Arterial blood gases (ABG) are obtained commonly in dyspneic persons presenting to emergency departments. The study by Burri and colleagues found that the information contained in ABG fails to distinguish between pulmonary and other causes of dyspnea. On the other hand, arterial pH was highly predictive of ICU admission and outcome. Until large clinical studies show equivalence between peripher...

in this paper we study the concept of ph-biatness ofa banach algebra a, where ph is a continuous homomorphism on a.we prove that if ph is a continuous epimorphism on a and a hasa bounded approximate identity and a is ph- biat, then a is ph-amenable. in the case where ph is an isomorphism on a we showthat the ph- amenability of a implies its ph-biatness.

During the last decade a lot of effort has been devoted to study in detail generalized parton distributions (GPDs) as well as transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs). While GPDs enter the QCD description of hard exclusive reactions on the nucleon, TMDs appear in connection with various semi-inclusive processes. Recent work has suggested for the first time very interesting non-...

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA Physics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059, USA CERN, CH–1211 Genève 23, Switzerland Antwerp University, B–2610 Wilrijk, Belgium Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA Instituto de F́ısica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), E–39005 ...

We investigate O’Raifeartaigh-type models for F-term supersymmetry breaking in gauge mediation scenarios in the presence of gravity. It is pointed out that the vacuum structure of those models is such that in metastable vacua gravity mediation contribution to scalar masses is always suppressed to the level below 1 percent, almost sufficient for avoiding FCNC problem. Close to that limit, gravit...

Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Yasushi Ohkusa,Ph.D., Tamie Sugawara, Mika Shigematsu,M.D.,Ph.D.,Kiyosu Taniguchi,M.D.,Ph.D., Nobuhiko Okabe,M.D.,Ph.D. Department of Pediatrics, Shimane Prefectual Central Hospital, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Objective So as to be able to detect nosocomial outbreaks at an early stage, we examine the construction of a syndromic surveillance system for inpatients...

Dr. James E. Doyle is a technical staff member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His professional focus is on systems analysis, strategic planning, and policy development. Dr. Doyle holds a Ph.D in International Security Studies from the University of Virginia. Previously, Dr. Doyle was a senior policy analyst at Science Applications ...

For any operator on integer-valued functions, we say that #P is closed under in context PF#P if, for every f 2 #P, f] belongs to PF #P. For several operators , it is shown that the closure properties of #P under in the above sense is closely related to the relationships between P #PP1] and higher classes such as PH PP and PP PP .

In recent years, the decay η → 3π has received considerable attention from experimental and theoretical side. It is of particular theoretical interest because it allows for the determination of (mu −md). In addition, for many years now theory has had difficulties to understand the slope of the neutral channel Dalitz plot distribution, which in contrast is very well measured. I discuss here the ...