acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a complex disorder of heterogeneous etiologies characterized by a consistent, recognizable pattern of lung injury and a potentially devastating form of acute inflammatory lung injury with a high short-term mortality rate and significant long-term consequences among survivors. recently, the new definition of ards has been published, and this definiti...

A new definition of boundedness of linear order-homomorphisms (LOH)in $L$-topological vector spaces is proposed. The new definition iscompared with the previous one given by Fang [The continuity offuzzy linear order-homomorphism, J. Fuzzy Math. 5 (4) (1997)829$-$838]. In addition, the relationship between boundedness andcontinuity of LOHs is discussed. Finally, a new uniform boundednessprincipl...

Before setting up a working definition of an electronic market (EM), let us look at the functions of markets in our economic system. According to traditional market market situation, branch or technological trends will be useful. This phase results in a list of potential partners in the market and their offer and/or demand. Phase 2: Trading. As soon as all information has been evaluated, we can...

We show that the standard normalization-by-evaluation construction for the simply-typed λβη-calculus has a natural counterpart for the untyped λβ-calculus, with the central type-indexed logical relation replaced by a “recursively defined” invariant relation, in the style of Pitts. In fact, the construction can be seen as generalizing a computationaladequacy argument for an untyped, call-by-name...

s The Government's 2002 Communications Bill (Draft) promises for the first time to 'promote media literacy' among the population of the UK, improving public awareness and understanding of contents and services provided through electronic media. s In order to establish the present level of media literacy among the UK population, and in order to set the benchmark against which future initiatives ...