The crossed molecular beams reaction of ground state cyano radicals (CN) with diacetylene (HCCCCH) was studied in the laboratory under single collision conditions. Combining the derived center-of-mass translational energy and angular distributions with novel electronic structure calculations, we show that the linear cyanodiacetylene molecule (HCCCCCN) is the sole reaction product. Our study pro...

an efficient method was employed for the ash and pyrite sulphur removal from bitumen using column flotation process. the bitumen samples containing 9.6% sulphur (6.81% in the pyrite sulphur form) and 26.4% ash were successfully showed up to 75.20% of pyrite sulphur (e.g.; 51.66% of total sulphur) and 70.81% of ash removal. the box-behnken design (bbd) was employed to design the experiments, to ...

This work presents first quantitative results of a method for automatic liver segmentation from CT data. It is based on a 3D deformable model approach using a-priori statistical information about the shape of the liver gained from a training set. The model is adapted to the data in an iterative process by analysis of the grey value profiles along its surface normals after nonlinear diffusion fi...

BACKGROUND: In a prospective cohort study, the authors followed 112 women whose Poly

Two experiments were conducted on postpartum suckled beef cows synchronized with Syncro-Mate B and artificially inseminated approximately 48 h after implant removal. In Exp. 1, cows (> or = 42 d postpartum at the timed AI) were randomly assigned to treated (n = 101) and control (n = 85) groups on d 12 after the timed AI. Treated cows received norgestomet/silicone implants that were left in situ...

OBJECTIVE The national guideline on oesophageal carcinoma's recommendation of a minimum number of 10 resections per year and the intervention of the Dutch Health Care Inspectorate have highlighted hospitals' 'need to score' on the public quality indicator for the annual number of oesophageal resections. To determine whether low-volume hospitals are inclined to adjust their numbers, we studied t...

Insufficient cough strength has a major role in extubation and decannulation outcomes. Cough capacity can be easily evaluated by measuring flows during coughing. Values vary depending on whether cough flows are measured through the mouth or through a tracheostomy or endotracheal tube. It is important to standardize these measurements and start using them routinely in the extubation and decannul...

© 2016 International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science | Published by Wolters Kluwer ‐ Medknow In 1909 Jackson presented his tracheotomy technique to the Eastern Section of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society.[1] His technique would become the foundation of the tracheostomy, a procedure that would ultimately become widely utilized during the polio epide...

PURPOSE To evaluate the surgical treatment concepts for the complications related to the implantation of mesh material for urogynecological indications. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of the current literature on PubMed was performed. RESULTS Only retrospective studies were detected. The rate of mesh-related complications is about 15-25% and mesh erosion is up to 10% for POP and SUI repair....