Relationship between fluid bolus administration and the prognostic role of serum albumin in patients with sepsis.

Background: Serum albumin plays a pivotal role in the exchange between interstitial and vascular compartments, and reduced levels of this biomarker appear to be associated with negative prognosis in septic patients. The correlation between the volume effect in sepsis therapy and the kinetics of serum albumin is unclear.

Aim: To investigate the relationship between serum albumin and fluid bolus in relation to its prognostic role in septic patients.

Challenges and peculiarities of nursing activities in intermediate care units compared with internal medicine wards: A prospective study.

Background: Intermediate Care Units (IMCs) are specialized facilities located within other departments in many Western countries. They are designed to manage patients with conditions that are not severe enough to require an intensive care unit. IMCs aim to fill the gap between regular wards and intensive care units, necessitating an adequate allocation of nursing resources.

Taxonomic revision of fleshy species of , and (Thelephorales) from Australasia.

Stipitate Thelephorales are basidiomycetous, mostly hydnoid, ectomycorrhizal fungi. Some species have declined considerably, and some are threat-listed as vulnerable or endangered. These ecological concerns require a well-resolved taxonomy to understand diversity in this group of fungi and facilitate conservation.

Two-Field Excitation for Contactless Inductive Flow Tomography.

Contactless inductive flow tomography (CIFT) is a flow measurement technique allowing for visualization of the global flow in electrically conducting fluids. The method is based on the principle of induction by motion: very weak induced magnetic fields arise from the fluid motion under the influence of a primary excitation magnetic field and can be measured precisely outside of the fluid volume. The structure of the causative flow field can be reconstructed from the induced magnetic field values by solving the according linear inverse problem using appropriate regularization methods.

Dynamo action driven by precessional turbulence.

We reveal and analyze an efficient magnetic dynamo action due to precession-driven hydrodynamic turbulence in the local model of a precessional flow, focusing on the kinematic stage of this dynamo. The growth rate of the magnetic field monotonically increases with the Poincaré number Po, characterizing precession strength, and the magnetic Prandtl number Pm, equal to the ratio of viscosity to resistivity, for the considered ranges of these parameters. The critical Po_{c} for the dynamo onset decreases with increasing Pm.