Predicting a defect inflow is important for project planning and monitoring purposes. For project planning purposes and for quality management purposes, an important measure is the trend of defect inflow in the project – i.e. how many defects are reported in a particular stage of the project. Predicting the defect inflow provides a mechanism of early notification whether the project is going to...

Hemodynamic data of 167 patients of isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) was retrospectively analyzed for the presence of left ventricular inflow gradients. End diastolic gradients of > 5 mm Hg between the pulmonary artery wedge pressure and the left ventricular end diastolic pressure were recorded in 40 of these patients. In three of these cases, left atrium was also entered and identical ...

Ruminant phosphorus excretion and metabolism were studied through a database. Faecal endogenous phosphorus is the main pathway of phosphorus excretion and averages 0.85 of total faecal phosphorus. The remaining 0.15 is unabsorbed dietary phosphorus. Faecal endogenous phosphorus is mainly unabsorbed phosphorus, with saliva being the major source, and is correlated to factors influencing saliva s...

We develop a general model of the renal medulla that is similar m geometry to the models reported by others. Two solutes are assumed to be present, one to play the role of salt and the other that of urea and similarly handled compounds. The equations fr’om irreversible thermodynamics are used to describe simultaneous solvent and solute flow across tubular membranes and a salt pump, saturable in...

The effects of expression of the Drosophila melanogaster Trpl protein, which is thought to encode a putative Ca2+ channel [Phillips, Bull and Kelly (1992) Neuron 8, 631-642], on divalent cation inflow in Xenopus laevis oocytes were investigated. The addition of extracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]0) to oocytes injected with trpl cRNA and to mock-injected controls, both loaded with the fluorescent Ca2+ in...

Delva, E., Camus, Y., Nordlinger, B., Honnoun, L., Parc, R., Deriaz, H., Lienhart, A. and Huguet, C. (1989) Vascular Occlusions for Liver Resections Operative Management and Tolerance to Hepatic Ischemia: 142 Cases. Annals o.f Surgery, 209, 211-218. The intraand early postoperative courses of 142 consecutive patients who underwent liver resections using vascular occlusions to reduce bleeding we...

Arabidopsis thaliana root hairs grow longer and denser in response to low-phosphorus availability. We tested the hypothesis that wild-type Arabidopsis would acquire more phosphorus under phosphorus-limiting conditions than mutants that do not have the root hair response. The growth and phosphorus acquisition of wild-type Arabidopsis (WS) were compared to two root hair mutants (rhd6 and rhd2) un...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Future aneurysmal behaviors or treatment outcomes of cerebral aneurysms may be related to the hemodynamics around the inflow zone. Here we investigated the influence of parent artery curvature on the inflow zone location of unruptured sidewall internal carotid artery aneurysms. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 32 aneurysms, the inflow zone location was decided by 4D flow MR ima...

Life and functioning of higher organisms depends on the continuous supply of metabolites to tissues and organs. What are the requirements on the transport network pervading a tissue to provide a uniform supply of metabolites? We present an analytical scaling argument and numerical simulations on how flow dynamics and network architecture control active spread and uniform supply of metabolites b...