The U.S. Army's fluid replacement guidelines emphasize fluid replacement during hot weather training to prevent degradation of performance and minimize the risk of heat injury. Little consideration has been given, however, to possible overhydration and development of water intoxication. Sufficient epidemiological evidence is available to demonstrate an increasing incidence of water intoxication...

Volume replacement was studied prospectively in 208 infants with dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS). The mean volume of intravenous fluid used was 110.4 mL/kg administered over a mean period of 25.8 hours. The mean volumes of intravenous fluid replacement in infants with DSS was significantly higher than in those with non-shock DHF (129.8 mL/kg versus 102.1 mL/kg; P = 0.00...

BACKGROUND Although associated with severe clinical complications, phosphate remains a neglected ion. Additionally, phosphate balance during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is complex and multifunctional. The present retrospective study investigated the effects of phosphate-containing CRRT fluid on phosphate homeostasis. METHODS We retrospectively analysed 112 patients treated wit...

The strongest point about damage identification based on the dynamic measurements, is ability perform structural health evaluation globally. Researchers in last few years payed more attention to indicators modal analysis using either frequencies, mode shapes, or Frequency Response Functions (FRFs). This paper presents a new application of cross-ply (0°/90°/0°) laminated composite plate Force Re...

In this paper, we present a novel and efficient method for the design of a sharp, two dimensional (2D) wideband, circularly symmetric, FIR filter. First of all, a sharp one dimensional (1D) infinite precision FIR filter is designed using the Frequency Response Masking (FRM) technique. This filter is converted into a multiplier-less filter by representing it in the Canonic Signed Digit (CSD) spa...

most of the earth's crust contains fluids, and fractures are common throughout the upper part. they exist at a wide range of scales from micro-fractures within grains to major faults and shear zones that traverse the crust. in this paper, the stress-dependent permeability in fractured rock masses have been investigated considering the effects of nonlinear normal deformation and shear dilation o...

There are various approaches to computing dry rock bulk modulus as a function of porosity and, from this, inferring velocity and density changes due to reservoir fluid change as a function of porosity. One such approach is the pore space stiffness method. A second approach is the critical porosity model (Mavko and Mukerji, 1995). Using the clean sandstones at different pressures from a dataset ...

finding a representative fluid in a hydrocarbon reservoir is crucial for integrated reservoir management. in this study, a systematic approach for screening and selecting consistent fluid samples in a reservoir was developed. the model integrated quality control (qc) of well conditioning before sampling, qc of pvt data, thermodynamic modeling and compositional gradient within a reservoir. well ...

Y. Xiao,1,* Y. Su,2 H.-F. Li,1,3 C. M. N. Kumar,1 R. Mittal,2,4 J. Persson,1 A. Senyshyn,5,6 K. Gross,1 and Th. Brueckel1,2 1Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Forschungszentrum Juelich, D-52425 Juelich, Germany 2Juelich Centre for Neutron Science, IFF, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Outstation at FRM II, Lichtenbergstraße 1, D-85747 Garching, Germany 3Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and...

Within Flood Risk Management (FRM) decision making, there is a growing interest in participatory approaches to engage and integrate stakeholder expertise. Decision support tools are becoming common features in the FRM ‘toolkit’, yet there is a limited application of participatory methodologies in the construction of such tools. This paper reports on completed FRMRC research (Flood Risk Manageme...