The second study on tight glycaemia control by intensive insulin therapy (IIT) confirmed in medical intensive care unit patients the decrease in hospital mortality reported by the same team in the first IIT trial in surgical patients. However, methodological concerns, the high rate of hypoglycaemia in spite of the infusion of large doses of parenteral glucose and the frequent use of steroids pr...

INTRODUCTION Hyperglycemia is a marker of poor prognosis in severe brain injuries. There is currently little data regarding the effects of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) on neurological recovery. METHODS A sub-group analysis of the randomized-controlled CGAO-REA study (NCT01002482) in surgical intensive care units (ICU) of two university hospitals. Patients with severe brain injury, with an ...

Significant fluctuations in serum glucose levels accompany the stress response of surgery or acute injury and may be associated with vascular or neurologic morbidity. Maintenance of euglycemia with intensive insulin therapy (IIT) continues to be investigated as a therapeutic intervention to decrease morbidity associated with derangements in glucose metabolism. Hypoglycemia is a common side effe...

intra-industry trade (iit) comprises of instantaneous imports and exports of goods and services which are handled in a same industry. the importance of iit between trading partners refers to those tradable products that provide them with diversity and high technology. to expand its foreign trade relations, iran indeed requires such trade patterns that include diversification of goods and servic...

Abstract In a recent work (Grasso et al., 2021), practitioners of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) claim to have overcome weaknesses causal reductionism in producing coherent account causation, as would blatantly conflate causation with prediction and could not answer question ‘what caused what.’ this paper, I reject such dismissal since IIT anti-reductionists misunderstand reductionist ...

The simultaneous exports and imports of a product within country or a particular industry called intra-industry trade (IIT) or two-way trade. In the recent years, the government of Pakistan had realized factors to liberalize the international trade. The literature of international economics demonstrates that this condition (trade liberalization) induces the IIT. The case study for Pakistan has ...

PeakForce Quantitative Nanomechanical Mapping (QNM) is a new atomic force microscopy technique for measuring the Young’s modulus of materials with high spatial resolution and surface sensitivity, by probing at the nanoscale. In the present work, modulus results from PeakForceTM QNMTM using three different probes are presented for a number of different polymers with a range of Young’s moduli tha...

I nstrumented indentation testing (IIT) is a technique for measuring the mechanical properties of materials. It is a development of traditional hardness tests such as Brinell, Rockwell, Vickers, and Knoop. IIT is similar to traditional hardness testing in that a hard indenter, usually diamond, is pressed into contact with the test material. However, traditional hardness testing yields only one ...

The integrated information theory (IIT) of consciousness is becoming an increasingly popular neuroscientific account of phenomenal experience. IIT claims that consciousness is integrated information in a system. I set this theory against the hard problem of consciousness (Chalmers, 1996; 1995) as the goal for a theory of consciousness to meet. In this paper I look to examine and ultimately crit...

Background. Studies on the effect of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) in septic patients with hyperglycemia have given inconsistent results. The primary purpose of this meta-analysis was to evaluate whether it is effective in reducing mortality. Methods. We searched PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, clinicaltrials.gov, and relevant reference lists up to September 2013 and including randomize...