This paper presents an experimental study of the compression behavior of a typical warp-knitted spacer fabric which is specially developed as a cushioning material for human body protection. The fabric has a highly heterogeneous and discontinuous structure and exhibits a complicated compression behavior. Different test boundary conditions and sample sizes were first adopted to conduct compressi...

The dielectric pocket gate-all-around (DPGAA) MOSFET is being considered the best suited candidate for ULSI electronic chips because of excellent electrostatic control over channel. However, phenomena self-heating and hot carrier injection (HCI) severely affect performance device, make behaviour DPGAA FET very unpredictable. In present article, a comprehensive investigation under influence effe...

Axial and lateral pressure loss in a 5 × rod–bundle with split-type mixing vane spacer grid was experimentally measured using differential transmitters at different sub-channel Reynolds numbers (Re) orienting angles. The geometrical parameters of the 5–rod bundle are as follows: they have same diameter (D = 9.5 mm) pitch ( p 12.6 those real fuel rods typical pressurized water reactor (PWR), hyd...

BACKGROUND Ciclesonide is an inhaled corticosteroid administered by a metered dose inhaler (MDI) to treat bronchial asthma. After inhalation, the inactive ciclesonide is converted by esterases in the airways to active metabolite desisobutyryl-ciclesonide (des-CIC). AIM To compare the pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters of des-CIC in children after administration of therapeutic dose of ciclesonide...

Nedocromil sodium given by the Fisonair spacer should be inhaled immediately. Multiple actuations into the spacer should be avoided. Delay of 20 seconds before sampling reduced the amount of drug available for inhalation in the respirable range by 81%. Placing two actuations into the spacer reduced the amount of drug available by 47%.

Study Design In vitro biomechanical investigation. Purpose To compare the biomechanics of integrated three-screw and four-screw anterior interbody spacer devices and traditional techniques for treatment of degenerative disc disease. Overview of Literature Biomechanical literature describes investigations of operative techniques and integrated devices with four dual-stacked, diverging interb...

Simultaneous prosthetic joint infection of ipsilateral hip and knee arthroplasties is often accompanied by significant bone loss and presents a challenging reconstructive problem. Two-stage reconstruction is favored and requires the placement of a total femur spacer, which is not a commercially available device. We describe a surgical technique, reporting on 2 cases in which a customized total ...