The Experts below are selected from a list of 54 Experts worldwide ranked by ideXlab platform

Mireille Turmine - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Andrew J E Seely - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Clinical review: A review and analysis of heart rate variability and the diagnosis and prognosis of infection
    Critical Care, 2009
    Co-Authors: Saif Ahmad, Anjali Tejuja, Kimberley D Newman, Ryan Zarychanski, Andrew J E Seely
    Abstract:

    Bacterial infection leading to organ failure is the most common cause of death in critically ill patients. Early diagnosis and expeditious treatment is a cornerstone of therapy. Evaluating the systemic host response to infection as a complex system provides novel insights: however, bedside application with clinical value remains wanting. Providing an integrative measure of an altered host response, the patterns and character of heart rate fluctuations measured over intervals-in-time may be analysed with a panel of mathematical techniques that quantify overall fluctuation, spectral Composition, Scale-free variation, and degree of irregularity or complexity. Using these techniques, heart rate variability (HRV) has been documented to be both altered in the presence of systemic infection, and correlated with its severity. In this review and analysis, we evaluate the use of HRV monitoring to provide early diagnosis of infection, document the prognostic implications of altered HRV in infection, identify current limitations, highlight future research challenges, and propose improvement strategies. Given existing evidence and potential for further technological advances, we believe that longitudinal, individualized, and comprehensive HRV monitoring in critically ill patients at risk for or with existing infection offers a means to harness the clinical potential of this bedside application of complex systems science.

Ibrahim Bou Malham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Rainer Schmidfetzer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • thermodynamics of li si and li si h phase diagrams applied to hydrogen absorption and li ion batteries
    Intermetallics, 2017
    Co-Authors: Songmao Liang, Franziska Taubert, Artem Kozlov, Jurgen Seidel, Florian Mertens, Rainer Schmidfetzer
    Abstract:

    Abstract A consistent thermodynamic description of the Li-Si system and its extension to the Li-Si-H system is developed based on comprehensive Calphad-type assessment of all pertinent thermodynamic and phase equilibrium data. Key experiments were performed by measuring the equilibrium pressure for the hydrogenation of the lithium silicides at 773 K, 748 K and 723 K. The Gibbs energy functions of the Li-Si compounds developed in this work are validated by direct comparison of the predicted hydrogen pressure with experimental data. The interrelation of the hydrogen absorption pressure with the calculated Li-Si-H ternary phase diagram is also elucidated. The calculated Li-Si phase diagram, both on chemical potential and Composition Scale, is well supported by the entity of experimental data. In addition to the stable intermetallics Li17Si4, Li16.42Si4 (Li4.11Si), Li13Si4, Li7Si3, Li12Si7, LiSi also metastable Li15Si4 and an approximate for amorphous Si(Li) is included in the thermodynamic modeling. Qualitative prediction of open-circuit voltage curves during metastable lithiation/delithiation of Si as advanced anode material for Li-ion batteries at room temperature is made.

Pierre Letellier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.