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Dose of colistin. a work in progress?
We thank Rashid and colleagues [1] and Honoré and colleagues [2] for their comments regarding our article on risk factors for acute kidney injury in pa- tients receiving colistin or other nephrotoxic antimi- crobials [3].
It is correct that we did not specifically report urine output in the text, but it was obviously included in the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss of kidney function, and End-stage kidney disease) criteria reported in Table two [3]
Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric dysbiosis: Can probiotics administration be useful to treat this condition?
Helicobacter pylori (Hp) is responsible for one of the most common infections in the world. 'e prevalence exceeds 50% of the
population in developing countries, and approximately one-third of the adults are colonized in North Europe and North America.
It is considered a major pathogenic agent of chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, atrophic gastritis, gastric cancer, and mucosa-associated
lymphoid tissue lymphoma (MALT). Hp colonization modifies the composition of gastric microbiota that could drive the
development of gastric disorders. Currently, an emerging problem in Hp treatment is represented by the increasing rate of
antimicrobial therapy resistance. In this context, the search for adjuvant agents can be very useful to overcome this issue and
probiotics administration can represent a valid option. The aim of this review is to describe the gastric microbiota changes during
Hp colonization, the mechanisms of action, and a possible role of probiotics in the treatment of this infection
Indian nurses in Italy: a qualitative study of their professional and social integration
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
To investigate the lived subjective experiences of immigrant Indian nurses in Italy and specifically their professional and social integration.
BACKGROUND:
To study the worldwide, nursing flux is a health priority in the globalised world. The growth in migration trends among nurses, not only from Philippines or India, has proliferated in recent years. The research on nurses' mobility for Southern European countries is underexplored, and in Italy, the out-migration flows of Indian nurses were never analysed.
DESIGN:
Qualitative methodological approach.
METHODS:
Semi-structured interviews (n = 20) were completed with Indian clinical nurses working in Italy for more than one year mainly in private organisations. A purposive sampling technique was used for recruitment. The data were then content-analysed using an inductive method.
RESULTS:
The findings were categorised into four themes: (1) aspects of professional integration and working experience, (2) intra- and interprofessional relationships and perceptions of the IPASVI Regulatory Nursing Board, (3) initial nursing education and continuous professional development and (4) perceptions of social integration.
CONCLUSION:
The results show that for Indian nurses in Italy emigration is important to gain opportunities to expand economic and social privileges as well as escape from historical assumptions of stigma associated with nursing work, especially for women. However, these conclusions have to be seen in wider socio-cultural complexities that are at the basis of transnational fluxes (Prescott & Nichter ).
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE:
The research offers an insight into the complicated reasons for Indian nurses out-migration to Italy. Without comprehending the interwoven textures of the political and social relations that are continually constructed and re-constructed among different nations, it is difficult to understand nurses out-migration and consequently have a better and safer collaborative teamwork in the host countries
Nonadditivity of intermolecular forces - Effects on the third virial coefficient
Effects of nonadditive three body forces on third virial coefficien
The role of spanwise forcing on vortex shedding suppression in a flow past a cylinder
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.Controlling the wake vortex dynamics of bluff bodies efficiently is a fundamental problem in many applications. Earlier direct numerical simulations (Darekar and Sherwin) of three-dimensional bluff bodies demonstrated that the introduction of a spanwise waviness at both the leading and trailing surfaces suppresses the vortex shedding and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuating aerodynamic forces. Under this motivation, starting from a fully developed shedding, a sufficiently high spanwise forcing is introduced on the surface of the cylinder, in the regions where separation effects occur, resulting in the stabilisation of the near wake in a timeindependent state, similar to the effect of a sinusoidal stagnation surface. Stability analysis of the linearised Navier-Stokes equations was then performed on the threedimensional flows to investigate the role of the spanwise modulation on the absolute instability associated with the von Kármán street
The diffusion coefficient of propagating fronts with multiplicative noise
Recent studies have shown that in the presence of noise both fronts
propagating into a metastable state and so-called pushed fronts propagating
into an unstable state, exhibit diffusive wandering about the average position.
In this paper we derive an expression for the effective diffusion coefficient
of such fronts, which was motivated before on the basis of a multiple scale
ansatz. Our systematic derivation is based on the decomposition of the
fluctuating front into a suitably positioned average profile plus fluctuating
eigenmodes of the stability operator. While the fluctuations of the front
position in this particular decomposition are a Wiener process on all time
scales, the fluctuations about the time averaged front profile relax
exponentially.Comment: 4 page
Linear Toric Fibrations
These notes are based on three lectures given at the 2013 CIME/CIRM summer
school. The purpose of this series of lectures is to introduce the notion of a
toric fibration and to give its geometrical and combinatorial
characterizations. Polarized toric varieties which are birationally equivalent
to projective toric bundles are associated to a class of polytopes called
Cayley polytopes. Their geometry and combinatorics have a fruitful interplay
leading to fundamental insight in both directions. These notes will illustrate
geometrical phenomena, in algebraic geometry and neighboring fields, which are
characterized by a Cayley structure. Examples are projective duality of toric
varieties and polyhedral adjunction theory
ETHNIC DISPLACEMENT IN THE INTERSTITIAL COMMUNITY: THE EAST HARLEM (NEW YORK CITY) EXPERIENCE
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Response to. comment on optic nerve sheath diameter ultrasound evaluation in intensive care unit: possible role and clinical aspects in neurological critical patients' daily monitoring
Comment on "Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter Ultrasound Evaluation in Intensive Care Unit: Possible Role and Clinical Aspects in Neurological Critical Patients' Daily Monitoring"
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