Background: Monitoring serves to maintain physiologic variables within normal limits and when a parameter crosses a set threshold, an alarm is triggered. Therefore, this study aimed to determine whether alarm limits are properly adjusted in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by nursing staff or not.Methods: The data concerning alarm limits corresponding to the three shifts of nursing...

Surfur-bearing molecules have been found at the surface of Mars by the Viking lander, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, and the OMEGA infrared spectrometer aboard Mars Express. However, no gaseous sulfur-bearing species have ever been detected in the Martian atmosphere. We search for SO2 signatures in the thermal spectrum of Mars at 7.4 μm using the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TE...

It is important to know the spatial extent over which the binocular visual system searches for "matches" or image correspondence. Most models of stereopsis define fixed neighbourhoods in one monocular image in which a search is conducted for a match to some element in the other image. We were unable to experimentally determine fixed values for the extent of these neighbourhoods. We were, howeve...

It is shown that the effective Standard Model theory with the physical Higgs mass lighter than ∼ 200 GeV takes the form of an unbroken electroweak theory already at moderately high, O(1 TeV), energy scales. No such transitional scale exists for the heavier Higgses. This result is independently obtained by two standard regularization methods. Present address: Department of Physics, Lyman Lab, ro...

This article is based on data gathered with three facilities: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the 6.5 m Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), and the 2.15-m J. Sahade telescope at Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito (CASLEO). The HST observations are associated with GO program 10602. HST is controlled from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the ...

No instruments in the inner radiation belt are immune from the unforgiving penetration of the highly energetic protons (tens of MeV to GeV). The inner belt proton flux level, however, is relatively stable; thus, for any given instrument, the proton contamination often leads to a certain background noise. Measurements from the Relativistic Electron and Proton Telescope integrated little experime...

Higgs Tevatron combination, more data and new channels (WH → τνbb̄, VH → ττbb̄/ j jττ , VH → j jbb̄, tt̄H → tt̄bb̄) have been added. Most previously used channels have been reanalyzed to gain sensitivity. We use the latest parton distribution functions and gg → H theoretical cross sections when comparing our limits to the SM predictions. With 2.0-3.6 fb−1 of data analyzed at CDF, and 0.9-4.2 fb−1 at ...

An upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay K+ → e+νμ+μ− is set at 5.0× 10−7 at 90% confidence level, consistent with predictions from chiral perturbation theory.