metabolic alkalosis is characterized by high hco3- as it is seen in chronic respiratory acidosis, but ph differentiates the two disorders. there is no characteristic symptom or sign. orthostatic hypotension may be encountered. weakness and hyporeflexia occur if serum k+ is markerdly low. tetany and neuromuscular irritability occur rarely. we report the results of retrospective data analysis of ...

Quantitative scaling into percent signal change is helpful to detect and eliminate “bad” results with abnormal extreme values. While cognitive effects give signal changes on the order of 1% (and larger in the visual and auditory cortices), signal variations of over 10% may arise from motion and other artifacts in the data. Thus, a quantitative check on measured effect size can be used to screen...

The PANDA (AntiProton Annihilations at Darmstadt) experiment is an internal target experiment at the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) for antiprotons at the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt, Germany. A Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is proposed as the central tracker due to its excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities [1]. A spatial resolution of...

The professoriate is a foundational component of higher education and impacts program success. This study describes computer and information sciences (CIS) faculty workloads empirically. Specifically, the study examines the relationship between workloads and individual characteristics, occupational characteristics, and organizational context. The role of faculty in higher education is character...

• Drug use. Cigarettes and alcohol are the most popular drugs among teenagers. They also cause more deaths than all other drugs combined (Office on Smoking and Health, 1990). One high school senior in five smokes daily. About 30 percent engage in binge drinking, contributing to the high rate of alcohol-related traffic accidents. Sixteen percent have used illegal drugs (National Center for Stati...

A dual-frequency Q-/K-band circularly polarized feed with electronic tracking capability was developed. Four circumferentially located, externally coupled, diode controlled, resonant cavities were used at the horn throat to produce phase-center lateral movement. When used to feed a 24-in-diam. offset paraboloidal reflector, an average beam squint from boresight of 10 percent of the 3-dB beamwid...