Additive Manufacturing (AM) using the Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) is a relatively new manufacturing method that is capable of creating shapes that was previously practically impossible to manufacture. Many think it will revolutionize how manufacturing will be done in the future. This thesis is about some aspects of when and how to Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) when using the PBF method i...

BACKGROUND Current evidence suggests that in children there is a significant, albeit weak, association between asthma and obesity. Studies generally use body mass index (BMI) in evaluating body adiposity, but there are limitations to its use. METHOD Children from a population-based study attending follow-up (age 11 years) were weighed, measured and had percent body (PBF) and truncal (PTF) fat...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the respective effects of position and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on the distribution of regional pulmonary blood flow (PBF). DESIGN Prospective randomized animal study. SETTING Animal research facility in a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Normal pigs that were tracheostomized, anesthetized, and mechanically ventilated. INTERVENTIONS PBF was mea...

Abstract In most countries implementing structural transformations in their higher education systems, a key goal of policymakers is to tie the amount public funding university performance. The present article analyses Russian performance-based (PBF) reform provide quasi-experimental assessment its effects on To evaluate causal effect PBF performance, we define treatment and control groups by di...

Laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M) of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) has experienced growing scientific and industrial interest in the last years, with a special focus on application relevant systems based zirconium. The high cooling rates layer-wise build-up process allow overcoming size geometry limitations typical for conventional casting routes. Yet, novel production approach requires differe...

Pulmonary blood flow (PBF) is an important determinant of endurance sports performance, yet studies investigating adaptations of the pulmonary circulation in athletes are scarce. In the present study, we investigated PBF, its distribution, and heterogeneity at baseline and during intravenous systemic adenosine infusion in 10 highly trained male endurance athletes and 10 untrained but fit health...

Obesity prevalence and average body composition vary by US race and gender. Asian Americans have the lowest prevalence of obesity. Relying on body-mass index (BMI) to estimate obesity prevalence may misclassify subgroups that appear normally weighted but have excess body fat. We evaluated percentage body fat (PBF) and BMI to determine whether BMI reflects PBF consistently across different races...

In mature lungs, elevated positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) reduces pulmonary blood flow (PBF) and increases pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). However, the effect of PEEP on PBF in preterm infants with immature lungs and a patent ductus arteriosus is unknown. Fetal sheep were catheterized at 124 days of gestation (term approximately 147 days), and a flow probe was placed around the lef...

In the daily clinical routine at the bedside, information on effective pulmonary blood flow (PBF) is limited and requires invasive monitoring, including a pulmonary artery catheter, to determine both cardiac output and intrapulmonary shunt. Therefore we evaluated a non-invasive method for the measurement of PBF in a clinical setting, including 12 patients with acute respiratory failure (acute r...