The EVLWI correlated moderately with a radiologic score for lung edema, the Halperin score, in non-intubated but not in intubated patients. The EVLWI at admission was associated with in-hospital mortality in our patient collective of critically ill patients and might constitute not only a tool for risk stratification but most importantly a valuable treatment goal.

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ABSTRACT:Urban development corresponds with economic shifts. In the second half of the twentieth century, when traditional forms of industrial production declined in many western cities, this posed new kinds of challenges. Cities were in need of a new economic base and at the same time had to cope with the abandonment of industrial sites. This article highlights the agency of local societies in shaping this process of deindustrialization and redevelopment. It interprets deindustrialization and redevelopment as a process of transformation which was open-ended and a matter of intense negotiation between diverging interests at the local level. In analysing the highly contentious case of the disused Stollwerck chocolate factory in Cologne, the article traces a complex set of site-specific factors of deindustrialization and redevelopment.

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