BACKGROUND Ventilation monitoring practice for intubated pediatric patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) during interfacility transport (IFT) has not been well documented. We describe the difference of practices in ventilation monitoring during IFT from the perspective of a level I pediatric trauma center with an enormous catchment area. METHODS Patients admitted between July 2008...

This report summarizes the recent findings on gas transport mechanisms in shale reservoir by pore network modelling. Multi-scale model was developed to accurately characterize structure. The single component established considering slippage and real property. systems were elaborated this basis. A multicomponent hydrocarbon further proposed influences of capillary pressure fluid occurrence fugacity...

Two-dimensional electron and hole gas systems, enabled through band structure design and epitaxial growth on planar substrates, have served as key platforms for fundamental condensed matter research and high-performance devices. The analogous development of one-dimensional (1D) electron or hole gas systems through controlled growth on 1D nanostructure substrates, which could open up opportuniti...

INTRODUCTION A pneumatic tube system (PTS) is a cost-effective, rapid transport modality that utilizes induced pressure changes. We evaluated the clinical importance of 2 transport modalities, human courier and PTS, for blood gas specimens. METHODS Following open heart surgery, 35 simultaneous pairs of arterial and venous blood gas specimens were analyzed from 20 subjects. Of each pair, one s...

This paper addresses systematic variations in the interpretation of indefinites and plurals when appearing within prepositional phrases and other spatial expressions. We show that these variations are explained when spatial processes in semantics locate the sets associated with properties and other setbased denotations of nominals. Starting with spatial indefinites we consider contrasts like th...

Abstract Effective diffusion is an important macroscopic property for assessing transport in porous media. Numerical computations on segmented 3D CT images yield precise estimates diffusive properties. On the other hand, geometrical descriptors of pore space such as porosity, specific surface area and further transport-related can be easily computed from are closely linked to processes. However...

The replacement of methane with carbon dioxide in natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments is considered a promising technology for simultaneously recovering natural gas and entrapping CO2. During the CH4-CO2 replacement process, the variations of geophysical property of the hydrate reservoir need to be adequately known. Since the acoustic wave velocity is an important geophysical property, in thi...

In this work we propose to use an approach based on genetic algorithms to obtain analytical redundancy relations to study the diagnosability property on a given continuous production system. Diagnosability analysis for production systems examines the detectability property (the faults are discriminable from the normal behavior of the system) and the isolability property (the faults are discrimi...