The univariate conditioning of copulas is studied, yielding a construction method for copulas based on an a priori given copula. Based on the gluing method, g-ordinal sum of copulas is introduced and a representation of copulas by means of g-ordinal sums is given. Though different right conditionings commute, this is not the case of right and left conditioning, with a special exception of Archi...

INTRODUCTION Sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) has been reported to have a higher case fatality rate than other causes of ALI. However, differences in the severity of illness in septic vs. non-septic ALI patients might explain this finding. METHODS 520 patients enrolled in the Improving Care of ALI Patients Study (ICAP) were prospectively characterized as having sepsis or non sepsis-indu...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor Professor Vladimir B Bajic for his invaluable guidance and providing me inspiration to work on the problems of this thesis. I am grateful to him for his patience, support and understanding in helping me balance my personal life with my research during my PhD. I have specially enjoyed the freedom given by him, which i...

Department of Chemistry, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran 2 Department of Chemistry, Teacher Training University, 15614, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Chemistry, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran 4 Institute of Materials Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 5 Department of Chemistry, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran 6 Department of Chemistry, Razi Universi...

Roman Hossein Khonsari,* Gentiane Monsel, Marc Thellier, and Éric Caumes Service de Chirurgie Maxillofaciale, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Sorbonne Univer...

Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3E6, CANADA, [email protected] Barış Balcıog̃lu Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G8, CANADA, [email protected] Opher Baron Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3E6, CANADA, Opher.Baron@R...

Zahra Fathifar, Hossein Saeedi Hasankandi, Fatemeh Sadeghi-Ghyassi. Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Central Library, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PhD Student, Health Information Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Research Center for Evidence Based Medicine,...

Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam*, Fereshteh Ghadiri , Maziar Shojaei , Nasim Zamani a,b a Toxicological Research Center, Department of Clinical Toxicology, Loghman-Hakim Hospital, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran b Excellence Center of Clinical Toxicology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran Department of Neurology, Loghman-Hakim Ho...

Receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) is a marker of alveolar type I cells and is elevated in the pulmonary edema fluid of patients with acute lung injury (ALI). We tested the hypothesis that RAGE in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) would be elevated in experimental models of direct ALI characterized by alveolar epithelial cell injury. We developed ELISA measurements for RAGE and ...