State and federal reclamation programs, mining operators, and citizen-based watershed organizations have constructed hundreds of passive systems in the eastern U.S. over the past 20 years to provide reliable, low cost, low maintenance mine water treatment in remote locations. While performance has been reported for individual systems, there has not been a comprehensive evaluation of the perform...

BACKGROUND The peritoneal spread of cancer is a well-known entity carrying a dismal prognosis. A new therapeutic approach is the combination of cytoreduction with heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPC). The risk of an intra-abdominal anastomosis in the presence of such chemotherapy is recognized clinically but the experimental data on the subject are lacking. The aim of this study is to exa...

This paper presents the design of a digitally-controlled speed electrical drive in the presence of arbitrary external immeasurable load disturbances. The extraction of a known class of external disturbances is achieved by using the novel DOB (Disturbance Observer), in which the discrete-time model of external disturbance is included implicitly. It is shown, analytically, by simulation, and expe...

A 62-day controlled aquifer test was performed at the site of a new municipal well that penetrates a thick sequence of compressible basin-fill deposits in Mesquite, Nevada. Observation data were acquired from a high precision Global Positioning System (GPS) network to accompany the water-level data from the pumped well and a nearby observation well. The purpose of the investigation was to quant...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Hypertension is a common problem in hemodialysis (HD). However, its behavior during the interdialytic period is not completely known and is infrequently monitored in clinical practice. Thus, for better understanding of interdialytic blood pressure (BP), we analyzed the interdialytic blood pressure profile using 44-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) data in 7...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate C-reactive protein (CRP) as a predictor complications during autologous stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods: We analyzed cohort 340 transplants. Correlation analyses were performed, including CRP obtained before HSCT, on Day+3, Day+6, Day+9, after Day+11, and at the onset febrile neutropenia, following outcomes: bacteremia, severity mucositis, l...

An echocardiogram performed on a 72-year–old man with exertional dyspnea revealed asymmetrical septal hypertrophy (maximum thickness, 1.8 mm) and turbulent flow in the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT; Movie I in the onlineonly Data Supplement) with a resting gradient of 62 mm Hg and a peak provoked gradient of 166 mm Hg after Valsalva maneuver (Figure, A and B), consistent with hypertrophi...