INTRODUCTION In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether fasting plasma citrulline concentration predicts subsequent glucose absorption in critically ill patients. METHODS In a prospective observational study involving 15 healthy and 20 critically ill subjects, fasting plasma citrulline concentrations were assayed in blood samples immediately prior to the administration of a liquid test meal ...

Quantum computers, much like their classical counterparts, will likely benefit from flexible qubit encodings that can be matched to different tasks. For trapped ion quantum processors, a common way access multiple is use multiple, co-trapped atomic species. Here, we outline an alternative approach allows encoding capabilities in single-species systems through the of long-lived metastable states...

Many studies have shown that social data such as tweets are a rich source of information about the real-world including, for example, insights into health trends. A key limitation when analyzing Twitter data, however, is that it depends on people self-reporting their own behaviors and observations. In this paper, we present a large-scale quantitative analysis of some of the factors that influen...

The contents of this file are subject to a BSD license (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. openMDX is an advanced implementation of the OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiative (also see [20]). openMDX is an industrial-strength, open, model-driven runtime engine and framework for platform independent models (PIMs). Unlike most commercial tools...

Our last two columns have explored various techniques for using distributed callbacks to decouple clients and servers and create peer-to-peer relationships between the objects in a distributed system. We’ve shown various ways to eliminate the polling required by a stock application client. All these approaches center around direct or indirect callbacks from the Stock Quote Server. Like all engi...

Because of the effective catabolism of D-glucose to short-chain fatty acids by intraruminal microorganisms, the absorption of D-glucose from the rumen was thought to be of minor importance. However, clinical studies suggested that significant quantities of D-glucose are transported from the ruminal contents to the blood. We therefore tested the ruminal epithelium of sheep for the presence of Na...