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Elevated endostatin levels independently predicted 3-month mortality in acute dyspnoeapatients with CHF, but not 1-month mortality. Endostatin may aid intermediate-term risk stratification and warrants further validation.

Gal-3 appears clinically useful for ruling out short-term mortality in patients with acute dyspnea and could have role as a negative prognostic marker in the emergency department.

In computer graphics, there are numerous aspects that must be considered when rendering images of virtual scenes:What physical light-generating phenomena do we care about? How should object and material surfaces be described? And how should these be stored to ensure as fast and efficient image rendering as possible?As a part of this thesis, a method for rendering images of scenes lit by virtual at

This thesis introduces the field of biomedical or diffuse optics and covers basic principles of light propagation in highly scattering media. Physics is well supported by mathematical derivations and equations, which is essential for the development of analytical models. These models are applied to three main fields.First, in photodynamic therapy (PDT) — a promising approach, based on a dynamic in

"If on a winter’s night an architect" was presented as part of the launch of "AR(T)CH-RES: platform for artistic research in architecture" at Lund University, within a collective exhibition of artistic research in architecture.Developed through a workshop at the Milano International Design Studio (MInDS), the project takes its structure from Italo Calvino, where a sequence of interrupted narrative

Since Jean-Paul Sartre’s conception of le regard des autres in 1943, ‘the gaze’ has taken on many manifestations. The male gaze, the white gaze, the imperial gaze, the postcolonial gaze. All imply a power to objectify, to define an Other, usually from a distance or even, as Donna Haraway described objectivity, from 'nowhere.' Museums have always held the power to define Others while claiming objec

Although commercial aviation is a highly standardized and ultra-safe industry, there are still times when the flight crew are faced with an unexpected situation, and must respond appropriately. This article studies how to characterize variability in flight crew strategies handling unexpected events, problematic as well as successful. Hollnagel’s Extended Control Model (ECOM) is operationalized as

The hardware accelerated ray-tracing pipeline presents many opportunities to implement more advanced rendering algorithms than earlier rasterization based approaches. However, one particular aspect of the pipeline still remains a bit too costly to use in practice: The AnyHit-shader. Opacity Micromaps were introduced to alleviate this issue, but the central problem of calling arbitrary shader code

BACKGROUND: Sepsis-induced coagulopathy (SIC) is a scoring system developed for early detection of coagulopathy in sepsis and selection of patients for interventional studies. Our aim was to define the prevalence of SIC in a critically ill population and investigate if SIC at intensive care unit (ICU) admission is associated with morbidity and mortality.METHODS: Patients admitted with septic shock