Delirium – defined as an acute, fluctuating change in mental status, with inattention and an altered level of consciousness – occurs in the majority of patients in the ICU.
Applying DSM-IV criteria for delirium, the mouse model demonstrated an acute onset, fluctuating, change in cognition not better accounted for by dementia, induced by LPS (a reasonable mimic of a general medical condition effecting physiological disturbance).
Delirium, characterised by an acute onset of fluctuating changes in mental status and changed levels of consciousness and inattentiveness, 1 has a high incidence rate in critically ill patients.
Delirium is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome characterised by acute onset of disturbance of consciousness and fluctuating changes in cognition, attention and perceptual disturbance [ 1].
And since musicals are constantly being rewritten during rehearsals to accommodate the singers as well as the fluctuating changes in text, it becomes impossible.
By contrast, the sensitivity result of crisp TOPSIS has shown fluctuating changes in the maintenance strategy rankings.
Careful monitoring and assessment of land use variations with different temporal and spatial scales would reveal a fluctuating interface, punctuated by changes in rainfall and runoff, movement of people, perturbation from environmental disasters, and shifts in agricultural activities and cropping patterns.
On the one hand, species living in such a fluctuating medium might experience abrupt changes of relatively short duration due to certain external effects.
On the whole, Shandong has the largest emissions in absolute terms, followed by Hebei, Liaoning, Tianjin and Beijing during this period, while all sectors' CO2 emissions changes show a fluctuating trend.
It has been proposed by Huysman et al. 2010 [ 36] that dsCYCs may act as signal integrators for a fluctuating environment (e. g., changes in light intensity, temperature, and nutrient availability).
