OBJECTIVE Malnutrition is associated with complications and prolonged hospital stay in critically ill patients. We assessed whether the measurement of the thickness of the adductor pollicis muscle (TAPM), a new tool to assess malnutrition is a valuable prognostic indicator in critically ill patients. METHODS Open cohort study including 248 patients admitted for either medical or surgical inte...

No nutrition assessment tools specifically tailored for intensive care unit (ICU) patients have been developed and validated in Singapore. Studies conducted in Brazilian populations suggest that the thickness of the adductor pollicis muscle (TAPM) may be used to assess nutritional status and predict mortality of critically ill patients. The aim of this study was to determine if TAPM can be used...

Extracellular glycosaminoglycans when precipitated by tannic acid, appear in electron micrographs as amorphous reticulate masses or fragments sometimes finely beaded and often associated with collagen fibrils. An algorithm for automatic classification, segmentation, and quantification of the amount of tannic acid-precipitable material (TAPM) and collagen in electron microscopic images is presen...

Air pollution predictions for environmental impact assessments are usually generated by Gaussian plume/puff models driven by observationally-based meteorological inputs. An alternative approach is to use prognostic meteorological and air pollution models, which are better founded than the Gaussian approach, but tend to require much expertise and time to set up and large computing resources to r...

This paper evaluates the concentration estimates from a comprehensive model, The Air Pollution Model (TAPM), developed by Australia’s CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) with observations from a field study conducted in 2005 at Wilmington, a coastal urban area located south of Los Angeles. The performance of TAPM in describing the results from the field study wa...

Objectives To assess tooth crown's color after intracanal treatment with triple antibiotic paste (TAP) or calcium hydroxide (CH); cervical sealing with glass ionomer cement (GIC) or mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA); and bleaching with carbamide peroxide. Material and Methods After pulp removal and color spectrophotometer measurement, 50 bovine incisors were divided into 4 experimental groups ...

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks present a serious problem for Internet communications. IP source address spoofing is used by DoS and DDoS attacks on targeted victim. IP spoofing to forge the source IP address of the packet, and thereby hide the identity of source. This makes hard to detect and defend against such attack. This paper presents a token based authentication and Packet Marking mechan...

Air pollution models that can be used to predict pollution concentrations for periods of up to a year are generally semi-empirical/analytic approaches based on Gaussian plumes or puffs. These models typically use either a simple surface-based meteorological file or a diagnostic wind-field model based on available observations. The Air Pollution Model (TAPM) (Hurley 1999), newly developed in CSI...

Dispersion of releases in urban areas can be estimated with information on micrometeorological variables in the urban boundary layer. However, this information is not generally available. On the other hand, meteorological measurements are routinely made in rural surroundings (e.g. airports). We examine empirical relationships between urban and rural meteorological variables using data from the ...

So far we have seen two of the main inputs of an application performance model: its Performance-DNA and the usage volume. In my appreciation of modeling it is of crucial importance to be able to analyze the performance of both the application as whole and each of its transaction types individually. This is called Transaction Aware Performance Modeling or TAPM. So Performance-DNA preferably shou...