BACKGROUND The alveolar recruitment maneuver (RM) has been reported to improve oxygenation in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and may be related to reduced extravascular lung water (EVLW) in animals. This study was designed to investigate the effects of RM on EVLW in patients with ARDS. METHODS An open label, prospective, randomized controlled trial including patients with ARDS was...

Balanced generalized weighing matrices are applied for constructing a family of symmetric designs with parameters (1 + qr(rm+1 − 1)/(r − 1), rm, rm−1(r − 1)/q), where m is any positive integer and q and r = (qd − 1)/(q − 1) are prime powers, and a family of non-embeddable quasi-residual 2−((r+1)(rm+1−1)/(r−1), rm(r+ 1)/2, rm(r− 1)/2) designs, where m is any positive integer and r = 2d− 1, 3 · 2...

Remote monitoring (RM) of homebound heart failure (HF) patients has previously been shown to reduce hospital admissions. We conducted a pilot trial of ambulatory, non-homebound patients recently hospitalized for HF to determine whether RM could be successfully implemented in the ambulatory setting. Eligible patients from Massachusetts General Hospital (n = 150) were randomized to a control grou...

‎Let $mathscr{L}$ be a commutative subspace lattice generated by finite many commuting independent nests on a complex separable Hilbert space $mathbf{H}$ with ${rm dim}hspace{2pt}mathbf{H}geq 3$‎, ‎${rm Alg}mathscr{L}$‎ ‎the CSL algebra associated with $mathscr{L}$ and $mathscr{M}$ be an algebra containing ${rm Alg}mathscr{L}$‎. ‎This article is aimed at describing the form of‎ ‎additive mapppi...

Suppose that $A$ is a semi-simple and commutative Banach algebra. In this paper we try to characterize the character space of the Banach algebra $C_{rm{BSE}}(Delta(A))$ consisting of all  BSE-functions on $Delta(A)$ where $Delta(A)$ denotes the character space of $A$. Indeed, in the case that $A=C_0(X)$ where $X$ is a non-empty locally compact Hausdroff space, we give a complete characterizatio...