AIM To compare a dipeptide- and tripeptide-based enteral formula with a standard enteral formula for tolerance and nutritional outcomes in abdominal surgery patients. METHODS A retrospective study was performed to assess the differences between a whole-protein formula (WPF) and a dipeptide- and tripeptide-based formula (PEF) in clinical outcomes. Seventy-two adult intensive care unit (ICU) pa...

Window Toolkit (AWT) was the first Java’s technology/component set for building graphical user interfaces (GUI). AWT UIs were very slow to run with limited functionalities due to the small number of provided components. Just-in-time compilers (JIT) were introduced in order to improve applications’ execution and performance and Java Foundation Classes (JFC) technology was released also to improv...

Presented is an application of wave potential formulation (WPF) together with domain reduction method (DRM) to modeling earthquake soil structure interaction (ESSI) behavior in horizontally layered ground under inclined incident seismic waves. Wave used develop a spatially varying, field from Primary (P) and Secondary (S) waves that propagate through ground. Developed then effective forces for ...

An important factor that slows down the growth of multimedia networked services is that authors, publishers and providers of multimedia data are reluctant to allow the distribution of their documents in a networked environment. This is due to the fact that it is easy to reproduce digital data in their exact original form, which encourages copyright violation, data misappropriation and abuse. Wa...

Purpose: Nowadays, MVVM (Model-View View-Model) is the proven architecture for distributed software development. It encourages development of components by different independent teams and easy integration at final stage. The individual researcher prefers direct coding or tightly coupled modules. Model rapid efficient but might create maintainability issues later. So from day one, we should intr...

In this work, windmill palm fiber (WPF), alkali-treated fiber (AF) without hemicellulose and bleached fiber (BF) without lignin were prepared and buried in soil for 30, 60 and 90 days. The surface morphology, chemical composition, crystallinity degree, mechanical properties, and residual mass rate of the samples, before and after biodegradation, were investigated. According to the results, soil...

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are important elements in bone biology. We herein report the expression profiles of zebrafish bmp3 (zbmp3) as demonstrated by real-time PCR and in situ hybridization. The expression of zbmp3 was highly detectable by real-time PCR from 1 day post-fertilization (1 dpf) to 2 weeks post-fertilization (2 wpf) and peaked at 1 wpf. For in situ hybridization experimen...

This study compared workplace protection factors (WPFs) for five different contaminants (endotoxin, fungal spores, (1→3)-β-D-glucan, total particle mass, and total particle number) provided by an N95 elastomeric respirator (ER) and an N95 filtering facepiece respirator (FFR). We previously reported size-selective WPFs for total particle numbers for the ER and FFR, whereas the current article is...

An original data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is to evaluate each decision-making unit (DMU) with a set of most favorable weights of performance indices. The efficient DMUs obtained from the original DEA construct an efficient (bestpractice) frontier. The original DEA can be considered to identify good (efficient) performers in the most favorable scenario. For the purpose of identifying bad...