Monitoring the injured brain to detect and treat harmful events that can cause secondary injury during the acute recovery period is a central part of neurointensive care. The most basic monitoring tool is the neurological examination, such as the Glasgow Coma Score; however, a large component of this scale involves verbal communication and braininjured patents are often comatose, mechanically v...

Semiactive control systems that offer the reliability of passive control systems as well as the versatility and adaptability of active control systems have received significant attention for structural vibration control (Jung et al., 2004). Magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers have emerged as such a class of semiactive damping devices. By activating the MR fluid contained in the device through...

decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of evidence-based medicine (ebm). an increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence studies. interpretation of the results of these reviews should be accompanied by an appraisal of the methodological quality of the included data and studies. the critical a...

Scyphomedusae undergo a predictable ontogenetic transition from a conserved, universal larval form to a diverse array of adult morphologies. This transition entails a change in bell morphology from a highly discontinuous ephyral form, with deep clefts separating eight discrete lappets, to a continuous solid umbrella-like adult form. We used a combination of kinematic, modeling, and flow visuali...