The current study explored the effects of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) combined with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) anticoagulant therapy on severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). A total of 134 patients with SAP that received treatment between June 2008 and June 2012 were divided randomly into groups A (control; n=33), B (IIT; n=33), C (LMWH; n=34) and D (IIT + LMWH; n=34). Group A were trea...

We present an analysis of the intra-industry nature of agri-food trade between Hungary and the European Union, following the Association Agreement signed in 1991. A slight growth in intra-industry trade (IIT) is indicated by the Grubel-Lloyd index. However, it is not uniform by product group or EU member state or over time, reflecting different patterns of bilateral integration and an economic ...

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) is one the most famous universities in world, and its history witnessed development higher education. The unique management mode educational philosophy have played an important role success story given a strong boost to become world-class universities. This paper explores successful experience IIT, which can be summarized following three aspects. Firstly, hi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and blood glucose (BG) variability in brain-injured patients and their association with clinical outcomes. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of brain-injured patients admitted to an 11-bed neurosciences intensive care unit (ICU) from January 1 to December 31, 2003. RESULTS We included 606 patients. Mean age was 52.3 years, ...

We continue here the analysis of the previous paper of the Wheeler-DeWitt constraint operator for four-dimensional, Lorentzian, non-perturbative, canon-ical vacuum quantum gravity in the continuum. In this paper we derive the complete kernel, as well as a physical inner product on it, for a non-symmetric version of the Wheeler-DeWitt operator. We then deene a symmetric version of the Wheeler-De...

Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) for hyperglycemia in critically ill patients has become a standard practice. Target levels for glycemia have fluctuated since 2000, as evidence initially indicated that tight glycemic control to so-called normoglycemia (80-110 mg/dl) leads to the lowest morbidity and mortality without hypoglycemic complications. Subsequent studies have demonstrated minimal clinic...

Barrett [1] makes three observations relevant to IIT 3.0 as discussed by Tononi & Koch [2]. Firstly, for many systems, F—as outlined in IIT 3.0—may not be computable as it may never be practical to carry out all possible discrete grainings in space, time and relevant functional elements and maximize over these. Of course, as Barrett himself points out, the fact that something may not be computa...

1 Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (ICMS), Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and University of Seville, Seville, Spain, 2 Smart Materials, Nanophysics, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy, 3 Drug Discovery and Development Department, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy, 4 Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea...