Engine oils are widely used for lubrication purposes in automobile and related industries. Viscosity Index (VI) improver has found its largest commercial applications as additives to engine oils. Examples are power steering fluid, aircraft piston engine oils, modern internal-combustion engines, turbine engine oils (stationary and aircraft), and industrial gear oils. Viscosity Index improvers ar...

The present study examined training effects in dyslexic children on reading fluency and the amplitude of N170, a negative brain-potential component elicited by letter and symbol strings. A group of 18 children with dyslexia in 3rd grade (9.05±0.46years old) was tested before and after following a letter-speech sound mapping training. A group of 20 third-grade typical readers (8.78±0.35years old...

INTRODUCTION Early alterations in tissue oxygenation may worsen patient outcome following traumatic haemorrhagic shock. We hypothesized that muscle oxygenation measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) on admission could be associated with subsequent change in the SOFA score after resuscitation. METHODS The study was conducted in two Level I trauma centres and included 54 consecutive t...

This research aimed to investigate effects of dough improvers (trehalose; TR, sucrose ester; SE and hydroxylpropylmethylcellulose; HPMC) on microstructural, textural, rheological and baking properties of frozen dough with virgin coconut oil using central composite design (CCD). Frozen dough containing dough improvers had higher values of all properties compared to frozen dough without dough imp...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The role of liver progenitor cell (LPC) expansion, known as a marker of disease severity, as well as the impact of macrophage activation on liver regeneration remains unclear in humans. We aimed to characterize the LPC and macrophage compartments in alcoholic hepatitis (AH), as well as gene expression patterns to identify predictors of a good prognosis in this setting. METHO...

To cite: Marshall M, de Silva D, Cruickshank L, et al. BMJ Qual Saf Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2016006143 INTERVENING TO CHANGE HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE FOR THE BETTER It is temptingly easy to treat improvement interventions as if they are drugs—technical, stable and uninfluenced by the environment in which they work. Doing so makes life so much e...

Methods Consecutive patients hospitalised to the 12-bed Toxicology and Sepsis Clinic of Riga East Clinical University Hospital with a diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock were enrolled within 24 hours of admission. Baseline carotid to femoral and carotid to radial PWV were determined at enrollment and after 48 hours of initial measurement. Patients showing an improved SOFA score at 48 hou...

Research into the capability of recursive self-improvement typically only considers pairs of 〈agent, self-modification candidate〉, and asks whether the agent can determine/prove if the self-modification is beneficial and safe. But this leaves out the much more important question of how to come up with a potential self-modification in the first place, as well as how to build an AI system capable...

We consider the problem of how best to combine optimizations in imperative compilers. It is known that combined optimizations (or “super-analyses”) can be strictly better than iterating separate improvement passes. We propose an explanation of why this is so by drawing connections between program analysis and the algebraic and coalgebraic views of programs and processes. We argue that “optimist...

BACKGROUND Cognitive functional therapy (CFT) has been shown to reduce pain and disability in people with chronic low back pain. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate participants' experience of CFT by comparing participants who reported differing levels of improvement after participation in CFT, potentially yielding insight into the implementation of this approach. DESIGN...