The severity of pulmonary aspiration depends mainly on the acidity of the aspirate. Mist. magnesium trisilicate (MMT) has been used for many years at the maternity unit in General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, to neutralise the acidic gastric contents in all obstetric patients requiring caesarian section. This preliminary study shows that a single dose of 15 mls of MMT before general anaesthesia rais...

A novel heat-sealing performance is achieved by polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites reinforced by ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and montmorillonite (MMT). Appropriate nanocomposite design leads to hermetic seals with a general peelable/easy-open character across the broadest possible sealing temperature range. Observations of the fracture seal surfaces by infrared spectroscopy and electron microsco...

We describe a new survey for unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs), stars traveling with such extreme velocities that dynamical ejection from a massive black hole (MBH) is their most likely origin. We investigate the possible contribution of unbound runaway stars, and show that the physical properties of binaries constrain low mass runaways to bound velocities. We measure radial velocities for HVS...

The nanocomposites of ethylene octene copolymer (Engage ) with an organically modified (dimethyldioctadecyl quaternary ammonium chloride) montmorillonite (M-MMT) clay were synthesized by using a solution intercalation technique. The intercalation of M-MMT layers for M-MMT loading of 2.5–7.5% was verified by the shift of X-ray diffraction peak to a lower angle, showing change in basal d-spacing ...

novel citric acid modified starch-carboxy methyl cellulose (cmc) -montmorillonite (mmt) bionanocomposite films were prepared by casting method and the effect of mmt on the structural and physical properties of the starch-cmc biocomposites was studied. x-ray diffraction test showed thatstrong polar interactions between the hydroxyl groups present in the starch and cmc chains and in the silicate ...

In this paper, we present multicast traffic engineering and we compare it to unicast traffic engineering. We study the advantages given by the integration of multicasting and MPLS. We present current proposals for multicast traffic engineering and using MPLS network. We describe our approach, the MPLS multicast tree (MMT) protocol. In order to reduce forwarding states and enhance scalability, M...

We assess the influence of co-occurring psychiatric disorders on retention in 189 opioid dependent patients in a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and determine the incidence of psychiatric co-morbidity during an 18-month follow-up period. About 68.5 % were retained in the MMT. Neither co-occurring mental disorders (chi-square = 0.303, df = 1, p = 0.622) nor methadone doses [85 (88.9) vs. 7...

Another main plank in their argument is that MMT provides a better account of syllogistic reasoning than the probability heuristics model (PHM) [5]. However, the meta-analysis [6] they report comparing PHM with MMT used accuracy as a measure but did not allow PHM to predict no valid conclusion responses. This move contradicts PHM in which no valid conclusion responses are predicted by one of it...