The purpose of this review was to evaluate mortality rates of open abdomen patients with severe peritonitis who received negative pressure therapy (NPT) versus open packing techniques as a method of temporary abdominal closure (TAC). Authors retrospectively reviewed consecutive records from five different surgical departments of patients who received NPT (V.A.C. technology) and open packing (OP...

Introduction As one of leading core technology in the 21th century, nano photonic technology (NPT) is highly interdisciplinary, involving physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and the full range of the engineering disciplines (Picraux, 2014). NPT is a study of the interaction of electrons and photons and its components in nano structure based on the great development and popularizatio...

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Often there is no well drilling without problems. The solution lies in managing and evaluating these problems developing strategies to manage scale them. Non-productive time (NPT) one of the main causes delayed operations. Many events or possibilities can lead a halt operations marginal decrease advancement drilling, this called (NPT). Reducing NPT has an important impact on total expenditure, ...

Neuroplasticity (NPL), neuromodulation (NM), and neuroprotection (NPT) are ongoing biophysiological processes that are linked together in sensory systems, the goal being the maintenance of a homeostasis of normal sensory function in the central nervous system. It is hypothesized that when the balance between excitatory - inhibitory action is broken in sensory systems, predominantly due to neuro...

Non-pneumatic tires (NPTs) have been widely used for their advantages of no run-flat, need air maintenance, and unique stiffness characteristics. This study focuses on the design a spoke Fibonacci spiral non-pneumatic tire (FS-NPT) based its properties three-dimensional stiffness. Finite element (FE) models, parametric studies, designs experiments (DOEs), sensitivity analyses are conducted to e...

Asthma is a condition characterised by a chronic immunoinflammatory response to different triggers. Neopterin (NPT) is synthesised by human macrophages upon stimulation with interferon-gamma and is also capable of enhancing the oxidative potential of reactive oxygen species. NPT is useful for the monitoring of cell-mediated (Th1-type) immune activation. This study analysed the behaviour of NPT ...

We prove the existence of bound entangled states with negative partial transpose (NPT) in any d×d(d ≥ 3) Hilbert space with simple assumptions on Schmidt rank two states. We have assumed that the Schmidt rank two states should satisfy some bounds. Obviously the class of NPT bound entangled states belong to the class of conjectured to be bound entangled states by Divincenzo et.al [Phys. Rev. A, ...