BACKGROUND Application of abdominal negative-pressure therapy (NPT) is lifesaving when conservative measures fail to reduce sustained increase of the intra-abdominal pressure and it is impossible to achieve source control in a single operation due to severe peritonitis. The aim of this study is to share the initial experience with abdominal NPT in Latvia and provide a review of the relevant lit...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim was to identify publications relating to near patient testing (NPT), the use of alternative delivery systems between laboratory and general practice, including electronic data interchange (EDI), and computerised diagnostic decision support (CDDS), in the primary care setting to answer the following questions. What is the availability of NPT for primary care? What evi...

Abstract On 16th July 1945, at 05:29 AM, the secrets of atom were unlocked by detonating world’s first nuclear explosive device dubbed “The Gadget”.

Aims: In both, forensic and clinical settings, highly specific and long-term markers of alcohol consumption are still warranted. Metabolomics in rats following administration of ethanol revealed an increase in urinary excretion of N-acetyltaurine (NAT) with alcohol dose [1]. Methods: NAT has been synthesized using a method similar to that of Johnson et al. [2]. Pyridine and acetic anhydride wer...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August, 1945. The energy yields were equivalent to 12 500 tonnes and 20 000 tonnes of high explosive. Yields from thermonuclear weapons (H-bombs) range up to several megatons (Mt). Between 1945 and the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996, over 2000 nuclear tests were carried out by the USA, USSR, Britain, France and China, plus one by India. Mo...

We consider bipartite mixed states ρ in a d ⊗ d quantum system. We say that ρ is PPT if its partial transpose 1⊗ T(ρ) is positive semidefinite, and otherwise ρ is NPT. The well-known Werner states are divided into three types: (a) the separable states (the same as the PPT states); (b) the one-distillable states (necessarily NPT); and (c) the NPT states which are not one-distillable. We give sev...

The purpose of this review was to evaluate mortality rates of open abdomen patients with severe peritonitis who received negative pressure therapy (NPT) versus open packing techniques as a method of temporary abdominal closure (TAC). Authors retrospectively reviewed consecutive records from five different surgical departments of patients who received NPT (V.A.C. technology) and open packing (OP...

Introduction As one of leading core technology in the 21th century, nano photonic technology (NPT) is highly interdisciplinary, involving physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and the full range of the engineering disciplines (Picraux, 2014). NPT is a study of the interaction of electrons and photons and its components in nano structure based on the great development and popularizatio...

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