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Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is a salvage procedure in which extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is initiated emergently on patients who have had cardiac arrest (CA) and on whom the conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR) has failed. Awareness and usage of ECPR are increasing all over the world. Significant advancements have taken place in the ECPR initiation techniques, in its device and in its post-procedure care. ECPR is a team work requiring multidisciplinary experts, highly skilled health care workers and adequate infrastructure with appropriate devices. Perfect coordination and communication among team members play a vital role in the outcome of the ECPR patients. Ethical, legal and financial issues need to be considered before initiation of ECPR and while withdrawing the support when the ECPR is futile. Numerous studies about ECPR are being published more frequently in the last few years. Hence, keeping updated about the ECPR is very important for proper selection of cases and its management. This article reviews various aspects of ECPR and relevant literature to date.Quantification of hazard-induced losses plays a significant role in risk assessment and management of civil infrastructure subjected to hazards in a life-cycle context. A rational approach to assess long-term loss is of vital importance. selleck inhibitor The loss assessment associated with stationary hazard models and low-order moments (i.e., expectation and variance) has been widely investigated in previous studies. This paper proposes a novel approach for the higher-order analysis of long-term loss under both stationary and nonstationary hazards. An analytical approach based on the moment generating function is developed to assess the first four statistical moments of long-term loss under different stochastic models (e.g., homogeneous Poisson process, non-homogeneous Poisson process, renewal process). Based on the law of total expectation, the developed approach expands the application scope of the moment generating function to nonstationary models and higher-order moments (i.e., skewness and kurtosis). Furthermore, by employing the convolution technique, the proposed approach effectively addresses the difficulty of assessing higher-order moments in a renewal process. Besides the loss analysis, the mixed Poisson process, a relatively new stochastic model, is introduced to consider uncertainty springing from the stochastic occurrence rate. Two illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate practical implementations of the developed approach. Ultimately, the proposed framework could aid the decision-maker to select the optimal option by incorporating higher-order moments of long-term loss within the decision-making process.This study explored the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on domestic violence (DV) with the following research questions 1) Did DV occurring during the pandemic differ on certain variables from cases occurring on a typical day the previous year? 2) Did DV occurring after the implementation of shelter-in-place orders differ (on these same variables) from cases occurring prior to shelter-in-place orders? Two logistic regression models were developed to predict DV case differences before and during the pandemic. DV reports (N = 4618) were collected from the Chicago Police Department. Cases from March 2019 and March 2020 were analyzed based on multiple variables. One model was set to predict case differences since the pandemic began, and another model was set to predict case differences during the shelter-in-place period later that month. Both models were significant with multiple significant predictors. During the pandemic period, cases with arrests were 20% less likely to have occurred, and cases at residential locations were 22% more likely to have occurred. During the shelter-in-place period, cases at residential locations were 64% more likely to have occurred, and cases with child victims were 67% less likely to have occurred. This study offers a rapid analysis of DV case differences since the pandemic and shelter-in-place began. Additional variables and data sources could improve model explanatory power. Research, policy, and practice in this area must pivot to focus on protecting children whose access to mandated reporters has decreased and moving victims out of dangerous living situations into safe spaces.In the 1970s intimate partner violence became recognized as a major societal problem in Europe. The study of the processes that enable victims to emerge from this violence is still topical. Even more so when it concerns male victims, who remain an under-studied population. This article examines the processes involved in bringing an end to intimate partner violence, including female and male victims. This qualitative study examines the intra- and inter-subjective changes underlying the processes of ending IPV in victims by using a narrative approach. Semi-structured interviews including the use of qualitative life calendars were conducted with 21 victims, 18 women and 3 men. The thematic analysis highlighted eight stages of a process of getting out from intimate partner violence. From the change in perception to the post-separation, victims' trajectories contain similar stages nuanced by individual and environmental specificities for both female and male. Getting out from intimate partner violence involves a sequence of changes in the perception of self, partner, couple and violence that allows for cognitive and relational transitions.Ebeko is one of the most active volcanoes of the Kurile island arc, producing frequent mild Vulcanian explosions with eruption clouds up to 5 km high. The volcano poses a serious threat to the Severo-Kurilsk town with a population of around 2500 inhabitants, located at a distance of only 7 km on a fan of the volcano's laharic deposits. Here, we report an overview of the activity of the volcano in the 20th-21st centuries and the results of our geological and petrological investigations of the ongoing Vulcanian eruption that started in 2016. We have found that eruptions of Ebeko span a range of mechanisms from purely magmatic to phreatic/hydrothermal. Three of its historical eruptions (the 1934-1935, 1987-1991, and the 2016-ongoing) involved fresh magma, while during the others (1967-1971, 2009-2011) fresh magma was not erupted. Juvenile material of the ongoing eruption represents highly crystalline and highly viscous (more than 108 pa s) low-silica (56-58 wt% SiO2) andesite. Historical data and our observations of the ongoing eruption allowed us to suggest a functional model of the volcano where Vulcanian explosions are caused by shallow intrusions of small diapir-like batches of strongly crystallized and highly viscous andesitic magma ascending into water-saturated, hydrothermally altered rocks composing the volcano summit.