Sepsis is defined as a suspected or proven infection in the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) . From the beginning of a systemic infection and over sepsis peaks of immune-mediators characteristic of SIRS and for the compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS) may be seen in sequence or in parallel 2 that enlighten the reason why broad investigation of inflammatory bioma...

The issue of free-text versus controlled vocabulary is examined in this article. The history of the issue, which is seen as beginning with the debate over title term indexing in the last century, is reviewed and then attention is turned to questions which have not been satisfactorily addressed by previous research. The point is made that these questions need to be answered if we are to design r...

This paper investigates the possibility of a frequentist interpretation of imprecise probabilities, by generalizing the approach of Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi. That is, by studying, in the case of games of chance, under which assumptions imprecise probabilities can be satisfactorily estimated from data. In fact, estimability on the basis of finite amounts of data is a necessary condition for i...

Tryptic activation of prototoxin of Clostridium botulinum type E increased the lethal toxicity by 250-fold, but no compatible increase in the antitoxin-combining power resulted. The formol toxoid derived from prototoxin and that from trypsin-activated 12S toxin were the same in the antigenic specificity, but prototoxin toxoid stimulated formation of a larger amount of antitoxin in guinea pigs a...

A simple technique for the restoration of color images degraded by lossy compression is presented. The proposed approach deals with the YIQ color space and processes the luminance component by means of a recursive algorithm based on fuzzy models. This design choice combines effectiveness and simplicity. Indeed, the method can satisfactorily reduce quantization errors produced by lossy compressi...

Prompt defibrillation after cardiac arrest is necessary to save life. Inexpensive systems providing defibrillation facilities in the community of the Highlands have been devised, one for Inverness town practices, and one for rural practices. Both systems work by 'blind' defibrillation, once the clinical diagnosis of cardiac arrest is confirmed. Acute anti-arrhythmic drugs and intravenous infusi...

The secretion of trypsin and chymotrypsin into the duodenum in response to secretin and CCK-PZ has been compared with the faecal excretion of the enzymes following similar stimulation in 47 individuals undergoing clinical investigation. The faecal output of chymotrypsin correlated well, but trypsin less satisfactorily, with the secretion of the respective enzymes into the duodenum. The faecal e...

Near threshold neutral pion electroproduction on the deuteron is studied in the framework of baryon chiral perturbation theory at next–to–leading order in the chiral expansion. We develop the multipole decomposition for pion production off spin-1 particles appropriate for the threshold region. The existing data at photon virtuality k = −0.1GeV can be described satisfactorily. Furthermore, the p...

Bumetanide is an effective diuretic for the treatment of ascites. Fifteen out of 17 patients with chronic liver disease responded satisfactorily and the incidence of hepatic encephalopathy and electrolyte disturbances was similar to that previously observed with frusemide. Colicky abdominal pain was reported in three patients but no other adverse effects were noted. An unexpected response was o...

In this paper, to improve the uniform convergence of the known Lagrange interpolation polynomials, a new triangle interpolation operator of Bernstein type is constructed by using the method of two revised nodes. It is proved that the constructed operator converges uniformly to arbitrary continuous functions with period on the whole axis. The best approximation order of the operator is then obta...