The object of this article was to systematically review available methods to measure comorbidity and to assess their validity and reliability. A search was made in Medline and Embase, with the keywords comorbidity and multi-morbidity, to identify articles in which a method to measure comorbidity was described. The references of these articles were also checked, and using a standardized checklis...

All patients with supraventricular tachycardia during the first 12 months of life who presented between 1977 and 1988 were identified by a retrospective survey of records in this hospital and by a questionnaire sent to paediatricians in the Northern region. Twenty two of 29 patients (76%) were in heart failure and seven (24%) had cardiogenic shock. Seven patients (24%) were free of symptoms. Al...

Textural quality of fish and shellfish is the most important factor because it limits consumer acceptance as well as market price. The muscle softening or mushiness of fish and shellfish during storage or distribution in ice is generally occurred. This phenomenon is considered as the muscle protein degradation due to the proteolytic activity. The presence of active proteases in muscle and diges...

When operating in cold climates, wind turbines are vulnerable to ice accretion. The main impact of icing on is the power losses due geometric deformation iced airfoils blades. Significant energy during farm lifetime must be estimated and mitigated. Finding solutions for calls several areas knowledge. Modelling simulation as an alternative experimental tests primary techniques used account accre...

Wind turbine icing has been the subject of intensive research over past two decades, primarily focusing on applying computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to 2D airfoil simulations for parametric analysis. As a result blades’ airfoils deformation caused by icing, wind turbines experience considerable decrease in aerodynamic performance resulting substantial loss productivity. Due phenomenon’s compl...

Urea clearance was determined on 25 healthy male medical students at Surabaja, Indonesia. The age of the subjects varied from 20 to 25 years, the average being 23 years. The subjects reported to the laboratory at 8 a.m., when they voided urine and then rapidly drank 500 m!. of iced water. At 9 a.m. they passed urine which was collected and measured, and 5 m!. of blood was withdrawn by vcnepuncl...

changes in proximate composition, colour and textural characteristics of ozone-processed shrimp as affected by combined effects of increasing ozone exposures and iced storage were investigated and for the first time. whilst proximate composition comprised of fat, moisture, and protein contents and colour comprised of l*, a*, b* and metric chroma (c), the texture comprised of adhesiveness, fract...