Silver sulfadiazine has been used as topical medication in the treatment of partial-thickness burns or secondary degree burns for many years. Pain during daily wound cleansing is the main problem. Urgotul SSD, a hydrocolloid dressing with silver sulfadiazine (SSD) has been reported to reduce infection and exhibit antimicrobial activity in burn wounds. The purpose of the present study was to com...

HYPOTHESIS To refine and extend the knowledge on cortical plasticity in single-sided deafness (SSD) by assessing magnetoencephalographic imaging in a well-defined group of subjects. BACKGROUND SSD causes difficulties with directional hearing, signal extraction in noise, and multispeaker identification and separation. In SSD, the ipsilateral auditory cortex is never powerfully driven by sound,...

In environmental risk assessment, Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSDs) can be applied to estimate a PNEC (Predicted No-Effect Concentration) for a chemical substance, when sufficient data on species toxicities are available. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) recommendation is 10 biological species. The question addressed in this paper, is whether QSAR-predicted toxicities can be included...

Delirium is a cognitive disorder characterized by acute onset, fluctuating course, altered level of consciousness, inattention, disorganized thinking, disorientation, memory impairment, and perceptual and motor disturbances (American Psychiatric Association, 2000; World Health Organization, 2010). It occurs in hyperactive, hypoactive, or mixed forms in up to 42% of older hospital inpatients (Si...

Flash-based solid-state drives have revolutionized storage with their high performance. Their sophisticated internal mechanisms have led to a plethora of research on how to optimize applications, file systems, and internal SSD designs. Due to the closed nature of commercial devices though, most research on the internals of an SSD, such as enhanced flash-translation layers, is performed using si...

Sexual size dimorphism (SSD) varies widely across and within species. The differential equilibrium model of SSD explains dimorphism as the evolutionary outcome of consistent differences in natural and sexual selection between the sexes. Here, we comprehensively examine a unique cross-continental reversal in SSD in the dung fly, Sepsis punctum. Using common garden laboratory experiments, we esta...

NAND flash-based SSDs utilize out-of-place update to prevent erase operations from blocking regular requests, in the meanwhile, out-of-place update creates a huge amount of invalid pages. Traditional FTLs perceive these invalid pages as useless data and discard them during garbage collection. But given value locality, certain values are likely to appear afterward, resulting in abundant invalid ...

Flash-based solid state storage devices (SSDs) are now becoming commonplace in server environments. In this paper, we consider the use of SSDs as a persistent second-tier cache for database systems. We argue that it is desirable to change the behavior of the database system’s buffer cache when a second-tier SSD cache is used, so that the buffer cache is aware of which pages are in the SSD cache...

BACKGROUND Applying sexual stature dimorphism (SSD) to history and the social sciences faces the difficulty of disentangling nature from nurture in addition to the limitations of sources (e.g. small, fragmented or heterogeneous samples). AIM To investigate the relationship between inter-generational changes and social differences in SSD and the evolution of living conditions in 20th-century S...