Medication Complications in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

The need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy is a marker of disease severity for which multiple medications are required. The therapy causes physiologic changes that impact drug pharmacokinetics. These changes can lead to exposure-driven decreases in efficacy or increased incidence of side effects. The pharmacokinetic changes are drug specific and largely undefined for most drugs. We review available drug dosing data and provide guidance for use in the ECMO patient population

The ππ\pi\pi Final State Interaction in K→ππK\to\pi\pi, pp→ppππpp\to pp\pi\pi and Related Processes

Final state interactions in the $S$--wave $\pi\pi$ system (I=0,2) are re-examined on the basis of the Omn\`es-Mus\-khe\-li\-shvili equation and the coupled channel formalism. The contributions to the pion scalar form factor from $\rho$ and $f_2(1270)$ exchange in the $t$--channel and from the $f_0(980)$ $s$--channel resonance are separately evaluated and the role of the nontrivial polynomial in the Omn\`es function in a coupled channel situation is elucidated. Applications are made to $K\to \pi\pi$ and $pp\to pp\pi\pi$. It is found that the contribution from the $f_0$ resonance to the form-factor is strongly reduced by a nearby zero.Comment: PACS numbers: 13.75.Lb, 13.25.Es, 13.25.+m, 15 pages in plain latex with epsf.sty, 10 figure

Networks of communities and evolution of cooperation

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Principal Elements of the Ottoman State-Formation Process through an Eliasian Perspective

WOS: 00034314080000

Shari‘a Courts in the Ottoman Empire Before the Tanzimat

International audienceThis article describes the history, features and functions of the Islamic law courts in the Ottoman Empire before the Tanzimat era. After briefly surveying of the roots of this institution in pre-Ottoman settings, the article focusses on how Ottoman administrators and juridical experts built on this legacy. Later, the article discusses the modern scholarly literature on the court in a way to reflect on its prevalent tendencies