Background Accidental hypothermia, recognized by core temperature below 35 °C, is a lethal condition with a mortality rate up to 25%. Hypothermia-induced cardiac dysfunction causing increased total peripheral resistance and reduced cardiac output contributes to the high mortality rate in this patient group. Recent studies, in vivo and in vitro, have suggested levosimendan, milrinone and isoprenaline ...

Raman spectroscopy can give a chemical ’fingerprint’ from both inorganic and organic samples, and has become a viable method of measuring the chemical composition of single biological particles. In parallel, integration of waveguides and microfluidics allows for the creation of miniaturized optical sensors in lab-on-a-chip devices. The prospect of combining integrated optics and Raman spectroscopy ...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a classic and popularly used meta-heuristic algorithm in many reallife optimization problems due to its less computational complexity and simplicity. The binary version of PSO, known as BPSO, is used to solve binary optimization problems, such as feature selection. Like other meta-heuristic optimization techniques designed on the continuous search space, PSO ...

Objective: To evaluate adherence to 3 central operational recommendations for acute rehabilitation in the Norwegian trauma plan.<p> <p>Methods: A prospective multi-centre study of 538 adults with moderate and severe trauma with New Injury Severity Score >9. <p>Results: Adherence to the first recommendation, assessment by a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician within 72 h following ...

The present research investigated the relationship between self-respect (i.e., a person’s belief of possessing the same rights as others) and depressive symptoms. Based on earlier longitudinal findings that self-respect fosters assertiveness and that assertiveness negatively predicts depressive symptoms, we tested these relationships in Western and non-Western countries. Additionally, we explored ...

(1) Background: The current diagnostic algorithm for acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with the overuse of CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA). An additional highly specific blood test could potentially lower the proportion of patients with suspected PE that require CTPA. The aim was to summarize the literature on the diagnostic performance of biomarkers of patients admitted to an emergency ...

Hensikten med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan vellykkede gründere faktisk styrer virksomhetene sine. Søkelyset er satt på økonomistyringspraksisen. Studien er gjennomført blant gründere som ikke hadde økonomisk utdanning eller praksis da de startet virksomhetene. Denne målgruppen er interessant fordi den er representativ for svært mange gründere. Samtidig er det gjort lite forskning på dette ...

Interactive rendering technologies like maps, timelines, and plots can be powerful tools for data visualization and exploration. In the context of media, such tools are often referred to as lean-forward, implying that the user is actively telling his own story by using control primitives such as skip, pan, tilt, adjust, scroll, rewind, reorder, zoom, play and more. We are interested in using such ...

Kubernetes default configurations do not always provide optimal security and performance for all clusters and IoT edge devices deployed, affecting the scalability of a given workload and making them vulnerable to security breaches and information leakage if misconfigured. We present an adaptive controller to identify the type of misconfiguration and its consequence threat to optimize the system ...

nternational commitments to preserve global biodiversity target the protection of 30% of marine habitats by 2030. The lack of even basic knowledge of many marine areas (e.g., deep oceans) combined with short timelines require integrative knowledge and multidisciplinary techniques to be used to efficiently identify areas worthy of protection. Here we outline a case study of the discovery of the ...