Myocardial fiber diameters were measured to determine their distribution throughout the ventricular wall in normal adult hearts, hypertensive hearts and hearts with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). In normal adult hearts and hypertensive hearts, the diameter decreased from the inner to the outer third of the left ventricular free wall and from the left ventricular side to the right ventricula...

BACKGROUND The associations between toe grip strength (TGS) and foot structure are not well known, although foot structure is inferred to affect TGS. This study investigated the associations between TGS and hallux valgus angle (HVA), toe curl ability, and foot arch height (FAH). METHODS This study analysed 227, 20 to 79-year-old, community-dwelling participants. TGS, HVA formed by the first m...

This work focuses on investigating the characteristics of restricted horizontal jet fire caused by fuel leakage as a pipeline or tank fracture. The study aims to quantify effect exit velocity and nozzle-facing wall distance flame height width, well developing new non-dimensional heat release rate Qn* better characterize geometry. conducted three distances (0.05, 0.10, 0.15 m) with varying eject...

Cotton leaf curl virus disease (CLCuD) is caused by a suite of whitefly-transmitted begomovirus species and strains, resulting in extensive losses annually in India and Pakistan. RNA-interference (RNAi) is a proven technology used for knockdown of gene expression in higher organisms and viruses. In this study, a small interfering RNA (siRNA) construct was designed to target the AC1 gene of Cott...

Natural convection in an inclined porous cavity with positively or negatively inclined angles is studied numerically for time-periodic boundary conditions on the left side wall and partially active thermal boundary conditions on the right wall. The results show that a partially active thermal boundary condition on wall B can lead to heat transfer between two opposing vertical side walls. Temper...

We consider domain decomposition preconditioners for the linear algebraic equations which result from finite element discretization of problems involving the bilinear form α(·, ·) + (curl ·, curl ·) defined on a polyhedral domain Ω. Here (·, ·) denotes the inner product in (L(Ω)) and α is a positive number. We use Nedelec’s curl-conforming finite elements to discretize the problem. Both additiv...

Inflationary gravitational waves (GW) contribute to the curl component in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Cosmic shear--gravitational lensing of the CMB--converts a fraction of the dominant gradient polarization to the curl component. Higher-order correlations can be used to map the cosmic shear and subtract this contribution to the curl. Arcminute resolution will be ...

Through-wall-radar imaging is of interest for mapping the wall layout of buildings and for the detection of stationary targets within buildings. In this paper, we present an easy single-side two-location spotlight imaging method for both wall layout mapping and stationary target detection by utilizing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) through-wall-radar. Rather than imaging for building wal...

Abstract. We define discrete differential operators such as grad, div and curl, on general two-dimensional non-orthogonal meshes. These discrete operators verify discrete analogues of usual continuous theorems: discrete Green formulae, discrete Hodge decomposition of vector fields, vector curls have a vanishing divergence and gradients have a vanishing curl. We apply these ideas to discretize d...