Abstract Background Emergency laparotomy (EL) is associated with a high 30-day-mortality (30-dm) risk. More than 22,000 EL are performed annually in the UK, half of patients being ≥70 years. To improve patient outcomes, reliable preoperative risk assessment paramount importance. 30-dm can be assessed by multitude tools, including National-Emergency-Laparotomy-Audit prediction tool (NELA-RPT). N...

Abstract The large surface area of bunker silos imposes challenges with heating caused by plant respiration during initial ensiling. This study aimed to explore if application a formic- and propionic acid-based additive would improve grass silage quality, reduce losses, increase aerobic stability in silos. At each three harvests, every second tractor load was filled either untreated or acid tre...

RNA helicases are molecular motors that are involved in virtually all aspects of RNA metabolism. Eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF) 4A is the prototypical member of the DEAD-box family of RNA helicases. It is thought to use energy from ATP hydrolysis to unwind mRNA structure and, in conjunction with other translation factors, it prepares mRNA templates for ribosome recruitment during translatio...

Recent technology has made it possible to simultaneously perform multi-platform genomic profiling (e.g. DNA methylation (DM) and gene expression (GE)) of biological samples, resulting in so-called 'multi-dimensional genomic data'. Such data provide unique opportunities to study the coordination between regulatory mechanisms on multiple levels. However, integrative analysis of multi-dimensional ...

Background: A number of former studies have shown that tuberculosis (TB) is higher in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients than non-diabetics. Both DM and TB are major public health problems in Iran, and because of the lack of investigation in this field in the region, we conducted this study to evaluate the prevalence of DM in admitted pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Methods: The medical files of...

20.1 Fundamentals of Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 20.1.1 What Are the Traffic Measurement Problems? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 20.1.2 Traffic Matrix Measurement . . . . . . . . . . 385 20.1.3 Traffic VolumeMeasurement . . . . . . . . . 385 20.1.4 Traffic Dynamics Measurement . . . . . . . 385 20.1.5 Traffic Mixture ...

We report the detection of CN, HCN, HNC, CS, HCO+, C2H and H2CO (ortho and para) in the protoplanetary disks of DM Tau and GG Tau. For the first time organic molecules are observed in objects representative of the presolar nebula. These molecules are underabundant with respect to the standard dense clouds. The depletions in the “outer” disk of DM Tau (100 < r < 900 AU), derived from the line in...