Acute Lithium Intoxication and Factors Contributing to its Morbidity: a 10-Year Review

Background: Lithium has been commonly used for the treatment of several mood disorders particularly bipolar disorder in the last 60 years. This study aimed to analyze patients with lithium intoxication referred to Loghman- Hakim teaching hospital.Methods: This is a cross sectional study that has been done on 108 patients with lithium intoxication during 2001 to 2010. Necessary data were collected by checklists and then analyzed by statistical methods in SPSS version 20.Results: 39.8% of patients were male and most of them were in age group 20-40 years (47.2%). The rate of lithium use in 66.7% of patients was lower than 20 grams and the level of lithium in blood was 1 mEq/lit in 44.4% of patients. The rate of recovery has been significantly relation with BUN, creatinin, Intubation, pCO2 and pH. There was a significant relation between hospitalized with pH, pCO2, Na, absorbent materials, intubation and bicarbonate.Conclusion: Results showed that we should note to the rate and time of lithium used and also severity of signs in management and treatment of patients with the lithium toxicity

Compact, Robust Archetypes for Information Retrieval Systems

Abstract This paper reports an investigation on the status and the growth of cloud computing (CC) technology. It first provides some background knowledge on CC and its applications. It then reviews the concept of diffusion of innovation and the ways it can be modeled for cloud computing using proxy indicators. S curve model was assumed for prediction of the growth rate and behavior of CC adoption. Secondary data was used on some proxy indicators for adoption of CC due to the fact that the actual adoption figures are very small in number and not quite reliable. Two types of data were considered, the number of registered patents and the number of journal publications. The latter was obtained from two sources to ensure accuracy. The data was used to estimate the model parameters maximizing the coefficient of determination. The model identified the very likely pattern of behavior of growth of diffusion of CC. Both types of data confirmed the S-shaped behavior of the diffusion pattern and pointed to the same saturation time. Some conclusions were made on the basis of the findings indicating a positive sign for investment in this technology for some time

Ancient ruins of the future

The Herculea Telesina in the region of Campania is certainly not a fragment but an almost continuous defensive wall. The strong point of this particular project for siege defense being geometric criteria that have remained practically unchanged even when the weapons themselves evolved. The ruins offer a vast repertory of useful signs: the contemporary scholar can not only acquire the teachings of a culture that was much advanced compared to the Roman world, but by observing the angles and vectors can ponder the absence of any changes in the measurements that were subordinated to tactics and thus to human needs. Decisive factors that elevate the walls of Telesia to the level of a cultural testament still to be discovered