Head injuries account for significant proportion of neurosurgical admissions and bed occupancy. Patients with head injuries also consume significant proportions of neurosurgical resources. A prospective 6-month study has been carried out to evaluate the expenditure incurred on head injury patients in a modern neurosurgical center equipped with state of the art infrastructure. Costing areas incl...

INTRODUCTION Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a treatment option for hematological diseases and immunodeficiency. It is frequently used today. BMT predisposes patients to upper airway infections and its complications, such as rhinosinusitis (RS). Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, viral infections, antibiotic therapy, graft versus host disease (GVHD) are rhinosinusitis predisposing conditions. A...

AIMS Our objectives were (i) to compare the discriminatory performance of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction risk score (TIMI RS), Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa in Unstable angina: Receptor Suppression Using Integrilin Therapy risk score (PURSUIT RS), and Global Registry of Acute Cardiac Events risk score (GRACE RS) for in-hospital and 1 year mortality across the broad spectrum of non-S...

This study investigates a powerful model, targeted to subjective assessments, based on pairwise comparisons. It provides a proof that a distance-based inconsistency reduction transforms an inconsistent pairwise comparisons (PC) matrix into a consistent PC matrix which is generated by the geometric means of rows of a given inconsistent PC matrix. The distance-based inconsistency indicator was de...

AIMS OF THE STUDY By using genealogical methods in atypical females with Rett syndrome (RS) we looked for support for the assumption that atypical RS cases are true variants of classical RS. SUBJECTS We selected from the Swedish national RS series the "milder" RS cases, 10 years of age and older, fulfilling the criteria for the "forme fruste" (FF) type of RS. For 32 FF cases we were able to c...

It is shown that a localized four-dimensional Einstein term, induced by quantum corrections, modifies significantly the law of gravity in a Randall-Sundrum brane world. In particular, the short-distance behavior of gravity changes from fiveto four-dimensional, while, depending on the values of parameters, there can be an intermediate range where gravity behaves as in five dimensions. The spectr...

COSMO-RS is a novel and efficient method for the a-priori prediction of thermodynamic properties of mixtures. It is based on unimolecular quantum chemical calculations that provide the necessary information for the evaluation of molecular interactions in liquids. Thus, the method provides an alternative to group contribution methods such us UNIFAC for the true prediction of activity coefficient...

A model of an Automated Storage and Retrieval System built using the SIMAN/CINEMA simulation software is presented in this paper. A detailed description of the system is given. The modeling issues that are raised by the nature of the system and by the requirements of the analyses to be made are explained. As the model involves both SIMAN and FORTRAN code, a description of various tasks accompli...