A Fresh Look

A fresh look at preoperative body washing

National guidelines do not support preoperative body washing to reduce surgical site infections, instead recommending bathing or showering with soap. Yet preoperative body washing continues to be widely used in many hospitals across Europe. This paper suggests that existing trials of preoperative body washing, upon which guidelines are based, are dated and proposes a new investigation of preope...

Hyperglycemia-induced hyponatremia: a fresh look.

that require Zn2t Zincon and the standard ZnSO4 solution were from J.T. Baker; Tris (THAM) and sodium tetraborate were Fisher Certified. The 2-amino-2methyl-1-propanol was from Sigma (pfs, lot No. 14C-3610) as were the Good’s buffers 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid (MES) and 2-[2-hydroxy-1,1bis(hydroxymethyl)ethyl]aminoethanesulfonic acid (TES). The other Good’s buffers, N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)...

A fresh look into pulsating PG1159 stars

To improve the understanding of the pulsational instabilities of some of the PG1159-type pre-white dwarfs we performed detailed stability analyses on helium star evolutionary models. With the canonical chemical compositions, pulsational instabilities were encountered for all stellar masses considered (0.57, 0.63, 0.7 M⊙). The blue boundary agrees satisfactorily with observations. The red edge, ...

Fish Oil and Inflammation - A Fresh Look.

A Fresh Look at Vocabulary Spurts

There is currently rather little agreement about the existence of, and explanation for, a vocabulary spurt in children during the second year. Here we apply a Functional Data Analysisbased technique called Automatic Maxima Detection to the problem of finding vocabulary spurts in a sample of 20 children. Even with considerable smoothing of the data, children were found to exhibit multiple vocabu...