OBJECTIVE To assess the safety and efficacy of a recruitment maneuver, the Open Lung Tool, in pediatric patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. DESIGN Prospective cohort study using a repeated-measures design. SETTING Pediatric intensive care unit at an urban tertiary children's hospital. PATIENTS Twenty-one ventilated pediatric patients with acute lung in...

It is largely consented that the bicycle a sustainable mobility alternative in city. Despite its many benefits, cycling comprises risks of injury or death. Among others, these are result unsafe overtaking manoeuvres performed by motorized vehicles against cyclists. This study aims to identify characteristics road network and traffic influencing lateral distance duration overtaking. Using bicycl...

UNLABELLED Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a frequent cause of dizziness and despite of the excellent results with its treatment, there is some controversy about management. AIM To assess the efficacy of Epley Maneuver with and without post-maneuver restrictions. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized. MATERIAL AND METHOD Fifty patients presenting BPPV of the posterior semicir...

Conventional magnetic attitude control methodologies require several orbital periods to accomplish the required attitude maneuvers due to the existence of an uncontrollable axis, namely the local Earth’s magnetic field vector. Since in some attitude maneuver missions the elapsed time is of critical importance, those time-consuming controllers are not satisfactory and we need a much faster contr...

in order to determine the effect of valsalva maneuver and head rotation on the internal jugular vein (ijv) diameter and cross-sectional area and overlap with the carotid artery (ca) and find the best technique for safe cannulation of the ijv and decrease the risk of ca puncture, the diameter of both the ijv and the ca and percentage of overlap between the two vessels and cross-sectional area of...

We consider the problem of resolving all pairwise interactions of shock waves, contact waves, and rarefaction waves in 1-dimensional flow of an ideal polytropic gas. Resolving an interaction means here to determine the types of the three outgoing (backward, contact, and forward) waves in the Riemann problem defined by the extreme left and right states of the two incoming waves, together with po...

We propose a way to introduce in microscopic pedestrian models a "social norm" in collision avoiding and overtaking, i.e. the tendency, shared by pedestrians belonging to the same culture, to avoid collisions and perform overtaking in a preferred direction. The "social norm" is implemented, regardless of the specific collision avoiding model, as a rotation in the perceived velocity vector of th...