Prothrombin time (PT) is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a measure of the amount of time that it takes for your blood to produce a thrombus or a blood clot. So why might this be important? Well, blood clots close exposed vessels by forming a scab on your skin. Simply put, ...
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A training packet to measure PTSR is sent every 100 milliseconds. From experimental results, we can infer that PTSR decreases as [eta] increases. The weights are adapted to the direction in which the mean error between target PTSRs and estimated PTSRs of RNs is minimized. Development of link...
To overcome this problem, metal-supported tethered BLMs (tBLMs) have been devised, where the BLM is anchored to the metal via a hydrophilic spacer that replaces and mimics the water phase on the metal side. However, only mercury-supported tBLMs can measure and regulate the flow of the ...
Wiedmann [8] built a multi-regional input-output model to measure the trade energy footprint of the United Kingdom in 2002. It demonstrated that the energy footprint of imports was greater than that of exports. Since the reform and opening-up in China, energy consumption has increased ...
Approximately 6 PTUI visits occurred between each urinary status measurement. Data revealed variation in the type of insurance coverage as PTUI patients proceeded from the T1 urinary status measure observation through subsequent urinary status measurements (see Table 3). The FOTO dataset provided real-...
Next, a quantitative comparison of the use of the rulePLPC(nearest to farthest to the way point position start position) and taboo search met heuristic to solve the routing problem TSP minimum distance is performed in order, to measure the indicators efficiency of each one of the strategies in...
Both depend on given conditions or factors such as air and radiant temperature, clothing and metabolic rates. These parameters along with human perception in buildings are difficult to obtain. For example, they require expensive instruments to accurately measure [9]. The Fanger model proposes two ...
First, the MVO during clockwise recoil is caused by the wrap—initiating when LV negative dP/pt starts, rather than when a LV pressure falls below left atrial pressure. Second, the entire ventricle does not relax—ongoing strain measurements and sonomicrometer crystal recordings confirm outer ...