The oxygen concentrator is an accepted means of delivery of long term domiciliary oxygen treatment. Conditions of use, however, need to be carefully defined. Fourteen concentrators were used for one year by patients with hypoxaemic chronic obstructive airways disease, and mechanical reliability, patient compliance with a regimen of 15 hours' use a day, smoking habits, and variation in arterial ...

Electric vehicles (EVs) and photovoltaics (PVs) are new technologies that will play an important role in the transportation industry over next decade. Using solar panels on roofs of cars is one simplest ways to reduce fuel costs increase mobility electric vehicles. Solar can be charged anywhere under Sun without additional infrastructure, but problem size panel limited roof electricity conversi...

An environmental monitoring system is designed to deal with the problems in current solar greenhouse, which mainly composed of concentrator (data exchange terminal) and sampler (sampling terminals). Information of environmental parameter acquired by different sensors in sampling terminals were transmitted to the concentrator by the radio frequency module, a storage circuit was designed in conce...

We present a cost-effective concentrating photovoltaic system composed of a prism and a compound parabolic concentrator (P-CPC). In this approach, the primary collector consists of a prism, a solid compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), and a slab waveguide. The prism, which is placed on the input aperture of CPC, directs the incoming sunlight beam to be parallel with the main axes of parabolic...

Whether long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) improves quality of life in chronic hypoxaemia has been questioned. LTOT with an oxygen concentrator (C/C) and gas cylinders for ambulation is considered cumbersome compared to mobile liquid oxygen equipment (L). The hypothesis for this study was that LTOT with liquid oxygen treatment (L) improves patients' health-related quality of life, but that it is a...

Topological design of centralized computer networks is an important problem that has been investigated by many researchers. Such networks typically involve a large number of terminals connected to concentrators, that are then connected to a central computing site. This paper focuses on the concentrator location problem among general topological network design problems. The concentrator location...

We have analyzed an observation of the supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, performed with the Low Energy Concentrator Spectrometer (LECS) and theMediumEnergyConcentrator Spectrometer (MECS) instruments on board the X-ray satellite BeppoSAX. Thanks to the good sensitivity of the LECS/MECScombination over the range 0.3–8.5 keVwewere able to detect the presence of an additional ...

This longitudinal study explores the lived experience of four couples where one person from each couple is prescribed an oxygen concentrator to use at home. Transcripts were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings reported here focus on two super-ordinate themes: 'the journey of acceptance' and 'negotiating changing relationships'. Participants described a gradual ...

An Egyptian blue integrated luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) is reported.