RAPID and accurate diagnosis of the misplacement of an endotracheal tube in the esophagus remains one of the most important problems in anesthesia and intensive care. Clinical signs observed through auscultation, inspection of thoracic excursions, refilling of the breathing bag, or water vapor condensing at the endotracheal tube may be misleading in as many as 30% of patients. ' Although end-ti...

In the quest for greater performance, superscalar processor designers implement large issue queues and register files to take advantage of the out-of-order execution of the architecture. However, there is a trade-off to be made as performance gains are achieved at the cost of increased energy consumption. There comes a point where increasing the size of these structures is too costly in terms o...

Anesthetics provide sedation and immobility facilitating echocardiography in mice, but influence cardiac function. We studied the effects of intraperitoneal and inhaled anesthetic agents on echocardiographic measurements. Mice were anesthetized with intraperitoneal tribromoethanol (TBE), ketamine-midazolam (K/M), ketamine-xylazine (K/X), or inhaled isoflurane (Isf), and echocardiographic parame...

The efficiency of conversion of precursor ions to observable products for electron detachment dissociation (EDD) was measured as a function of the key experimental parameters to determine their optimal values for the Fourier transform mass spectrometry analysis of anionic glycosaminoglycan carbohydrates. These parameters include electron current, electron energy, dispenser cathode heater curren...

Improving our understanding of the nuclear properties high-Eddington ratio ($\lambda_\mathrm{Edd}$) active galactic nuclei (AGN) is necessary since bulk X-ray spectroscopic studies have been focused on low-Eddington AGN. We present here spectral analysis 14 radio-quiet, $\lambda_\mathrm{Edd}\gtrsim1$ AGN at $0.4\leq z \leq 0.75$, observed with XMM-Newton. Optical/UV data from simultaneous Optic...

Accreting Black Holes (BHs) are believed to be sites of possible particle acceleration with favorable conditions also for effective gamma-ray production. However, because of photon-photon pair production, only low energy (MeV) gamma-rays can escape these compact objects with typically very large compactness parameter, κ = L L Edd Rg R ≥ 0.01, given that in most cases the accretion disks within ...

3C 216 has a weak accretion flow luminosity, well below the Seyfert1/QSO dividing line, weak broad emission lines (BELs) and powerful radio lobes. As a consequence of the extreme properties of 3C 216, it is the most convincing example known of an FR II radio source that is kinetically dominated: the jet kinetic luminosity, Q, is larger than the total thermal luminosity (IR to X-ray) of the accr...

The aim of this study was to investigate the endothelial dysfunction (ED) and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in patients with glycogen storage disease (GSD) types Ia and III. In 22 patients with GSD (13, type Ia; 9, type III) and 18 healthy subjects, endothelial functions of the brachial artery and carotid IMT were evaluated by high-resolution ultrasound. Endothelial-dependent dilatation ...

Sensor networks are composed of a number of sensor nodes with limited resources and used in application such as environment monitoring and object tracking. This allows a situation where the adversary can compromise one sensor node, fabricate many replicas having the same identity (ID) from the captured node, and place these replicas back into strategic positions in the network for further malic...