Patients with liver cirrhosis can develop hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy (HE), accompanied by pronounced daytime sleepiness.Previous studies with healthy volunteers show that experimental increase in blood ammonium levels increases sleepiness and slows the waking electroencephalogram.As ammonium increases adenosine levels in vitro, and a
As intelligent driving vehicles came out of concept into people’s life, the combination of safe driving and artificial intelligence becomes the new direction of future transportation development.Autonomous driving technology is developing based on control algorithms and model recognitions.In this paper, a cloud-based interconnected multi-sen
Introduction: Literature on multi-disciplinary healthcare team interventions to improve quality and safety of care in acute hospital contexts tends to Oxygen Therapy focus on evaluating the success of the intervention by assessing patient outcomes.In contrast, there is little focus on the team who delivered the intervention, how the team worked to
We explore the thesis that stochasticity in successional-disturbance systems can be an agent of species extinction.The analysis uses a simple model of patch dynamics for seral stages in an idealized landscape; each seral stage is assumed to support a specialist biota.The landscape as a whole is characterized by a mean patch birth rate, mean patch s
The conservation status of relic melanistic lizard species occurring in the Saldanha- Langebaan area has been investigated.A contact zone between one melanistic form and a closely related non-melanistic form has been examined in detail.Apart from melanis- tic populations of the girdled lizards, Cordylus niger and C.polywnus, a melanistic morphotype