Abstract Aim Most hospitals mandate afterhours operations to permit only cases that are life or limb-threatening. This is in the interests of promoting patient safety and reducing surgical errors. The incidence caseload night-time has not been well defined Australia. study aims investigate characteristics emergency involving consultant general surgeons between 10pm 7am regional rural hospitals....

The photochemistry of the Dawson-type [Bu(4)N](4)[S(2)Mo(18)O(62)] and [Bu(4)N](4)[S(2)W(18)O(62)] polyoxometalates in molecular solvents and [Bmim][BF(4)] and [Bmim][BF(6)] ionic liquids with water present as the electron donor is reported. Irradiation with UV (275-320 nm) or white (275-750 nm) light leads to reduction of the [S(2)Mo(18)O(62)](4-) anion and concomitant oxidation of water to gi...

The filarial nematode product ES-62 contains phosphorylcholine (PC) covalently attached to N-linked glycans. ES-62 induced high levels of immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) antibodies, but no IgG2a, to non-PC epitopes of the molecule following subcutaneous injection into BALB/c mice. Conversely, mice given ES-62 lacking PC demonstrated significant production of both IgG subclasses. Thus, PC appears to bl...

A Bounded Disorder file [9] [11] is a mechanism for maintaining files in traditional. systems. It guarantees good performance for single-key operations (e.g. search, insert, and delete), similar to that of hash based methods, and in addition, good performance for subrange operations, and reasonable performance for sequential-key operations (Le. subrange operations for which the output must be p...