Present-on-admission modifiers for International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnosis codes are rapidly becoming a standard coding requirement. Inaccurate coding of these modifiers can distort analyses of risk-adjusted outcomes and determinations of hospital reimbursement. A set of 12 screens for the plausibility of present-on-admission designat...

The new generation of multimedia applications demands new features and new mechanisms for proper performance. ATM technology has moved from concept to reality, delivering very high bandwidths and new capabilities to the data link layer user. In an effort to anticipate the high bandwidth-delay data link layer, Delta-t [Delta-t], NETBLT [RFC 988], and VMTP [RFC 1045] were developed. The excellent...

OBJECTIVES Implementation of the International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (ICD-10) coding system presents challenges for using administrative data. Recognizing this, we conducted a multistep process to develop ICD-10 coding algorithms to define Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidities in administrative data and assess the performance of the res...

The absolute density of SD radicals in a supersonic jet has been measured down to (1.1 ± 0.1) × 10(5) cm(-3) in a modestly specified apparatus that uses a cross-correlated combination of cavity ring-down and laser-induced fluorescence detection. Such a density corresponds to 215 ± 21 molecules in the probe volume at any given time. The minimum detectable absorption coefficient was quantum-noise...

Atopic diseases of babies and children are frequent, disabilitating, chronic and even life-threatening. The currently available cow's milk (CM) substitutes for infants with CM allergy (CMA) are soy protein (SP) formulas (SPFs), hydrolyzed formulas (HF), and homemade meat-based formulas. However, in the past few years the antigenicity/allergenicity of SPFs has been over-emphasized in the medical...

Sub-Doppler excitation spectroscopy in a collimated cold supersonic beam of 5% NO seeded in argon has been performed with a spectral resolution down to 10 MHz for four vibronic bands within the perturbed B ?X A system of NO . The rotational temperature of about 15 K achieved by adiabatic cooling allows the separation of closely lying vibronic bands which overlap in absorption spectra ...

Definition A vector whose elements are stacked vertically is known as a column vector, or simply a vector. Its transpose is called a row vector. λ 1 x 1 + · · · + λ k x k = 0 In other words, they are linearly dependent if at least one of them can be written as a linear combination of the others. Definition A set of vectors are called linearly independent if they are not linearly dependent. are ...

Two pairs of discrete salivary glands are located at the base of the muscular proboscis of the sanguivorous Glossiphoniid leeches Haementeria ghilianii and Haementeria officinalis. Each anterior gland is 0.8 cm to 2 cm in length, and comprises over 200 giant salivary cell bodies ranging from 150 microns to over 1000 microns in diameter, depending on the size of the animal. The salivary cells ar...

A single crystal of anilinium tetrathiafulvalene-2-carboxylate exhibits a characteristic electrical conduction; it is a semiconductor with activation-type transport above 200 K; σ(rt) = 0.16 S cm(-1) with an activation energy of 0.11 eV. On the other hand, below 200 K, it does not obey the Arrhenius relation but is conductive even at 4 K with 2.1 × 10(-4) S cm(-1) at a frequency of 2 MHz. Its b...

We present the hetero-epitaxy of III-V materials on 200 mm Silicon wafers by MOCVD. A Ge layer is first grown on the silicon wafer by a two-step process, allowing a lattice matched GaAs layer to be grown on top. Anti-phase boundaries formation are avoided by using a high growth temperature and an arsine partial pressure above 5 mbar during the nucleation of the GaAs layer. The resulting GaAs vi...