BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of organ failure in trauma patients treated in an intensive care unit (ICU), and to study the relationship between organ failure and long-term survival and functional status. METHODS This is a cohort study of all adult ICU trauma patients admitted to a university hospital during 1998 to 2003. Organ failure was quantified by the Sequ...

The potential for discriminating between analytes by their unique vibrational signature makes surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) extremely interesting for chemical detection. However, for molecules that weakly adsorb to non-functionalized plasmonic materials, detection by SERS remains a key challenge. Here we present an approach to SERS-based detection where a polycrystalline metal-organi...

Separation of carbon dioxide and methane is an important issue in upgrading low-quality natural gas. Adsorption equilibria and kinetics of CO(2) and CH(4) on a copper metal-organic framework (MOF), Cu(hfipbb)(H(2)hfipbb)(0.5) [H(2)hfipbb=4,4'-(hexafluoroisopropylidene) bis(benzoic acid)], were investigated to evaluate the feasibility of removing CO(2) from CH(4) in a pressure swing adsorption p...

Objectives: This report explores the possibility of synthesizing enzyme–metal–organic framework (MOF) composites by ink-jet printing. Results: This study demonstrates that the direct synthesis of patterned enzyme–metal–organic framework (MOF) composites on various substrates including paper and polymeric films can be readily achieved by ink-jet printing bio-inks containing protein molecules, me...

Molecular simulations and NMR relaxometry experiments demonstrate that pure benzene or xylene confined in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks (IRMOFs) exhibit true vapor-liquid phase equilibria where the effective critical point may be reduced by tuning the structure of the MOF. Our results are consistent with vapor and liquid phases extending over many MOF unit cells. These results are count...

Exceptionally high surface area and ordered nanopores of a metal-organic framework (MOF) are exploited to encapsulate and homogeneously disperse a considerable amount of phosphotungstic acid (PTA). When combined with platinum nanoparticles positioned on the external surface of the MOF, the construct shows a high catalytic activity for hydroisomerization of n-hexane, a reaction requiring hydroge...

The computation of P over elliptic curves is the dominant operation. It depends on the representation of the scalar . The binary method is the standard unsigned method that is used to compute the elliptic curve point . Researchers found that it is not the most efficient way for implementing elliptic curve computations. Other recoding methods such as CR, NAF, and MOF were presented in order to e...

Electronic structure, bonding characteristics, adhesion, and stress energy of the Zn-MOF-5(100)/(110) rutile interface were modeled by using periodic DFT+D calculations, corroborated by simulation of high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) images. Adjustment of the flexible metal−organic framework (MOF) moiety to the rigid rutile substrate was achieved within a supercell compr...

MOF and OCL are commonly used for metamodeling: MOF to model the domain structure, and OCL for the well-formedness rules. Thus, metamodelers have to master both formalisms and understand how to articulate them in order to build metamodels that accurately capture domain knowledge. A systematic empirical analysis of the conjunct use of MOF and OCL in existing metamodels could help metamodelers un...

The Moment-of-Fluid (MOF) method is a new volume-tracking method that accurately treats evolving material interfaces. The MOF method uses moment data, namely the material volume fraction, as well as the centroid, for a more accurate representation of the material configuration, interfaces and concomitant volume advection. In contrast, the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method uses only volume fraction d...