OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between adequacy of energy intake and intensive care unit mortality in patients receiving exclusive enteral nutrition therapy. METHODS Observational and prospective study conducted during 2008 and 2009. Patients above 18 years with exclusive enteral nutrition therapy for at least 72 hours were included. The adequacy of energy intake was estimated by t...

In this paper we consider nonhomogeneous birth and death processes (BDP) with periodic rates. Two important parameters are studied, which are helpful to describe a nonhomogeneous BDP X = X (t), t ≥ 0: the limiting mean value (namely, the mean length of the queue at a given time t) and the double mean (i.e. the mean length of the queue for the whole duration of the BDP). We find conditions of ex...

Spurred by an experimental controversy in the literature, we investigate the end-monomer dynamics of semiflexible polymers through Brownian hydrodynamic simulations and dynamic mean-field theory. Precise experimental observations over the last few years of end-monomer dynamics in the diffusion of double-stranded DNA have given conflicting results: one study indicated an unexpected Rouse-like sc...

We examine the role of a silicon-based amorphous insulating substrate in thermal relaxation thin $\mathrm{Nb}\mathrm{N}$, ${\mathrm{In}\mathrm{O}}_{x}$, and $\mathrm{Au}$/$\mathrm{Ni}$ films at temperatures above 5 K. The samples studied consist metal bridges on an layer lying or suspended crystalline substrate. Noise thermometry is used to measure electron temperature ${T}_{e}$ as function Jou...

RmI, a circular chimera made of the polyomavirus (Py) genome with an insertion of mouse DNA (Ins), effectively undergoes intramolecular recombination in normal mouse cells, as indicated by the conversion of cloned RmI (RmIc) into unit-length Py DNA in transfected cultures. To follow the fate of the cellular component of RmI after recombination, the origin of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA was inser...

We study the structure of a $3-$Leibniz algebra $T$ graded by an arbitrary abelian group $G,$ which is considered dimension and over base field $\bbbf.$ show that form $T=\uu\oplus\sum_jI_j,$ with $\uu$ linear subspace $T_1,$ homogeneous component associated to unit element $1$ in any $I_j$ well described ideal $T,$ satisfying $$ [I_j, T, I_k] = I_k, T] [T, I_j, 0, if $j\neq k.$ In case being m...

PURPOSE This research was conducted to develop a clinical tool-the Index of Narrative Microstructure (INMIS)-that would parsimoniously account for important microstructural aspects of narrative production for school-age children. The study provides field test age- and grade-based INMIS values to aid clinicians in making normative judgments about microstructural aspects of pupils' narrative perf...

This study analyzes an integrated inventory control and transportation planning problem with carbon emissions regulations. We investigate the economic order quantity model with less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload (TL) transportation under carbon cap, cap and trade, cap and offset, and taxing policies. We find the retailer’s optimal order quantity under each regulation with LTL and TL carrie...

A retrospective review of hospital records for Acinetobacter baumannii infection at a US Army combat support hospital revealed a monthly infection rate ranging from 20.5 to 0 cases per 1,000 patients admitted. The rate correlated with the mean census of host-nation patients in the intensive care unit, the mean census of host-nation patients on the wards, and length of stay in the intensive care...