Disorders of sodium and water metabolism are frequently encountered in hospitalized patients. Hyponatremia in critically ill patients can cause significant morbidity and mortality. Inappropriate treatment of hyponatremia can add to the problem. The diagnosis and management of salt and water abnormalities in critically ill patients is often challenging. The increasing knowledge about aquaporins ...

Diagnosis of water quality can be assessed through toxicity tests and by analyzing the negative effects of water quality parameters. Such diagnosis provides an indicator of the condition of the shrimp 1 Report on PhD thesis. Graduated: José Juan Carbajal Hernández, Advisor: Luis Pastor Sánchez Fernández. Graduation date: 28/07/2010. ecosystem. In this research, three models for water quality di...

Currently, in the water distribution systems literature, fault detection methods are typically evaluated on benchmark networks that do not include real-time experimental data, or private commercial datasets, which prohibit reproducibility of results. Moreover, realistic modeling faults hydraulic system components, sensors and actuators is often unavailable. In this work, we provide a framework ...

Indoor risk factors for physician-diagnosed asthma and wheezing in the past 12 months without previous asthma diagnosis were assessed in a survey of parents of 5-9-year-old Seattle primary school students. Among the 925 respondents, 106 (11%) reported a physician diagnosis of asthma, 66 (7%) had wheezing without diagnosis, and 753 (82%) were asymptomatic. After adjusting for age, sex, gender, e...

Data mining is an appropriate way to discover information and hidden patterns in large amounts of data, where the hidden patterns cannot be easily discovered in normal ways. One of the most interesting applications of data mining is the discovery of diseases and disease patterns through investigating patients' records. Early diagnosis of diabetes can reduce the effects of this devastating disea...