The cause of the increase in core temperature (CT) during hemodialysis (HD) is still under debate. It has been suggested that peripheral vasoconstriction as a result of hypovolemia, leading to a reduced dissipation of heat from the skin, is the main cause of this increase in CT. If so, then it would be expected that extracorporeal heat flow (Jex) needed to maintain a stable CT (isothermic; T-co...

BACKGROUND The clinical criteria to assess hydration status are not always reliable. Hence, the development of techniques to estimate more accurately post-dialysis dry weight (DW) remains a major challenge. The present study evaluates the value of the inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter, plasma concentration of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), and plasma renin activity (PRA) in determining the D...

It is the purpose of this paper to construct unique factorization (uf) monoids and domains. The principal results are: (1) The free product of a well-ordered set of monoids is a uf-monoid iff every monoid in the set is a uf-monoid. (2) If M is an ordered monoid and F is a field, the ring ^[[iW"]] of all formal power series with well-ordered support is a uf-domain iff M is naturally ordered (i.e...

Excessive sodium gain is a major hindrance of sodium profiling hemodialysis (HD) that offsets the benefit in reducing intradialytic hypotension-related discomforts (IHD). Patients who showed frequent IHD (>30% of the sessions; n = 11) were enrolled in a prospective study that consisted of two phases. In the phase 1 study, eight treatment modalities were evaluated: Conventional HD (control), sod...

Uniform one-dimensional fragment UF=1 is a formalism obtained from first-order logic by limiting quantification to applications of blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers such that at most one variable remains free in the quantified formula. The fragment is closed under Boolean operations, but additional restrictions (called uniformity conditions) apply to combinations of atomic formulas ...

BACKGROUND The putative neural bases of affected episodic memory and emotional recognition in early Alzheimer's disease are suspected to be limbic and paralimbic pathological processes. The uncinate fasciculus (UF) is especially considered to be a critical structure. In the present study, we investigated microstructural UF pathology by diffusion tensor imaging in the subjects with amnestic mild...

The production of titanium dioxide via the sulfuric acid process generates large amounts acidic wastewater. Investigating possibility reusing this wastewater after deep treatment can reduce pollutant discharge and conserve water resources. In a pilot study, dual-membrane method ultrafiltration (UF) reverse osmosis (RO) was employed to perform treatments sulfuric-acid–titanium-dioxide findings s...

OBJECTIVE It has been proposed that biocompatible bicarbonate/lactate based (Bic/Lac), physiologic-pH peritoneal dialysis (PD) solutions will be beneficial in long-term PD. However, we do not yet have detailed knowledge concerning the comparative physiology of buffer transport for these new solutions and their impact on underlying peritoneal transport of solutes and ultrafiltration (UF). The pu...