10 research outputs found
Assessment of endotracheal tube intubation. Review of existing scales
Due to the complications associated with endotracheal intubation, contraindications should be assessed prior to initiating the procedure when possible. Several scales have been created to assess the ease of intubation. These intubation scales use numerous scoring systems combined with subjective assessments to provide a quantifiable suggestion for the patients difficulty of tracheal intubation. While there is no formal definition of what comprises a difficult intubation, some parameters include effort, number of attempts and complications. Some of the most common scales to assess this difficulty include the Mallampati score, the Cormack Lehane scale, the intubation difficulty scale, the level of difficulty of intubation, as well as the simplified airway risk index. There have been several other proposed methods as well that are less frequently used contributing to even less cohesion in the evaluation of airways
Modifications to the Properties of the Higgs Boson
We explore the impact of new SU(3)XSU(2)XU(1) invariant interactions
characterized by a scale of order a TeV on Higgs boson properties. The Higgs
production rate and branching ratios can be very different from their standard
model values. We also discuss the possibility that these new interactions
contribute to acceptable unification of the gauge couplings.Comment: Minor typos fixed. 8 pages, 5 figure
Reductions in prefrontal activation predict off-topic utterances during speech production
The ability to speak coherently is essential for effective communication, but little is known about the neural systems that support coherence. Here, the authors show that activity in two prefrontal cortex regions, BA10 and BA45, predicts the level of coherence in the speech of healthy older adults
Spelling Clubs and Competitions for Older Adults: Language Boosting Within a Social Context
Free-water metrics in medial temporal lobe white matter tract projections relate to longitudinal cognitive decline
Dynamic Changes In The Medial Temporal Lobe During Incidental Learning Of Object–Location Associations
Validity and Normative Data for the Biber Figure Learning Test: A Visual Supraspan Memory Measure
Higgs boson phenomenology in tau(+)tau(-) final states at the LHC
We perform a detailed parton level study on the feasibility of the detection
of a Higgs boson in the gluon fusion process at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The obtained results are
applied to a few chosen Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios where the
branching ratio of a Higgs boson decaying into a pair is
enhanced as compared to the Standard Model (SM) case. We present the parameter
space of the BSM scenarios that can be observed at the LHC and conclude that
some regions of the parameter space can be probed with just a few of
integrated luminosity. Noticeably, our results are presented in a form which
potentially allows their application to any generic model giving rise to a signature.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figure