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... Opioids have been an integral part of caring for critically ill patients since the early days of intensive care. Th e analgesic and sedative characteristics of morphine have been recognized since the 19th ... See full document

... the past, we have embarked upon a model-driven approach and the necessary tooling infrastructure for development of database-centric business ...At present with increased globalization and variable business ... See full document

... the past two decades, this technique has successfully broken through the barrier of laboratory scale production and become an industrial scale production ...its future trend, and discusses the possible ... See full document

... Different lines of indirect evidence suggest that complement activation at the NMJ might be the primary cause of AChR loss and failure of neuromuscular transmission Figure 2A: a compleme[r] ... See full document

... improving survival and many patients still died of shock and infection. It was not until the past 50 years that the mortal- ity of burns has been dramatically improved, thanks to the better understanding of the ... See full document

... the past decades a wide range of methods have been deployed to tease out how the public (whatever that might be) feels about everything from gene patents to genetic privacy to the utility of direct-to-consumer ... See full document

... There are a number of reviews that have been compiled describing fluorescent chemosensors, however, to the best of our knowledge, most of these reviews focus on either diverse fluorochromes or analytes. Only a few ... See full document

... Optimal design of electromechanical devices often necessitates repetitive usage of finite-element (FE) solvers, or other numerically intensive field computation. A direct way of incorporating field modelling into ... See full document

... A number of different approaches have been used to introduce siRNAs into both cells and whole organisms. Successful approaches include: electroporation (McRobert and McConkey, 2002), soaking in siRNAs (Malhotra et al., ... See full document

... “the present” actually describes the 1960s to the present day – a period marked by much greater public interest in the entire food additives ...the past to enhance the brown colour of smoked fish ... See full document

... to present a single antigen – often a single pathogen protein – to the immune system, this avoids many of the issues associated with live attenuated vaccines, but most subunit vaccines suffer from poor efficacy, ... See full document

... 7.5. Flavonoids. In some cases, whole classes of molecules are known for having multiple neuroprotective effects. One such group of compounds that are currently the subject of intensive research are the ... See full document

... Moreover, in a randomized study comparing dopamine and epinephrine in the treatment of shock, a subgroup analysis of 280 patients with cardiogenic shock showed dopamine to be associated [r] ... See full document

... The key to bringing structured content to life is to run services over it. What these might look like can begin to be seen in a variety of Semantic Web applications (and we will also encounter them in the case studies in ... See full document

... China has witnessed profound socioeconomic changes over the past four decades. This dissertation is comprised of three papers that investigate the demographic, social, and economic determinants of fertility trends ... See full document

... pediatric care in an attempt to bring children to the “right place at the right time”; however, these plans do not necessarily affect triage practices of parents for their ...tertiary care facility, because ... See full document

... In his Foundation series, published in the 1950’s, Isaac Asimov imagined Civilization capable of colonizing the entire Universe. This feat is unlikely to occur. Strikingly, Asimov referred to a 70-old man as an old ... See full document

... Diagnostic accessibility—malaria. The majority of malaria cases occur in areas with limited health care resources and infrastructure. Thus, a malaria diagnostic’s ability to impact public health heavily depends on ... See full document

... There are many barriers that need to be overcome to increase the detection and treatment of mental health problems in KSA primary care settings. First, the presentation of psychiatric symptoms here is often ... See full document

... Today, new national networks are beginning to change this ratio. The GTRN or Global Terabit Research Network initiative shown in Figures 1.10 and 1.11 link national net- works in Asia, the Americas and Europe with a ... See full document