BACKGROUND The aim of study was to test the hypothesis that early enteral nutrition (EN) with calorie-dense and protein rich enteral formula improves enteral energy and protein delivery in critically ill cardiac patients. METHODS Prospective randomized pilot study of 40 ventilated adult patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery with use of cardiopulmonary bypass receiving inotropic support...

Density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) is applied to a (1+1)-dimensional λφ model to study spontaneous breakdown of discrete Z2 symmetry numerically. We obtain the critical coupling (λ/μ 2)c = 59.89 ± 0.01 and the critical exponent β = 0.1264 ± 0.0073, which are consistent with the Monte Carlo and the exact results, respectively. The results are based on extrapolation to the continuum limi...

Teicoplanin (TP) pharmacokinetics was assessed in a critically ill patient during albumin dialysis (AD), which was performed with the molecular adsorbent recirculating system. After a 1200-mg loading dose (24 mg/kg), doses of 1200 and 1000 mg (20 mg/kg) on day 2 and 3, respectively, were administered during two cycles of AD. The mean TP peak and trough concentrations amounted to 99.3 and 21.4 µ...

the conventional phase behavior study of petroleum reservoir fluids are valid when the reservoir temperature is far enough from the critical condition in which the material balance equation can be applied correctly. when the temperature of the reservoir is in the vicinity of the critical temperature the classical methods can’t determine the phase behavior of the mixture due to rapid phase chang...

one of the practices, particularly important in shi'ism is to pay khums.somesunnites believe there is merely one verse in quran concerning khums; thus itisnot so important. this single verse includes the spoils of war, not business profitand trade as shiites believe in it. but shiites criticize sunnites argument asfollows: 1- firstly, there is more than one quranic verse regarding it, seco...

With the recent advancements in interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) imaging it is necessary to understand how heliospheric images may be interpreted, particularly at large elongation angles. Of crucial importance is how the current methods used for coronal mass ejection measurement in coronagraph images must be changed to account for the large elongations involved in the heliosphere. In...

One widely perceived yet poorly understood phenomenon in the practice of critical infrastructure protection is that of blind spots. These are certain aspects of the interrelationships among different critical infrastructure systems (CI systems) that could trigger catastrophe across CI systems but are concealed from planners, and discovered only in the aftermath of a crisis. In this paper, we di...

In this letter we demonstrate the genericity of suppressed gaugino masses Ma ∼ m3/2 ln(MPlanck/m3/2) in the IIB string landscape, by showing that this relation holds for D7-brane gauginos whenever the associated modulus is stabilised by nonperturbative effects. Although m3/2 and Ma take many different values across the landscape, the above small mass hierarchy is maintained. We show that it is ...

Aims. We investigate the validity of mass segregation indicators commonly used in the analysis of young stellar clusters. Methods. We simulate observations by constructing synthetic seeing limited images of a 1000 massive clusters (10 M ) with a standard IMF and a King density distribution function. Results. We find that commonly used indicators are highly sensitive to sample incompleteness in ...