The role of endogenous nitric oxide (NO) in modulating the excitatory response of distal airways to vagal stimulation is unknown. In decerebrate, ventilated, open-chest piglets aged 3-10 days, lung resistance (RL) was partitioned into tissue resistance (Rti) and airway resistance (Raw) by using alveolar capsules. Changes in RL, Rti, and Raw were evaluated during vagal stimulation at increasing ...

We adapt an algorithm (RTI) for identifying (learning) a deterministic real-time automaton (DRTA) to the setting of positive timed strings (or time-stamped event sequences). An DRTA can be seen as a deterministic finite state automaton (DFA) with time constraints. Because DRTAs model time using numbers, they can be exponentially more compact than equivalent DFA models that model time using stat...

With the development of time management service of Run-Time Infrastructure (RTI), it is necessary to consider an efficient design approach and an algorithm of Greatest Available Logical Time (GALT) computation. However, many time management services of existing RTIs have difficult in modification and extension. Although some RTIs avoid this difficulty through modular design, they comply with no...

This paper describes the implementation of RTI-Kit, a modular software package to realize runtime infrastructure (RTI) software for distributed simulations such as those for the High Level Architecture. RTI-Kit software spans a wide variety of computing platforms, ranging from tightly coupled machines such as shared memory multiprocessors and cluster computers to distributed workstations connec...

BACKGROUND Occurrence of respiratory tract infection (RTI) or gastrointestinal tract infection (GTI) is known to vary between individuals and may be a confounding factor in the analysis of the results of intervention trials. We aimed at developing a prognostic model for predicting individual incidences of RTI and GTI on the basis of data collected in a hand-hygiene intervention trial among adul...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study is to describe the inter-province variability of Road Traffic Injury (RTI) mortality on Spanish roads, adjusted for vehicle-kilometres travelled, and to assess the possible role played by the following explicative variables: sociodemographic, structural, climatic and risk conducts. METHODS An ecological study design was employed. The mean annual rate of...

Drug resistance resulting from reverse transcriptase (RT) mutations is one of the main obstacles to successful hepatitis B virus (HBV) therapy. Indeed, HBV treatment guidelines recommend HBV genotypic resistance testing for patients receiving nucleos(t)ide RT inhibitors (N(t)RTIs) who develop virological failure. N(t)RTI-resistance mutations at 10 RT positions have been well characterized in ph...

Reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) is a widespread technique for studying and documenting cultural heritage artifacts encompassing textural information. The principle capturing an object from static camera position by changing the direction of incident light in each image. coupling this approach with multispectral (Multispectral RTI) has shown promising results recent years. Considering a...

OBJECTIVE Different sources are available for the surveillance of Road Traffic injuries (RTI), but studied individually they present several limits. In this paper we present the results of a surveillance integrating healthcare data with the data gathered by the municipal police in the southeastern area of Rome (630,000 inhabitants) during the year 2003. METHODS The Municipal police RTI report...

Introduction Thailand has the highest mortality from road traffic injury (RTI) in the world. There are usually higher incident rates of RTI in Thailand over long holidays such as New Year and Songkran. To our knowledge, there have been no studies that describe the impact of emergency medical service (EMS) utilization by RTI patients in Thailand. We sought to determine the outcomes of EMS utiliz...