Despite recent advances in perinatal medicine and in the art of neonatal resuscitation, resuscitation strategy and treatment methods in the delivery room should be individualized depending on the unique characteristics of the neonate. The constantly increasing evidence has resulted in significant treatment controversies, which need to be resolved with further clinical and experimental research.

BACKGROUND Hospitals are faced with increasingly resistant strains of micro-organisms. When it comes to disinfection, individual parts of electronic equipment of angiology diagnostics such as patient couches of computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners prove to be very hard to disinfect. Disinfectants of choice are therefore expected to possess properties such as ra...

As Drs Wootton, Arnold, and Tyson acknowledged, many emergency therapies have never been rigorously studied. Neonatal resuscitation medicine is especially bereft of highlevel evidence. Only 23 of 157 (15%) publications cited in the 2010 ILCOR statement on neonatal resuscitation were randomized trials or metaanalyses of trials (level of evidence [LOE] 1) (Table 1). In contrast, 114 (73%) studies...

among structured peer-to-peer systems, chord has a general popularity due to its salient features like simplicity, high scalability, small path length with respect to network size, and flexibility on node join and departure. however, chord doesn’t take into account the topology of underlying physical network when a new node is being added to the system, thus resulting in high routing latency an...

The main concern of thi s paper i s t he det ect i on of double-cont act con gur at i ons f or s ome pol ygons movi ng i n t r ans l at i on i n a pol ygonal envi r onment . We r s t es t abl i s h s ome gener al pr oper t i es about s uch con gur at i ons , and gi ve condi t i ons of exi s t ence of doubl econt act s f or two or t hr ee object s . We deduce an al gor i t hm det ect i ng s uch ...

introduction: timeliness has been considered as a key domain in quality of emergency department (ed) care and delay in care providing is influential determinants of patient’s outcomes. the present study, aimed to evaluate the determinants of prolonged ed length of stay (los). methods: in this cross-sectional study, using adopted version of the latest form for external evaluation and accreditati...

Using well-defined selection criteria applied to the LEDA galaxy catalogue we have constructed a sample of elliptical galaxies that can be taken to lie in the field. Such criteria can easily be applied to theoretical simulations for direct comparison with observations. The variation of the number of ‘isolated’ ellipticals with selection criteria is also investigated. A preliminary study of the ...

one of the difficulties of data envelopment analysis(dea) is the problem of de ciency discriminationamong efficient decision making units(dmus) and hence, yielding large number of dmus as efficientones. the main purpose of this paper is to overcome this inability. one of the methods for rankingefficient dmus is minimizing the coefficient of variation (cv) for inputs-outputs weights. in this pap...