OBJECTIVE The glutathione system plays an essential role in antioxidant defense after surgery. We assessed the effects of intensive insulin treatment (IIT) on glutathione synthesis rate and redox balance in cancer patients, who had developed stress hyperglycemia after major surgery. METHODS We evaluated 10 non-diabetic cancer patients the day after radical abdominal surgery combined with intr...

M ERCHANDISE trade is by far the best documented aspect of international economic relations. Trade data therefore offer a rich source of information on patterns and shifts in the allocation of economic activity around the globe. In this paper I describe global merchandise trade flows through the lens of intra-industry trade (IIT) indices, which quantify the extent to which bilateral imports and...

This paper investigates the determinants of intraindustry trade IIT , horizontal IIT HIIT , and Vertical IIT VIIT in the automobile industry in Portugal. The trade in this sector between Portugal and the European Union EU-27 was examined, between 1995 and 2008, using a dynamic panel data. We apply the GMM system to solve the problems of serial correlation and the endogeneity of some explanatory...

Critical illness hyperglycemia (CIH) is common in pediatric and adult intensive care units (ICUs). Children undergoing surgical repair or palliation of congenital cardiac defects are particularly at risk for CIH and its occurrence has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality in this population. Strict glycemic control through the use of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) has been sho...

A system of machine translation under the framework of transfer-based grammar for Indian languages needs a set of rules for mapping the several syntactic as well as semantic facts of a source language on to the target language representations. Among these critical syntactico-semantic facts, this paper tries to approximate linguistic conditions for mapping rules for Hindi postposition transfer t...

The present study is meant to fill in some information gaps occurring in the most widespread and well-known educational and reference literature about programming. The stress is laid on a very useful instrument the bitwise operations, topic which is, unfortunately, seldom dealt with in most of the well-known books on programming. In addition, the research is very useful as regards the topic of ...

Most of the existing literature focuses on how international industrial transfer (IIT) impacts global value chain (GVC) status manufacturing industry from perspective narrowly defined FDI but ignores objective fact that and IIT are not equivalent. Based theory analysis, we used TiVA database, input–output model, chain-related methods to effectively measure scale generalized GVCs sectors in Chin...

We are pleased to present a collection of papers on various topics within the area of Informatics and Information Technologies (IIT). The whole collection has been authored by students. We approached selected authors of papers originally presented at the annual IIT Student Research Conference, IIT.SRC 2011 which was organized by the Slovak University of Technology and attended by its students s...

For the TREC-2005 Genomics Track ad-hoc retrieval task, we report on the development of a scalable information retrieval engine based on a relational data model for the integration of structured data and text. Our objectives are to meet the need for the integrated search of heterogeneous data sets of biomedical literature and structured data found in biological databases, and to demonstrate the...