The central venous pressure (CVP) is the most frequently used variable to guide fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients, although its use has been challenged. In this viewpoint, we use a question and answer format to highlight the potential advantages and limitations of using CVP measurements to guide fluid resuscitation.

The radon simulation model has been used to simulate radon concentration response during production drawdown and two flowrate transient tests in vapor-dominated systems. Comparison of model simulation with experimental data from field tests provides insight in the analysis of reservoir phenomena such as propagation of boiling fronts, and estimates of reservoir properties of porosity and permeab...

Gravity drainage is the main mechanism which controls the oil recovery from fractured reservoirs in both gas-cap drive and gas injection processes. The liquid bridge formed between two adjacent matrix blocks is responsible for capillary continuity phenomenon. The accurate determination of gas-liquid interface profile of liquid bridge is crucial to predict fracture capillary pressure precisely. ...

In this paper, an analytical solution for computing the linear plastic stresses and critical temperature and pressure in a FGM hollow cylinder under the internal pressure and temperature is developed. It has been assumed that the modulus of elasticity and thermal coefficient of expansion were varying through thickness of the FGM material according to a power law relationship. The Poisson's rati...

The choice of the term drawdown automata is deliberate; that is exactly the purpose for which we’ll use them. A cellular automaton, as a whole, passes through a succession of configurations corresponding to the states of its cells. The automaton goes from one configuration to another at discrete intervals of time, the states of all its cells changing in parallel. The change of state of a cell i...

The critically ill are particularly vulnerable to pressure sore development. These expensive and often painful complications have been largely ignored for many years and the entire problem has been managed by nursing staff. Current methods for identifying patients at risk are inadequate and subjective. Scoring systems have been known to over-predict those at risk and this maybe because they fre...