From 2008 to 2013 there was a 25% increase in the absolute number of hemodialysis sessions (10,022,962; 12,561,623). This resulted in an estimated overall increase of 18% in the ratio of patients on hemodialysis per million population (352 pmp; 416 pmp). There were considerable differences among Brazilian States regarding the prevalence of patients with ESRD on hemodialysis. In 2013, the preval...

This paper compares two optimal energy management methods for parallel hybrid electric vehicles using an Automatic Manual Transmission (AMT). A control-oriented model of the powertrain and vehicle dynamics is built first. The energy management is formulated as a typical optimal control problem to trade off the fuel consumption and gear shifting frequency under admissible constraints. The Dynami...

Conventional isotachophoresis (ITP) can be used for pre-concentration of a single analyte, but preconcentration multiple analytes is time consuming due to handling and washing steps required the extensive buffer optimization procedure. In this work, we present programmable microfluidic platform (PMP) demonstrate fully automated ITP analytes. By interfacing PMP with ITP, selection repetitive pro...

We introduce a new type of graphical model that we call a “memory factor network” (MFN). We show how to use MFNs to model the structure inherent in many types of data sets. We also introduce an associated message-passing style algorithm called “proactive message passing” (PMP) that performs inference on MFNs. PMP comes with convergence guarantees and is efficient in comparison to competing algo...

the probable maximum precipitation (pmp) is the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular geographical location at a certain time of the year. in this study a physically based method was compared with a statistical procedure to calculate pmp in the southwest arid regions of iran. in order to estimate pmp using a...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare diagnosis with an incidence of 1-2 per million. Most cases originate from an appendix which ruptures and releases mucin into the peritoneal cavity. The progression of the disease results in obstruction and cutaneous leak. Abdominal compartment syndrome is an uncommon complication of peritoneal pseudomyxoma. In the present article, we report the case of a p...

BACKGROUND Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare, chronic, relapsing, diagnostically challenging and poorly understood disease characterized by disseminated mucinous ascites and peritoneal implants. CASE PRESENTATION We report two cases of PMP that represent the two biological variants of disseminated peritoneal adenomucinosis (DPAM)--the benign variant and the peritoneal mucinous carcinomat...

We consider tasks that require users to be aware of the proximity of two 3D surfaces and where one or both of these surfaces is changing over time. We consider situations where users need to quickly and accurately assess when and where the two surfaces approach each other and eventually intersect. Because occlusion in 3D visualisations remains an issue in the perception of such data, a complete...