CPs) in Swedish intensive care units (ICUs) and to explore the quality, content and evidence base of the documents. METHODS A descriptive and explorative survey of all Swedish ICUs (N84) and a review of submitted examples of CPs (n12) were conducted. RESULTS CPs were in use at 20% of the Swedish ICUs. There was ...

The genetic basis for the structural diversity of capsule polysaccharide (CPS) in Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 19 (consisting of types 19F, 19A, 19B, and 19C) has been determined for the first time. In this study, the genetic basis for the 19A and 19C serotypes is described, and the structures of all four serogroup 19 cps loci and their flanking sequences are compared. Transformation stud...

Central pain syndrome (CPS) is a debilitating condition that affects a large number of patients with a primary lesion or dysfunction in the CNS, most commonly due to spinal cord injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis lesions. The pathophysiological processes underlying the development and maintenance of CPS are poorly understood. We have recently shown, in an animal model of CPS, that neurons i...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are being used in many safety-critical applications. Due tothe important role in virtually every aspect of human life, it is crucial to make sure thata CPS works properly before its deployment. However, formal verification of CPS is acomputationally hard problem. Therefore, lightweight verification methods such as testingand monitoring of the CPS are...

Strains 6, 15, 98, 110, and 145 of Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A vary in capsule size, animal virulence, and susceptibility to in vitro phagocytosis. The isolated capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) differ in monosaccharide composition ratios and molecular size, as determined by gel filtration. The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the binding of CPSs to capsule-free mutants of...

Vitellogenic stage carp ovaries were collected aseptically and the cells of ovarian follicles were dispersed by trypsin treatment and cultivated as monolayer. Control cultures were grown in medium M199 alone. Media for experimental cultures were supplemented either with 100 µl ml-1 of CPH and CPS-carp GnRH (cultivated pituitary cell secretion affected by 10-6, 10-8, 10-10 M carp GnRH). The dire...

In this paper, we discuss the CP domain of embedded clauses in Spanish, specifically in the realm of que+embedded question constructions first discussed in Plann 1982. We argue for the existence of (at least) two distinct CP layers (following previous work by Lahiri (2002) Demonte & FernándezSoriano (2009), and Suñer (1991, 1993)). Following Suñer (1991, 1993), we argue that there are two seman...

6 Abstract Complex problem solving (CPS) emerged in the 7 last 30 years in Europe as a new part of the psychology of 8 thinking and problem solving. This paper introduces into the 9 field and provides a personal view. Also, related concepts 10 like macrocognition or operative intelligence will be 11 explained in this context. Two examples for the assessment 12 of CPS, Tailorshop and MicroDYN, a...

Coordination polymers (CPs) or metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted considerable attention because of the tunable diversity of structures and functions. A 4,4'-bipyridine molecule, which is a simple, linear, exobidentate, and rigid ligand molecule, can construct two-dimensional (2D) square grid type CPs. Only the 2D-CPs with appropriate metal cations and counter anions exhibit flexibi...

INTRODUCTION We prospectively evaluated whether hepatic steatosis (HS) and the presence of carotid plaques (CPs) impacts on achieving minimal disease activity (MDA) in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients starting tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α blockers treatment. METHODS Before starting treatment with TNF-α blockers, consecutive PsA subjects with an active disease were evaluated for the presenc...