Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness in Patients With Acute Kidney Injury: A Contemporary Review.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) and intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) are 2 frequent complications of critical illness that, until recently, have been considered unrelated processes. The adverse impact of AKI on ICU mortality is clear, but its relationship with muscle weakness-a major source of ICU morbidity-has not been fully elucidated. Furthermore, improving ICU survival rates have refocused the field of intensive care toward improving long-term functional outcomes of ICU survivors.

Free-Will Arbitrary Time Consensus for Multiagent Systems.

In this article, the free-will arbitrary time consensus is formulated for multiagent systems. This consensus protocol is independent of initial conditions and any other system parameters. With such a protocol, the multiagent system is shown to attain consensus as well as average consensus within the prespecified arbitrary time.

A Self-Referenced Diffraction-Based Optical Leaky Waveguide Biosensor Using Photofunctionalised Hydrogels.

We report a novel self-referenced diffraction-based leaky waveguide (LW) comprising a thin (~2 µm) film of a photofunctionalisable hydrogel created by covalent attachment of a biotinylated photocleavable linker to chitosan. Streptavidin attached to the chitosan via the photocleavable linker was selectively removed by shining 365 nm light through a photomask to create an array of strips with high and low loading of the protein, which served as sensor and reference regions respectively. The differential measurements between sensor and reference regions were used for measuring analytes (i.

Study and Comparison of Metabolic Profile of Lean and Obese Subjects with Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Background And Objective: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is conventionally considered to be a disease of obese subjects. Recent data suggests increasing incidence of NAFLD among lean subjects also. The aim of this study was to evaluate the metabolic profile of lean subjects with NAFLD and compare it with obese subjects with NAFLD.

The Outcome of Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Single-Center Experience.

Background: Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumor is an extremely rare entity. Only case reports are available in the literature. The aim of the study was to analyze the symptoms, diagnosis, management, and the outcome of patients with primary liver neuroendocrine tumors.

Parathyroid Cancer Causing Acute Severe Pancreatitis.

Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare disease and accounts for less than 1% of all cases of primary hyperparathyroidism. Many times, parathyroid carcinoma is detected only after surgery. Parathyroid carcinoma as a cause of acute pancreatitis is uncommon.

Multi-angle ZnO microstructures grown on Ag nanorods array for plasmon-enhanced near-UV-blue light emitter.

Metal enhanced ultraviolet light emission has been explored in ZnO/Ag hybrid structures prepared by hydrothermal growth of multi-angled ZnO nanorods on slanted Ag nanorods array fabricated by the thermal evaporation technique. Slanted Ag nanorods are realized to be the stacking of non-spherical Ag nanoparticles, resulting in asymmetric surface plasmon resonance spectra. The surface roughness of Ag nanorod array films significantly influences the growth mechanism of ZnO nanorods, leading to the formation of multi-angled ZnO microflowers.