The purpose of this study was to identify which variables are the best predictors of a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) classification and develop a model to predict the nursing care required by DNR patients in the ICU. Data collected on DNR and non-DNR patients included nursing care requirements, severity of illness, resource allocation and sociodemographic characteristics. One model identified the be...

– Over a 3-year period, we studied the relationship between the intensity of human recreation and the nesting ecology of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) at a major nesting beach. Our results suggest that the intensity of human recreation at this site had no effect on the decision of turtles to emerge from the water and nest, or on habitat selection by nesting turtles. This apparent lack of...

The Internet has been engineered over the last thirty years to interconnect devices across the globe in an adaptable and fault-tolerant manner. Along with the development of the Internet, a suite of distributed applications ranging from electronic mail to the World Wide Web that rely upon the global Internet have grown in use and scope in parallel with the universal deployment and use of the In...

ecstasy is one of the newest drugs in the same category with amphetamines which has stimulating effects in the same families of amphetamines and lsd. there hasn't been a structured and organized study on this drug in iran. it has been used in great scale in all western countries. studies at san francisco and australia with snowballing method, revealed that this drug is used by active young...

In this paper, we present the Quantitative Usage Analysis of Data (QUAD) tool, a sophisticated memory access tracing tool that provides a comprehensive quantitative analysis of memory access patterns of an application with the primary goal of detecting actual data dependencies at function-level. As improvements in processing performance continue to outpace improvements in memory performance, to...

one of the purposes of ecotourism is to relax and aspirate the natural energy. sacred and energetic sites are the locations for experiencing the relaxation. since 2005 the ecotourism for aspirating the natural energy or spiritual ecotourism has been developed in iran. there are some places in iran which have a kind of energy as subtle energy for increasing personal health and awareness. these p...

Research on forest recreation over the last 60 years has been voluminous. Research on nontimber forest products (NTFP) has been much less voluminous. In this chapter the history of these two tracks of research has been reviewed. Not all studies are mentioned; rather, a representative selection of the subject matter is discussed. Forest recreation research had its beginnings in the late 1950s wi...

This study characterizes the behavior of students in one of the Sub-Saharan Africa universities with respect to usage of valuable, but expensive Internet resources in a developing economy. Traffic allocation to web domains was compared with known statistical distributions such as Zipf and Stretched exponential distributions. Observed results show that traffic allocation follows stretched expone...

Adaptive re-use gives new cycle to a site, instead of freezing it at particular moment in time, explores the options destruction recreation. Planting layer without erasing roots earlier layers, an adaptive reuse continues with its identity long history, along addressing concerns scarcity land.