BACKGROUND Cricoid pressure or to be more exact cricoid force (CF) can cause airway obstruction and subsequent difficulty with airway management during an emergency induction. METHODS We studied 30 children with an age range of 3 months to 15 yr who presented for routine bronchoscopy or other surgical procedures requiring tracheal intubation. We looked at the effect of CF on the calibre of th...

Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the primary cause of infection with impaired defense mechanisms. P. aeruginosa commonly causes nosocomial infections and is the most common pathogen isolated from patients hospitalized for longer than 1 week. We examined the antimicrobial effect of multilayered carbon nanotubes on multi-drug-resistant. Materials and methods: In this research, 20 clinical i...

Visual map features like streets, rail tracks, or rivers do not provide enough space to visualize multiple attributes on them. Related approaches to solve space issues distort the map with lenses, apply distortion techniques to the map geometry, or employ three dimensional visualizations. All these techniques come at the cost of distortion or overlapping of relevant map features or they even pr...

In this paper, we propose a new method to compensate for lens distortions in image stitching. Lens distortions that arise from the nonlinearity of a lens are the main cause for mismatches in stitching images. We estimate the distortion factors for each image using the Division Model and linearize the projected relationships between matching distorted feature points. Because our method works at ...

Interactive fisheye views use distortion to show both local detail and global context in the same display space. Although fisheyes allow the presentation and inspection of large data sets, the distortion effects can cause problems for users. One such problem is memorability – the ability to find and go back to objects and features in the data. In this paper we investigate the issue of how peopl...

The concept of coherent risk measure was introduced in Artzner et al. (1999). They listed some properties, called axioms of ‘coherence’, that any good risk measure should possess, and studied the (non-)coherence of widely-used risk measure such as Value-atRisk (VaR) and expected shortfall (also known as tail conditional expectation or tail VaR). Kusuoka (2001) introduced two additional axioms c...