Background and Objective. Bronchoalveolar coagulopathy is a characteristic feature of pulmonary inflammation. We compared bronchoalveolar and systemic levels of coagulation in patients who did and patients who did not develop ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI). Methods. Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of lower tidal volumes versus conventional tid...

For patients with acute lung injury, positive pressure mechanical ventilation is life saving. However, considerable experimental and clinical data have demonstrated that how clinicians set the tidal volume, positive end-expiratory pressure, and plateau airway pressure influences lung injury severity and patient outcomes including mortality. In order to better identify ventilator-associated lung...

Increasing evidence supports the contribution of genetic influences on susceptibility/severity in acute lung injury (ALI), a devastating syndrome requiring mechanical ventilation with subsequent risk for ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI). To identify VALI candidate genes, we determined that Brown Norway (BN) and Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat strains were differentially sensitive to VALI (...

Usage of WiFi is becoming increasingly popular in public wireless LAN (WLAN) settings like malls, airports and train stations. Similarly to other prominent examples of WiFi usage like enterprise and home settings, publicWLANs could also benefit from an SDN-based coordinated management framework that deals with issues like interference and mobility management. However, unlike these settings, pub...

SCS Executive Committee John (Drew) Hamilton Jr., President Auburn University François Cellier, Past President University of Arizona Mohammad S. Obaidat, Senior Vice President Monmouth University David Cook, V.P., Conferences Aegis Technologies Group, Inc. Michael J. Chinni, V.P., Membership U.S. Army RDECOM ARDEC Bernard Zeigler, V.P., Publications University of Arizona William V. Tucker, V.P....

Cryptography is the science of secure computation and communication. The scope of cryptosystems, nowadays, ranges from private-key encryption and authentication to more complex systems such as publickey encryption, electronic voting, secure multi-party computation on large data sets, etc. My specialization is in foundations of cryptography, a field that aims at designing cryptographic protocols...

Success rate group search optimiser Mohammad Hasanzadeh, Sana Sadeghi, Alireza Rezvanian & Mohammad Reza Meybodi To cite this article: Mohammad Hasanzadeh, Sana Sadeghi, Alireza Rezvanian & Mohammad Reza Meybodi (2016) Success rate group search optimiser, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 28:1-2, 53-69, DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2014.971467 To link to this article: http...

Mohammad Reza Fakoorziba, Mohammad Assareh, Davood Keshavarzi, Aboozar Soltani, Mohammad Djafar Moemenbellah-Fard, Mohammad Zarenezhad Research Centre for Health Sciences, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Med...