In this study, the experimental results exhibit that the mixture of water + acetic acid + methyl acetate + pxylene has interesting phase behaviors of vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) and vapor-liquid-liquid equilibrium (VLLE) under pressure of 101.32 kPa. The VLE and VLLE data were obtained with a condensed-vapor-phase-recirculating still as described in the text. The experimental data are useful...

361. Duration of colonization with KPC-producing bacteria at long-term acute care hospitals in Chicago, USA Manon Haverkate, MSc; Shayna Weiner, MPH; Michael Y. Lin, MD, MPH; Donald Blom, RN, BA; Karen Lolans, BS; Nicholas Moore, MS; Rosie D. Lyles, MD, MHA; Kavya Poluru; Lluïsa Guillem; Robert A. Weinstein, MD, FIDSA; Marc Bonten, MD PhD; Mary K. Hayden, MD, FSHEA, FIDSA; Martin Bootsma, PhD; ...

Introduction Low back pain (LBP) remains a leading cause of disability and is one of the most prevalent and costly conditions treated in primary care (Hayden et al, 2005a). In the UK, the total direct and indirect costs have been estimated at between £5 and £10 billion, with the majority of this absorbed by indirect societal costs (Maniadakis and Gray, 2000). Similar high costs exist in other c...

monary complications associated with the placement of narrowbore enteral feeding tubes. Crit Care 1998; 2: 25–8 2 Pillai JB, Vegas A, Brister S. Thoracic complications of nasogastric tube: review of safe practice. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2005; 4: 429–33 3 Wittgrove AC, Clark GW, Tremblay LJ. Laparoscopic gastric bypass, Roux-en-Y: preliminary report of five cases. Obes Surg 1994; 4: 353...

We analyze uncertainty relations on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces expressed in terms of classical fidelity, which are stronger then metric uncertainty relations introduced by Fawzi, Hayden and Sen. We establish validity of fidelity uncertainty relations for random unitary matrices with optimal parameters (up to universal constants) which improves upon known results for the weaker notion of ...

Functional development of the mammary gland occurs during pregnancy. When dairy cows and goats are gestating twins, mammary gland development is amplified due to hormonal signals from the much larger fetal-placental unit. Carrying twins seemingly programs higher milk production to meet the needs of “double the trouble” (Nielen et al., 1989, Hayden et al., 1979). But what if fetal-placental sign...

Boiling points have been determined at 101.33 kPa for the binary mixtures of sulfolane + o-xylene, sulfolane + m-xylene, sulfolane+p-xylene, sulfolane+ethylbenzene and sulfolane+1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Calculations of the non-ideality of the vapor phase were made with the second virial coefficients evaluated from the Hayden–O’Connell method. The binary parameters for five activity coefficient m...

Randomization of quantum states is the quantum analogue of the classical one-time pad. We present an improved, efficient construction of an approximately randomizing map that uses O(d/ ) Pauli operators to map any d-dimensional state to a state that is within trace distance of the completely mixed state. Our bound is a log d factor smaller than that of Hayden, Leung, Shor, and Winter [7], and A...

Oxidative stress plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of inflammation (Winrow et al., 1993), which is a physiological response that protects the body from stimuli including infections and tissue injury. The magnitude of the inflammatory response is crucial, and insufficient responses result in immunodeficiency, which can lead to infection and cancer. Excessive responses cause morbidity and...

In this paper, we propose a bounded influence estimation (BIE) and outlier detection procedure for GARCH models. Previous studies show that maximum likelihood estimates of GARCH models are sensitive to outliers and financial time series present a heavy tail due to outliers. The proposed BIE limits the influence of a small subset of the data and is asymptotically normal. Its robustness against o...