Electrolyte abnormalities are an underrecognized cause of respiratory failure in the intensive care unit.One such abnormality is a relatively rare phenomenon of hypermagnesemia resulting in paralysis.A 73-year-old Caucasian male patient presented to the emergency department with diffuse abdominal pain of 2-day duration.He received magnesium citrate
Abstract Fault ruptures induced by earthquakes pose a significant threat to constructions, particularly underground structures such as pile foundations.Among various foundation types, batter pile foundations are widely used due to their ability to resist inclined forces.To gain new insights into the response of batter pile groups to fault ruptures
In developed countries, most of the population recognizes that they are facing environmental and social threats which are mainly related to global warming.The problem associated with an ecological footprint, particularly water shortage, ecosystems, climate change, deforestation, and declining biodiversity, is considered a harmful threat to human li
This paper describes a Sweat Pant general model that subsumes many parametric models for continuous data.The model comprises hidden layers of state-space or dynamic causal models, arranged so that the output of one provides input to another.The ensuing hierarchy furnishes a model for many types of data, of arbitrary complexity.Special cases range f