BACKGROUND In chronic haemodialysis (HD), morbidity may result from repetitive induction of the acute phase response, caused by a bioincompatible dialysis membrane and/or contaminated dialysate. In the present study, cytokine release (interleukin-6, IL-6) and subsequent production of acute phase proteins (C-reactive protein, CRP and secretory phospholipase A(2), sPLA(2)) were assessed to invest...

this paper presents an application of benders decomposition to deal with the complexities in the simultaneous generation expansion planning (gep) and transmission expansion planning (tep). unlike the power system operation fields of study, the power system planning methods are not expected to be fast. however, it is always preferable to speed up computations to provide more analysis options for...

Background: Modified ultra filtration (MUF) has become widely used in pediatric cardiac surgery. MUF is capable to remove large amounts of fluid with significant improvement in the post-cardiopulmonary bypass status and laboratory parameters of the patients. There is; however; contradicting reports in the overall clinical outcome benefit following MUF. Methods: Thirty patients weighing less tha...

The statistical theory of fluctuations was initiated by ERICSON 1 in 1960 in the appendix of his review article on the statistical model of the compound nucleus. This was at a time when nuclear fluctuations had not yet been observed or recognized as such in scattering experiments. ERICSON pointed out that the excitation functions and angular distributions of nuclear reactions involving a compou...

Expressions for peak and average powers required to produce a given average gradient in an accelerator section are given. They are valid for both lossy and lossless (superconducting) sections, for both traveling wave and standing wave sections, and for pulsed or continuous wave rf input. The expressions are given in terms of structure parameters that are equally applicable to traveling wave or ...