To the Editor, We were interested in a recently published case report describing application of the Airtraq optical laryngoscope (Airtraq) for nasotracheal intubation (NTI) in a patient with a predicted difficult airway who was undergoing oral surgery. The authors are to be congratulated on their successful airway management in this challenging case. However, topical anesthesia was performed on...

A kinetic simulation code based on the gyrokinetic ion dynamics in global general metric (including a tokamak with circular or noncircular cross–section) has been developed. This gyrokinetic simulation is capable of examining the global and semi–global driftwave structures and their associated transport in a tokamak plasma. We investigate the property of the ion temperature gradient (ITG) or ηi...

p.100 Last row of equation (3.47) should be log2 det { I + PT σ2 n RR } . p.100 HH∗ = I should be HH∗ = ntI to make the normalization correct. p.100 Row 7 from the end, mnrntmf should be nrntmf . p.131 C in equation (3.96) should be CS . p.150 I in equation (3.141) should be I = C(H). p.150 R0 in equation (3.142) and (3.145) should be CP0 . p.162 Equation (4.3) should be CINR = nrσ 2 d σ2 n ( 1...

Nowadays urban climate is a global problem and many studies focused on understanding the relation between built-up space using radiometric observations of land surface temperature to estimate monitor heat island intensity (SUHIs). In this study MODIS (LST) data were used. The Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA), eastern China, was selected as an example SUHI multiple influencing fac...

Nonthyroidal illness (NTI) is associated with complex changes in thyroid function tests and thyroid regulation known as the euthyroid sick syndrome (ESS) (1). The most common abnormality is a reduction in serum total triiodothyronine (TT3) and, to a lesser extent, free T3 (FT3) concentrations (2). Kinetic studies showed that the daily production rate (PR) of T3 is decreased, while its clearance...

nti-heart antibodies have been deA tected by different immunologic methods in the serum of patients with various heart diseases, especially that of rheumatic origin.1-5 The prevalence of these serum antibodies in patients with nonrheumatic heart disease has been relatively 10w.~-* Thus, the adjunctive use of iznmunologic methods for the clinical detection of heart disease appeared to be of limi...

The e nthalpy of reaction of tri s(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane with 0.1 N He] has been meas ured us ing a n isoperibol so lution calorimete r, e mployi ng a mod ified quartz the rmometer and an a utomatic digital data acq uisition sys tem. The enthalpy value obta ined at 298.15 K is 245.93 ± 0.26 J . gI. Pa rti cul ar atte nti on was give n to possible sources of syste mati c erro r in the elect...