AIMS To describe English specialist palliative care (SPC) services' provision for, and attitude to, heart failure patients, and to identify developments of particular interest or expertise in this area. METHOD Postal survey of all lead consultants of English SPC services, September 2004. RESULTS Of 397 services, 233 replied (response rate 59%); 222 (95%) thought SPC had a role in severe/end...

Abstract Iron-based superconductors (IBS) have attracted intense interest from scientists around the world. The first FeSe0.5Te0.5 hybrid coil including one single pancake (SPC) and eight YBCO double coils (DPCs) was successfully fabricated test in this study. tape used is encapsulated strengthen which with 0.15 mm thickness 10.5 width to withstand high stress during cold test. exhibits good pe...

Purpose: This article aims to present successful practices in the management of training processes based on virtual reality and augmented reality, namely a strategy for evaluating process with principle continuous improvement mind, monitoring its performance terms productivity waste levels. It is proposed apply Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools develop control charts individual events (i-...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts are increasingly being used in healthcare to aid in process understanding, assess process stability, and identify changes that indicate either improvement or deterioration in quality. They are used in hospital process improvement projects, by accrediting bodies and governmental agencies, and for public health surveillance. We provide an overview of commo...

Time of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) was used to image the lipid localization in brain tissue sections from rats fed specially processed cereals (SPC). An IonTof 5 instrument equipped with a Bi cluster ion gun was used to analyze the tissue sections. Data from 15 brain samples from control and cereal-fed rats were recorded and exported to principal components analysis (PCA)...

Nowadays, modern power converters installed in renewable plants can provide flexible electromechanical characteristics that rely on the developed control technologies such as Synchronous Power Controller (SPC). Since high penetrated grids result a low-inertia system, this characteristic provides support to dynamic stability of active and frequency generation area. This goal be achieved through ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Myocardial infarction leads to heart failure. Autophagy is excessively activated in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) in rats. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the protection of sevoflurane postconditioning (SPC) in myocardial I/R is through restored impaired autophagic flux. METHODS Except for the sham control (SHAM) group, each rat underwent 30 min ...

In acute myeloid leukemia (AML) quiescence and low oxidative state, linked to BCL2 mitochondrial regulation, endow leukemic stem cells (LSC) with treatment-resistance. LSC in CD34+ and more mature CD34- AML have heterogeneous immunophenotypes overlapping with normal stem/progenitor cells (SPC) but may be differentiated by functional markers. We therefore investigated the oxidative/reactive oxyg...

The effect of repetitive electrical field stimulation and the response of the guinea-pig and rat ileal longitudinal muscle to single pulse stimulations was examined. Single pulse field stimulation produced twitch contraction which was inhibited by repetitive field stimulation (10 Hz, 40V, 0.5 msec for 5 m). This inhibition was largely, though never completely, reversed by naloxone. Contrac...