INTRODUCTION Delirium is an acute disturbance of consciousness and cognition. It is a common disorder in the intensive care unit (ICU) and associated with impaired long-term outcome. Despite its frequency and impact, delirium is poorly recognized by ICU-physicians and -nurses using delirium screening tools. A completely new approach to detect delirium is to use monitoring of physiological alter...

The fixing property of a specific precipitate and of syphilitic serum in the presence of certain antigenic lipoids, can be removed by adding certain non-complementary proteins of blood serum or hen's egg. This disappearance of the complementary activity in the syphilis reaction, as well as in the true Bordet-Gengou reaction, is a phenomenon which incidentally accompanies the fixation of certain...

the recovery and removal of the most organic acids in liquid solutions is usually treated with fixed-bed adsorption processes. among many adsorbents, granular activated carbon (gac) is used to remove organic pollutants such as benzoic acid (ba) from wastewaters conventionally. in this research, adsorption isotherm curves of ba onto gac at varying temperatures 25-60 °c are developed and the amou...

Calculation of excess quantities of ethylene glycol + water binary fluid systems at seven absolute temperatures (293.15 to 353.15) K from experimentally determined values of density and shear viscosity were presented in previous work. The examination of related functions beside the quality of correlation from several equations on these experimental values has also been reported. Considering...

Absolute temperature is usually bound to be positive. Under special conditions, however, negative temperatures-in which high-energy states are more occupied than low-energy states-are also possible. Such states have been demonstrated in localized systems with finite, discrete spectra. Here, we prepared a negative temperature state for motional degrees of freedom. By tailoring the Bose-Hubbard H...

~ 113-The histochemical reaction of choline dehydrogenase was completely inhibited by the pretreatment of cryostat sections with either absolute acetone or lO<yo water-in-acetone at room temperature (25°C). The temperature of the organic solvents was critical in the inhibition of the staining for choline dehydrogenase. As the temperature was lowered, the inhibitory effects of the pretreatment d...

Climatic change and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration are expected to have significant effects on grassland ecosystems, but the magnitude of the responses may vary strongly across complex landscapes. A combination of the mechanistic pasture simulation model PaSim, statistical interpolation of climate parameters, and stochastic weather generation was used to examine the range and spatial ...

Improvement of thermally sprayed coating properties by microstructure modification has been considered as a significant solution. Therefore, in this research the effect of dissolved oxygen content and post heat treatment on the formation and distribution of secondary phase particles, particularly in nano-scale in the coatings during spraying and after that were studied. Ni-5 wt% Al powders were...