BACKGROUND In ICU patients with normal serum creatinine (SCr), a state of increased renal drug excretion has been described (creatinine clearance ≥130 ml/min/1.73 m(2)), and named augmented renal clearance (ARC). In ICU patients, the accuracy of GFR estimates is insufficient. However, in clinical practice, the physician has not at one's disposal patient measured creatinine clearance (CrCl) when...

Back-arc extension has been well documented in subduction plate tectonic regimes. However, the reasons why back-arc extensions are associated with some systems but not others have remained elusive. Here, spatio-temporal variations composition of Cenozoic basalts northeast Asian continental margin used to constrain mechanism for episodic extensions. Using geochemical data sensitive affinity, we ...

The arc-factored model is the simplest graph-based model for dependency parsing, a model that factorizes the scoring function in terms of subgraphs of the dependency tree. The arc-factored model is often referred to as a first-order model, because it decomposes the score of a tree into the scores of one arc at a time. From a linguistic point of view, this is a rather drastic assumption, similar...

The present worldwide study of 31 off-shore back-arc basins and subbasins (BABs) identifies their principal characteristics based on a broad spectrum geophysical subduction-related parameters. This synthesis is next used to identify trends in evolution the for improving our understanding subduction systems general. analysis, plate configuration, demonstrates that fate are essentially controlled...

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We developed an algorithm to find and characterize gravitationally lensed galaxies (arcs) to perform a comparison of the observed and simulated arc abundance. Observations are from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). Simulated CLASH images are created using the MOKA package and also clusters selected from the high-resolution, hydrodynamical simulations, MUSIC, over the...

| This paper presents the design and implementation of ARC | a tool for automated veriication of concurrent systems. The tool is based on the untimed CSP language, its semantic models and theory of reenement. We alleviate the combinatorial explosion problem using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (OBDDs) for the internal representation of complex data structures | sets and labeled transition sys...

The transcription of the immediate-early genes Arc and Homer 1a (H1a) is dynamically regulated in response to synaptic activity; their protein products function at the postsynaptic sites of excitatory synapses. Previous studies demonstrate a role for Arc in the maintenance of long-term potentiation and in memory consolidation processes and indicate a role for H1a in modifying glutamatergic sign...

We examine the size s(n) of a smallest tournament having the arcs of an acyclic tournament on n vertices as a minimum feedback arc set. Using an integer linear programming formulation we obtain lower bounds s(n) ≥ 3n − 2 − blog2 nc or s(n) ≥ 3n − 1 − blog2 nc, depending on the binary expansion of n. When n = 2k − 2t we show that the bounds are tight with s(n) = 3n−2−blog2 nc. One view of this p...