The range of data-gathering equipment for patient monitoring is rapidly increasing. Unfortunately there is little uniformity in the display of information. The array of monitors selected at the author's hospital includes a carbon dioxide (C02) analyser, non-invasive arterial pressure monitor and pulse oximeter. To find the five values for the end tidal CO2• systolic and diastolic blood pressure...

The low enthalpy program developped in the Paris Basin provides the opportunity for studying the gas geochemistry of the calcareous aquifer of the Dogger. Hydrocarbons and C02 are mainly biogenic, He displays high concentrations. He, Ar and N2 have multiple origins (radioactive decay, atmospheric migration, biochemical processes). The distribution of the gases in the zones of the basin varies i...

Background. Ventricular fibrillation has deleterious metabolic and functional consequences for the heart. This study had two purposes: first, to define the effects of ventricular fibrillation during hypoxia on energy metabolism and accumulation of intracellular Na' and, second, to test whether the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation can be predicted from functional or metabolic parameters. M...

Breath possesses unique advantages as a specimen for clinical chemical analyses, including the continuous equilibrium of gases and volatile substances between expired alveolar air and the pulmonary blood circulation. Substances amenable to analysis in breath include 02, C02, CO,and other gases, volatile organic compounds, and many drugs with sufficiently high vapor pressures at physiological te...

We describe recent results on the CO/C02/H20 composition of comets and compare these with models of the protoplanetary disk. We argue that the cometary observations require reactions on grain surfaces to convert CO to CO2 and also require formation between the CO and CO2 snow lines. This then requires very early mixing of cometesimals in the protoplanetary disk analogous to the mixing described...

Options are believed to contain unique information on the risk-neutral moment generating function (MGF) or the risk-neutral probability density function (PDF) of the underlying asset. This paper applies the wavelet method to approximate the implied risk-neutral MGF from option prices. Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to show how the risk-neutral MGF can be obtained using the wavelet meth...

In the pursuit of obtaining largest graphs of given maximum degree ∆ and diameter D, many construction techniques have been developed. Compounding of graphs is one such technique. In this paper, by means of the compounding of complete graphs into a Moore bipartite graph of diameter 6, we obtain a family of large graphs of the same diameter. For ∗Research supported in part by the Australian Rese...

A synthesis of [“Qcopolamine capable of clinical delivery of this agent in high specific activity is described. The precursor [“Clformaldehyde was produced by catalytic oxidation of [“C]CH,OH over metallic silver and was used to N-“C-methylate norscopolamine using aqueous neutral potassium phosphite as the reducing agent. The labeling reaction was complete after 5min at 7580°C and the [“Clscopo...