Methodology: The Injury severity Score (ISS) is the default world standard for assessing the severity of multiple injuries. ISS is a mathematical fit to empirical field data. It is demonstrated that ISS is proportional to the Gibbs/Shannon Entropy. A new Entropy measure of morbidity from blunt force trauma including co-morbidities is derived based on the von Neumann Entropy, called the Abbrevia...

Background: The built environment of the International Space Station (ISS) is a highly specialized space in terms of both physical characteristics and habitation requirements. It is unique with respect to conditions of microgravity, exposure to space radiation, and increased carbon dioxide concentrations. Additionally, astronauts inhabit a large proportion of this environment. The microbial com...

"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." (Thoreau) There still is a lot we don't know yet about the environmental, health and safety impact of nanomaterials, but at least scientists are making progress in identifying the gaps – the 'known unknowns' as they call it. A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU...

With fully conclusive findings about the toxicity of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) still up in the air, research on biomedical applications of CNTs is pushing full steam ahead. Adding to the list of potential concerns, a recent nanotoxicology study by a U.S.-Chinese research team looked into the impact of carbon nanotubes on male reproductive health. The translocation and biodistribution of nanoparti...

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Background: In-stent restenosis (ISR) usually develops from stent neointimal hyperplasia (SNH), which will seriously weaken the effect of treatment. In this study, both SNH and ISR were classified as in-stent stenosis (ISS), a non-invasive parameter – myocardial blood flow index (MBFI) was used to analyze its value in diagnosis abnormalities. Objectives: Analyzing application MBFI ISS. Patients...

Business processes (BPs) and information systems (ISs) mutually affect each other in nontrivial ways. Quality issues may arise from missing alignment. Although simulation is a powerful approach to predict the performance of BPs and ISs, current approaches lack their integration in simulation. We propose a holistic performance prediction approach to adequately reflect the mutual impact between B...

The paper introduces sufficient conditions for input-to-state stability (ISS) of a class of impulsive systems with jump maps that depend on time. Such systems can naturally represent an interconnection of several impulsive systems with different impulse time sequences. Using a concept of ISS-Lyapunov function for subsystems a small-gain type theorem equipped with a new dwell-time condition to v...

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Main results After adjustment for age, age of onset of disorder, sex, and baseline ratings, CT groups showed greater reductions in symptoms after 6 months than the WLC group (BDI, p=0.02; ISS-DEP, p=0.01; ISS-ACT, p=0.007; and ISS-PC, p=0.01) and greater improvement in global functioning as shown by change on the GAF (p=0.05) (table). CT group patients showed greater improvement in social activ...