background: cuffed pharyngeal tube is a device designed for ventilation of anesthetized patients. cpt has advantages over face mask including: maintaining of face mask can be difficult and boring after several minutes and mobility of the practitioner is reduced due to involvement of hands. mask pressure can cause soft tissue and nerve damage around the nose. anesthetic gas leakage from the mask...

MS/MS and associated database search algorithms are essential proteomic tools for identifying peptides. Due to their widespread use, it is now time to perform a systematic analysis of the various algorithms currently in use. Using blood specimens used in the HUPO Plasma Proteome Project, we have evaluated five search algorithms with respect to their sensitivity and specificity, and have also ac...

We describe a study aimed at measuring the use of factual information in test-taker essays and assessing its effectiveness for predicting essay scores. We found medium correlations with the proposed measures, that remained significant after the effect of essay length was factored out. The correlations did not differ substantionally between a simple, relatively robust measure vs a more sophistic...

Let H0 be an arbitrary self-adjoint n × n matrix and H(n) be an n × n (random) Wigner matrix. We show that t 7→ Tr exp(H(n)−itH0) is positive definite in the average. This partially answers a long-standing conjecture. On the basis of asymptotic freeness our result implies that t 7→ τ(exp(a − itb)) is positive definite whenever the noncommutative random variables a and b are in free relation, wi...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission ended operations on 30 September 2016 having spent over 2 years in close proximity to its target comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Shortly before this, in summer 2016, a discussion meeting was held to examine how the results of the mission could be framed in terms of cometary and solar system science in general. This paper provides a brief history of ...

In a previous work, we explored zone broadening and the achievable plate numbers in linear drift tube ion mobility-mass spectrometry through developing plate-height model [1]. On basis of these findings, present theoretical study extends by exploring peak-to-peak resolution peak capacity mobility separations. The first part provides critical overview chromatography-influenced equations, includi...