The retention behavior on poly(oxyethylene) (POE) chemically-bonded stationary phases was investigated in ion-exchange, reversed-phase (RP) and hydrophilic interaction (HILIC) modes in capillary liquid chromatography. The eluent cations fixed on the oxygen atoms of the POE chains by ion-dipole interaction worked as the anion-exchange sites for the separation of inorganic anions. Nonpolar analyt...

The present article reviews the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) or polyoxyethylene (POE) as the stationary phase for the separation of inorganic anions in ion chromatography and discusses about the retention mechanisms involved in the separation of anions on the novel stationary phases. PEG permanently coated on a hydrophobic stationary phase retained anions in the partition mode and allowed ...

A Product of Experts (PoE) model is a probabilistic model which combines a number of individual component models by multiplying their probabilities. A typical PoE model is an exponential family Harmonious introduced by Welling et al. In this paper, we apply a hierarchical PoE model, Complex-Cell Model (CCM), to image retrival and compare the performance with a kind of standard harmonious model,...

The authors retrospectively explored cortical differences between 26 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and psychosis of epilepsy (POE), 24 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) alone, and 20 healthy comparison subjects. Using voxel-based morphometry based on statistical parametric mapping (SPM99), which is an unbiased and fully automated technique to test for morphometric differences, m...

Background: Medication dosing errors may have grave consequences for neonatal patients. Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) with dosing decision support functionalities has been effective in reducing these errors. However, the adoption rate is low. Physicians' resistance has been identified as a significant barrier. To reduce this resistance, the system should be designed in close collabo...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most celebrated writers of all time. He published several masterpieces, some of which include references to neurological diseases. Poe suffered from recurrent depression, suggesting a bipolar disorder, as well as alcohol and drug abuse, which in fact led to his death from complications related to alcoholism. Various hypotheses were put forward, including Wernicke'...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of hypoglycemic treatment regimens with cardiovascular adverse events and mortality in a large population of type 2 diabetic patients at increased cardiovascular risk. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This analysis included 8,192 overweight patients with type 2 diabetes from the Sibutramine Cardiovascular Outcomes (SCOUT) trial randomized to lifestyle interventi...

CONTEXT Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a significant and costly cause of injury during hospitalization. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of 2 interventions for preventing nonintercepted serious medication errors, defined as those that either resulted in or had potential to result in an ADE and were not intercepted before reaching the patient. DESIGN Before-after comparison between phase ...

We have prepared a viscous bicontinuous microemulsion consisting of water / [20 wt% POE-GIS + 30 wt% PEPTME + 47.5 wt% POE/POP-PDMS + 2.5 wt% OA)] / DMPS system. A pseudoternary phase diagram was constructed for the mixture, and the bicontinuous microemulsion phase was characterized by means of rheometry and freeze-fracture transmission electron microscopy (FF-TEM).