PURPOSE A medical center's implementation of adult and pediatric parenteral nutrition (PN) algorithms and other strategies for managing PN ingredient shortages are described. SUMMARY In response to nationwide shortages of amino acids and other PN ingredients in 2010, a large Massachusetts teaching hospital undertook a quality-improvement initiative to ensure appropriate patient selection for ...

<p><span lang="EN-US">Kasus infeksi oleh bakteri menjadi sepuluh besar kasus yang mengakibatkan kematian di Indonesia dengan persentase 9,5 %. Penggunaan antibiotik tidak tepat untuk mengatasi masalah dapat menyebabkan resistensi antibakteri. Untuk hal tersebut, banyak dilakukan pengembangan terhadap agen-agen Banyak penelitian menunjukkan bahwa aktivitas antibakteri ditemukan pada ...

Let wλ(t) := (1− t2)λ−1/2, where λ > − 12 , be the Gegenbauer weight function, let ‖ · ‖wλ be the associated L2-norm, ‖f‖wλ = {∫ 1 −1 |f(x)|wλ(x) dx }1/2 , and denote by Pn the space of algebraic polynomials of degree≤ n. We study the best constant cn(λ) in the Markov inequality in this norm ‖pn‖wλ ≤ cn(λ)‖pn‖wλ , pn ∈ Pn , namely the constant cn(λ) := sup pn∈Pn ‖pn‖wλ ‖pn‖wλ . We derive explic...

This paper presents a new technique to convert a coarse polygonal geometric model into a smooth surface interpolating the mesh vertices, by improving the principle proposed by Vlachos et al. in their "Curved PN-Triangles". The key idea is to assign to each mesh vertex, a set of three scalar tags that act as shape controllers. These scalar tags (called sharpness, bias, and tension) are used to c...

A Personal Node (PN) is a small, wallet-sized device that integrates people into the Internet. A PN incorporates wireless communication, limited user I/O, and local environmental telemetry to catalyze the coordination of other smart space and network devices for the user's benefit. By themselves smart spaces are not aware of the people in them and people are not be aware of what is in a smart s...

This paper analyzes boosting in unscaled versions of ROC spaces, also referred to as PN spaces. A minor revision to AdaBoost’s reweighting strategy is analyzed, which allows to reformulate it in terms of stratification, and to visualize the boosting process in nested PN spaces as known from divide-and-conquer rule learning. The analyzed confidence-rated algorithm is proven to take more advantag...

Petri Nets formalism requires standardisation to facilitate the work of researchers in this field and to enable the data exchange between different Petri Nets tools through a common format. Following this, a three-part International Standard (ISO/IEC 15909) has been developed. Part 1 is devoted to terms and definitions for Place/Transition Nets and High-Level Petri Nets. It is now completed (pu...

We introduce a modification to the standard spherical harmonic closure used with linear kinetic equations of particle transport. While the standard closure is known to produce negative particle concentrations, the modification corrects this defect by requiring that the ansatz used to the close the equations is itself a non-negative function. We impose this requirement via explicit constraints i...