A criticism often levelled at functional languages is that they do not cope elegantly or eeciently with problems involving changes of state. In a recent paper 26], Wadler has proposed a new approach to these problems. His proposal involves the use of a type system based on the linear logic of Girard 7]. This allows the programmer to specify the \natural" imperative operations without at the sam...

background: drug resistance is widely believed to be an increasingly serious threat to global public health. we have previously reported that short term exposure of microorganisms to diagnostic ultrasound waves could significantly alter their sensitivity to antibiotics. in our previous studies, klebsiella pneumoniae showed major differences in the sensitivity to antibiotics in exposed and non-e...

Background and Aims: As a method for the diagnosis and management of sepsis, the serum procalcitonin assay is routinely used, especially in the emergency department (ED) and intensive care units (ICU). Procalcitonin has reasonable diagnostic accuracy for bacteremia in hospitalized patients of all age groups with suspected infection or sepsis. This study aimed to compare the Getein Biotech proca...

INTRODUCTION acute respiratory failure is manifested clinically as patient with variable degrees of respiratory distress, but characteristically an abnormal arterial blood partial pressure of oxygen or carbon dioxide. The application of mechanical ventilation in this setting can be life saving. GOALS The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of two recruitment maneuvers not only on oxy...