BACKGROUND Minimizing total respiratory heat loss is an important goal during mechanical ventilation. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether changes in tracheal temperature (a clinical parameter that is easy to measure) are reliable indices of total respiratory heat loss in mechanically ventilated patients. METHOD Total respiratory heat loss was measured, with three different me...

Experiments were performed to ascertain the single!phase heat transfer enhancement provided by streamwise curva! ture[ Curved and straight rectangular ~ow channels were fabricated with identical 4[9×1[4 mm cross!sections and 090[5 mm heated lengths in which heat was applied to a 21[2 mm radius concave wall in the curved channel and a side wall in the straight[ Reynolds number ranged from 8999 t...

Background. Palm oil is commonly consumed in Asia. Repeatedly heating the oil is very common during food processing. Aim. This study is aimed to report on the risk of atherosclerosis due to the reheated oil consumption. Material and Methods. Twenty four male Sprague Dawley rats were divided into control, fresh-oil, 5 times heated-oil and 10 times heated-oil feeding groups. Heated palm oil was p...

The null object has been useful and troublesome ever since it was introduced. The problems have been mitigated by references in C++, annotations in Java or safe navigation in Groovy, Python and Xbase. Introduction of a safe navigation operator to OCL has some rather unpleasant consequences. We examine these consequences and identify further OCL refinements that are needed to make safe navigatio...

It is 14 years since the first UMLX paper and 10 years since the QVT 1.0 specification was published. No useable UMLX implementation has appeared. QVTr implementations have been disappointing. The Eclipse QVTd project can now offer editing, optimization, execution and Java code generation for QVTc, QVTr and UMLX. This paper outlines the Micromapping Model of Computation used by the optimizations.

This study explores the effect of psychopathic leadership on employee behavioural silence and how leads to work-family conflict thus, effecting organizational citizenship behaviour. Considering insights offered by plasticity theory, we have investigated whether organization based self-esteem moderates silence. Data is collected using a structured questionnaire at three different time lags with ...

Persistent thermohaline pollution at a site along the northern coast of Israel, due to power and desalination plants, is used as a natural laboratory to evaluate the effects of rising temperature and salinity levels on benthic foraminifera living in shallow hard-bottom habitats. Biomonitoring of the disturbed area and a control station shows that elevated temperature is a more significant stres...

Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), specifically dynamic susceptibility MRI (DSC-MRI) is routinely performed as a supplement to conventional MRI in human medicine for patients with intracranial neoplasia and cerebrovascular events. There is minimal data on the use of DSC-MRI in veterinary patients and a DSC-MRI protocol in the veterinary patient has not been described. Sixteen normal do...