The purpose of this study was to determine in a randomized, prospective manner whether administration of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) via multilumen catheters increases the risk of catheter-related sepsis (CRS). All patients receiving hyperalimentation during a 24-month period were randomized to receive either a double-lumen catheter (DLC) or a triple-lumen catheter (TLC). A total of 101 ca...

Abstract Due to the conflict between equilibrium and constitutive requirements, Eringen’s strain-driven nonlocal integral model is not applicable nanostructures of engineering interest. As an alternative, stress-driven has been recently developed. In this paper, for higher-order shear deformation beams, ill-posed issue (i.e., excessive mandatory boundary conditions (BCs) cannot be met simultane...

Previous studies have provided conflicting conclusions concerning the efficacy of improving protein balance in patients by standard intravenous nutrition [TPN (total parenteral nutrition)], which is either explained by suboptimal nutritional regimens or insensitive clinical methods. The aim of the present study was therefore to evaluate the effects on the initiation of translation of skeletal m...

PURPOSE Tpn is a member of the MHC class I loading complex and functions to bridge the TAP peptide transporter to MHC class I molecules. Metastatic human carcinomas often express low levels of the antigen-processing components Tapasin and TAP and display few functional surface MHC class I molecules. As a result, carcinomas are unrecognizable by effector CTLs. The aim of this study is to examine...

OBJECTIVES To study the interrelationship between serum Interleukin-6 (IL-6), serum Interleukin-6 soluble Receptor (IL-6 sR), C-Reactive Protein (C-RP), plasmatic Zinc levels (PlZn) and their response in relation to Zn administered by TPN, in critical patients. METHODS 17 patients, receiving TPN as a consequence of acute pancreatitis (n = 4) or after a major abdominal surgery due to intestina...

BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated reliably with ruminative responding; this kind of responding is composed of both maladaptive and adaptive components. Levels of activity in the default-mode network (DMN) relative to the task-positive network (TPN), as well as activity in structures that influence DMN and TPN functioning, may represent important neural substrates of...

The prevalence of short bowel syndrome appears to be increasing because of more aggressive surgical and medical approaches to the management of neonatal intraabdominal catastrophies. Hence, a large cohort of neonates with intestinal failure occupies neonatal intensive care units, requiring chronic total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in hopes that the residual bowel will adapt, thereby permitting w...

Abstract: IRIS (increasing reward with increasing service) realtime scheduling appears frequently in real-time control applications such as heuristic control. IRIS requires not only meeting deadlines, but also finding the schedule with the best result (highest reward). In this paper, a framework is presented that uses Timed Petri nets (TPN) to transform an IRIS problem into a dynamic programmin...

This paper introduces TPN, the runner up method in both tasks of the ECML-PKDD Discovery Challenge 2006 on personalized spam filtering. TPN is a classifier training method that bootstraps positive-only learning with fully-supervised learning, in order to make the most of labeled and unlabeled data, under the assumption that the two are drawn from significantly different distributions. Furthermo...

The isolation and purification of a soluble transhydrogenase from Chromatium is described. The enzyme promotes the oxidation of reduced triphosphopyridine nucleotide by diphosphopyridine nucleotide. However, it will also use several analogues of DPN and TPN which include deamino-DPN, deamino-TPN, thionicotinamide DPN, and deamino-DPNH. Nicotinamide mononucleotide was also reduced. The enzyme do...