Remedial enhancements to an existing pump-and-treat (P&T) system were selected for a pilot study to address trichloroethene (TCE)-impacted groundwater within a fractured bedrock system extending into a residential neighborhood. The focus for implementing the remedial enhancements was the farthest downgradient area of the dissolved plume not fully responding to P&T system operations due to pumpi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the medical decisions at end-of-life of patients admitted at HU/UFSC and to compare these decisions and the profile of patients who died in the intensive care unit (ICU) to those who died in medical (MW) and surgical wards (SW). METHODS This is a retrospective and observational study. Demographic data, clinical features, treatment and the end-of-life care decisions of a...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review and evaluate the available scientific evidence on the effectiveness of chlorhexidine dentifrice or gel (CHX DF/gel) compared to chlorhexidine mouthwash (CHX MW) on plaque, bleeding, gingival inflammation and tooth discoloration scores. MATERIAL AND METHODS PubMed-MEDLINE, Cochrane-CENTRAL and EMBASE databases were searched to identify appropriate studies. ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that superiority of biphasic waveform (BW) over monophasic waveform (MW) defibrillation shocks is attributable to less intracellular calcium (Ca(i)) transient heterogeneity. BACKGROUND The mechanism by which BW shocks have a higher defibrillation efficacy than MW shocks remains unclear. METHODS We simultaneously mapped epicardi...

Low density lipoprotein molecular weight (LDL MW) correlates positively with coronary artery disease in cholesterol-fed nonhuman primates. To evaluate this in human beings with coronary artery disease (CAD) we measured LDL MW in 93 volunteers undergoing coronary angiography (47 controls and 46 CAD patients). LDL MW of CAD patients was less than that of controls (patients, 2.79 +/- 0.17 g/mumol;...

2 The project "Smart Domestic Appliances in Sustainable Energy Systems (Smart-A)" is supported by the European Commission through the IEE programme (contract no. The sole responsibility for the content of this report lies with the authors. It does not represent the opinion of the European Communities. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information con...

Isolated reports have long suggested a similarity in content and thought processes across mind wandering (MW) during waking, and dream mentation during sleep. This overlap has encouraged speculation that both "daydreaming" and dreaming may engage similar brain mechanisms. To explore this possibility, we systematically examined published first-person experiential reports of MW and dreaming and f...

Mental workload (MW)-based adaptive system has been found to be an effective approach to enhance the performance of human-machine interaction and to avoid human error caused by overload. However, MW estimated from the spontaneously generated electroencephalogram (EEG) was found to be task-specific. In existing studies, EEG-based MW classifier can work well under the task used to train the class...

Preparation of chitosan (CS) microspheres as a novel drug delivery vehicle for intranasal immunization using high, medium and low CS molecular weight (MW) was investigated in this study. Diphtheria toxoid (DT) was used as a model antigen. The emulsion-solidification method was adopted for microencapsulation of DT.  In the first step, following the purification of semi-crude DT by the ion-exchan...