PURPOSE A medical center's implementation of adult and pediatric parenteral nutrition (PN) algorithms and other strategies for managing PN ingredient shortages are described. SUMMARY In response to nationwide shortages of amino acids and other PN ingredients in 2010, a large Massachusetts teaching hospital undertook a quality-improvement initiative to ensure appropriate patient selection for ...

<p><span lang="EN-US">Kasus infeksi oleh bakteri menjadi sepuluh besar kasus yang mengakibatkan kematian di Indonesia dengan persentase 9,5 %. Penggunaan antibiotik tidak tepat untuk mengatasi masalah dapat menyebabkan resistensi antibakteri. Untuk hal tersebut, banyak dilakukan pengembangan terhadap agen-agen Banyak penelitian menunjukkan bahwa aktivitas antibakteri ditemukan pada ...

Let wλ(t) := (1− t2)λ−1/2, where λ > − 12 , be the Gegenbauer weight function, let ‖ · ‖wλ be the associated L2-norm, ‖f‖wλ = {∫ 1 −1 |f(x)|wλ(x) dx }1/2 , and denote by Pn the space of algebraic polynomials of degree≤ n. We study the best constant cn(λ) in the Markov inequality in this norm ‖pn‖wλ ≤ cn(λ)‖pn‖wλ , pn ∈ Pn , namely the constant cn(λ) := sup pn∈Pn ‖pn‖wλ ‖pn‖wλ . We derive explic...

AIM To determine oral and dental problems in children who are receiving long term intravenous nutrition at home. MATERIALS AND METHODS DESIGN Children who had been at home on parenteral nutrition (PN) for a period of at least 3 months were recruited from the intestinal failure clinic database of a large tertiary nutrition centre. The parents were contacted by email, face to face or telepho...

We present the results of a study of surface wave dispersion across the Arctic region (>60◦N) and compare the estimating group velocity maps with new maps of the body wave phases Pn and Sn. Data recorded at about 250 broadband digital stations from several global and regional networks were used to obtain Rayleigh and Love wave group velocity measurements following more than 1100 events with mag...

Temporal changes in gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence of Paeonia suffruticosa seedlings acclimated to three levels of light environments were investigated. There was a significant photosynthetic depression in seedlings acclimated to a long time of shading and then suddenly exposed to full ambient radiation. The decreased transpiration (E ) resulted from ‘feed-forward effect’ mechanism [...

Synaptic plasticity in the cerebellum is thought to contribute to motor learning. In particular, long-term depression (LTD) at parallel fiber (PF) to Purkinje neuron (PN) excitatory synapses has attracted much attention of neuroscientists as a primary cellular mechanism for motor learning. In contrast, roles of plasticity at cerebellar inhibitory synapses in vivo remain unknown. Here, we have i...

This paper presents a new technique to convert a coarse polygonal geometric model into a smooth surface interpolating the mesh vertices, by improving the principle proposed by Vlachos et al. in their "Curved PN-Triangles". The key idea is to assign to each mesh vertex, a set of three scalar tags that act as shape controllers. These scalar tags (called sharpness, bias, and tension) are used to c...