CONTEXT Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is a cost-effective and minimal invasive respiratory support for the newborn. OBJECTIVE To review the evidence related to various aspects of CPAP usage and its applicability for developing countries. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION We conducted a literature search on PubMed, CENTRAL, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews using the terms CPAP OR ...

Memristors have pinched hysteresis loops in the V − I plane. Ideal memristors are everywhere non-linear, cross at zero and are rotationally symmetric. In this paper we extend memristor theory to produce different types of non-ideality and find that: including a background current (such as an ionic current) moves the crossing point away from zero; including a degradation resistance (that increas...

We study the initial ideal of binomial edge ideal in degree 2 ([in<(JG)]2), associated to a graph G. We computed dimension, depth, Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity, Hilbert function and Betti numbers of [in<(JG)]2 for some classes of graphs. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 05E40, 16E30

We prove the uniqueness of chemical equilibrium for an ideal mixture of ideal gases in a closed, spatially homogeneous volume. Uniqueness, a fundamental issue of chemical physics, is incompletely justified in textbooks and much of the scientific literature. We first reproduce a little known proof by Zel’dovich and show in a more direct fashion than originally presented that a unique equilibrium...

In Yoshida [11], a method to find ideal points and boundary slopes from an ideal triangulation was introduced. But the method only gives a necessary condition which the valuation corresponding to an ideal point satisfies. We give a simple sufficient condition for the existence of the corresponding ideal points.

This report describes metrics to be used to determine the suitability of object database management systems to support multimedia data storage and use. Support at all levels of hardware and software are discussed, as even the most ideal database software cannot operate independent of operating systems, networks, and hardware. A review of the multimedia support provided by current object databas...

in this paper, for a complete lattice l, we introduce interval-valued l-fuzzy ideal (prime ideal) of a near-ring which is an extended notion of fuzzy ideal (prime ideal) of a near-ring. some characterization and properties are discussed.