We set out to review the recent incidence of extravasation and compartment syndrome in children with meningococcal disease admitted to our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) who had been resuscitated with intraosseous (IO) needles. Over a 12-month period, 18 children were admitted to PICU with meningococcal sepsis. Four of these children were resuscitated with IO needles and 2 developed seri...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the phonological development of toddlers from 2 to 3 years of age with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) treated during the first year of life with and without infant orthopedics (IO). DESIGN In a randomized clinical trial (Dutchcleft), two groups of children were followed up: one treated with IO (IO group) and another that did not receive IO (non-IO gro...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to develop a bifunctional iron oxide (IO) nanoparticle probe for PET and MRI scans of tumor integrin alphavbeta3 expression. METHODS Polyaspartic acid (PASP)-coated IO (PASP-IO) nanoparticles were synthesized using a coprecipitation method, and particle size and magnetic properties were measured. A phantom study was used to assess the efficacy of PASP-...

My research concentrates on e cient implementation of parallel le systems. Its main focus are MPI-IO systems for distributed memorymultiprocessors. The target platform for the developed code is the NEC Cenju-3 supercomputer, however the sources are directly portable to any homogeneous MPP running the Mach 3.0 microkernel. An important feature of my implementation is that I/O nodes of the underl...

Abstract The Jovian system is very intriguing with extremely different particle sources. As the dominant source of particles to Jupiter's magnetosphere, Io particular importance. JAXA Hisaki (SPRINT‐A) mission providing insightful observations regard Io. In particular, its UV neutral oxygen line sight provide best glimpse so far populations. This exciting in that for first time, tori can be dir...

AIM To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of IO-SE in comparison to IO-CEUS for the differentiation between malignant and benign liver lesions. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a retrospective diagnostic study IO-CEUS and SE examinations of 49 liver lesions were evaluated and compared to histopathological examinations. Ultrasound was performed using a multifrequency linear probe (6-9 MHz). The loops of ...

The presence of outliers in time series can seriously affect the model specification and parameter estimation. To avoid these adverse effects, it is essential to detect these outliers and remove them from time series. By the Bayesian statistical theory, this article proposes a method for simultaneously detecting the additive outlier (AO) and innovative outlier (IO) in an autoregressive moving-a...

in critically ill infants and children, intravascular (iv) access is sometimes very difficult. in such cases intraosseous (io) infusion should be used as the method of choice. however, in practice, different problems are experienced with this procedure. to overcome the practical problems and to confirm the efficacy of io infusion in reversing hypovolemic shock, an animal model was used by emplo...

Many companies make use of the standard business software SAP R/3 to carry out their business processes. High response times while processing transactions in an R/3 system and, as a result, a lack of service quality or a poor system availability may have serious consequences for the companies, so that e. g. products cannot be finished in time. Such performance bottlenecks are partly due to a gr...

Parallel I/O needs to keep pace with the everincreasing computing power of high performance computers for the real world applications to perform well. Exploiting high-end interconnect technologies such as Quadrics to reduce the network access cost and scale the aggregated bandwidth is one of the ways to increase the performance of storage systems. In this paper, we explore the challenges of sup...