INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology and management of acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in Ireland. METHODS As part of a 10-week prospective national audit of patient demographics and organ failure incidence in intensive care in Ireland, all patients with ALI/ARDS in 14 participating centres were prospectively identified...

Background: Acute lung injury (ALI) and its extreme manifestation the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) complicate a wide variety of serious medical and surgical conditions. Thioredoxin is a small ubiquitous thiol protein with redox/inflammation modulatory properties relevant to the pathogenesis of ALI. We therefore investigated whether thioredoxin is raised extracellulary in patients ...

Although acute lung injury (ALI) is a common complication of severe malaria, little is known about the underlying molecular basis of lung dysfunction. Animal models have provided powerful insights into the pathogenesis of severe malaria syndromes such as cerebral malaria (CM); however, no model of malaria-induced lung injury has been definitively established. This study used bronchoalveolar lav...

Property concepts across categories Adjectival meanings—known in the typological literature as property concepts (PCs)—are lexicalized in two ways in the Senegambian language Wolof: i) via stative verbs (PCVs) denoting relations between individuals and properties (1); ii) via mass nouns, denoting the abstract properties themselves (PCNs) (2). (1) PCVs: xonq/njool/bees/baax/rafet red/tall/new/go...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the protective effect of chitosan oligosaccharide (COS) on acute lung injury (ALI) caused by blast injury, and explore possible molecular mechanisms. METHODS A mouse model of blast injury-induced ALI was established using a self-made explosive device. Thirty mice were randomly assigned to control, ALI and ALI + COS groups. An eight-channel physiological monitor was us...

Remote sensing has more advantages than the traditional methods of land surface water (LSW) mapping because it is a low-cost, reliable information source that is capable of making high-frequency and repeatable observations. The normalized difference water indexes (NDWIs), calculated from various band combinations (green, near-infrared (NIR), or shortwave-infrared (SWIR)), have been successfully...

background: enterobius vermicularis (formerly oxyuriasis vermicularis), is a prevalent parasitic infection especially in preschool children worldwide. the present study aimed to explore the prevalence of oxyuriasis and its influencing factors in kindergartens.materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on 175 children using multi-stage sampling method in ali abad-e-katoul city-...

Ziele. Mit dem Projekt „ali – Aachener eLeitprogramme der Informatik“ verfolgen wir mehrere Ziele, die dazu beitragen sollen, Lehrkräften gute Unterrichtsbeispiele zur Verfügung zu stellen und die Arbeitsweise einer „fremden“ Unterrichtsvorbereitung sowie den Einsatz digitaler Medien zu etablieren. Zum einen sollen aktuelle Unterrichtsinhalte der Informatik mit konkret ausgearbeiteten Beispiele...

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a lung disease characterized by pulmonary edema and severe hypoxia. The past decade hosted a search for endogenous mechanisms controlling lung inflammation and pulmonary edema during ALI. As such, recent evidence indicates extracellular adenosine in orchestrating the resolution of pulmonary edema and inflammation during ALI.