OBJECTIVE Check if the Temporal flow response to Tilt could provide early hemodynamic pattern in the minutes preceding a syncope during the Tilt test performed after a 60-d head down bedrest (HDBR). METHOD Twenty-one men divided into 3 groups [Control (Con), Resistive Vibration (RVE) and Chinese Herb (Herb)] underwent a 60 day HDBR. Pre and Post HDBR a 20 min Tilt identified Finishers (F) and...

A prototype multiple crystal echocardiographic system developed by Bom and associates was used to evaluate cross-sectional cardiac anatomy in real time in twenty infants and children with endocardial cushion defect (ECD). The findings were compared to fifty normal infants and children and nineteen patients with normal mitral valve anatomy but right ventricular enlargement (RVE). Three standard ...

In this paper, a numerical multiscale method is proposed for computing the response of structures made of linearly non-aging viscoelastic and highly heterogeneous materials. In contrast with most of the approaches reported in the literature, the present one operates directly in the time domain and avoids both defining macroscopic internal variables and concurrent computations at micro and macro...

The aim of this research is to assess the effects of interphase property and matrix property on the tensile elastic modulus (TEM) of the carbon nanotube (CNT) using a 3-D nanoscale representative volume element (RVE) based on continuum mechanics and using the finite element method (FEM). Formulas to extract the effective material constants from solutions for the RVE is derived based on the elas...

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Deconditioning is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The physiology of vascular adaptation to deconditioning has not been elucidated. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of bed rest deconditioning on vascular dimension and function of leg conduit arteries. In addition, the effectiveness of resistive vibration exercise as a countermeasure for vascular deconditioning...

The paper discusses the problem of manufacturability of the minimum compliance designs of the structural elements made of two kinds of inhomogeneous materials: the isotropic and cubic. In both the cases the unit cost of the design is assumed as equal to the trace of the Hooke tensor. The Isotropic Material Design (IMD) delivers the optimal distribution of the bulk and shear moduli within the de...

OBJECTIVES Due to the need for suitable donors for heart transplantation (HTx), older grafts and grafts with prolonged graft ischaemic time (GIT) are accepted. The impact of GIT and donor age on post-transplant cardiac function has not been examined with either newer echocardiographic techniques (tissue Doppler imaging, TDI) or cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Thus, we studied the influ...

We examined the effects of bed-rest, recovery and exercise countermeasures on bone density and structure at the distal tibia and radius as measured via high-resolution peripheral computed tomography. 24 subjects underwent 60-days of head-down tilt bed-rest and performed either resistive vibration exercise (RVE; n = 7), resistive exercise only (RE; n = 8) or no exercise (n = 9; 2nd Berlin BedRes...

We describe a multiscale method to simulate the deformation of plant tissue. At the cellular scale we use a combination of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and discrete elements to model the geometrical structure and basic properties of individual plant cells. At the coarse level, the material is described by the standard continuum approach without explicitly constructing a constitutive eq...