MILIC-EMILI, J., J. MEAD, J. M. TURNER, AND E. M. GLAUSER. Improved technique for estimating pleural pressure from esophageal balloons. J. Appl. Physiol. I g(2) : 207-2 I I. I g64.-Esophageal pressure has been measured in eight healthy men during breath holding (glottis open) at various fixed lung volumes with a rubber balloon (length: IO cm; perimeter: 3.5 cm; wall thickness: ca. 0.06 mm) cont...

To determine whether pericardial liquid pressure accurately measures pericardial constraint, we developed a technique in which a catheter was positioned perpendicular to the epicardial surface. This device, which occupies little or no pericardial space, couples the thin film of liquid to a transducer. In six open-chest dogs, we also measured left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) ...

of the cell wall: The growth equation for the rate of water uptake is augmented with a transpiration term. The obtained augmented growth equations are used to develop methodology which employs the pressure probe to measure transpiration rates from single plant cells. Experiments are conducted on the sporangiophores of Phycomyces blakesleeanus to demonstrate this

Background During the last decades, researchers have provided a plethora of therapeutic uses of kaempferol, including anticancer, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, anti-oxidative and anti-oestrogenic activities, making kaempferol a valuable compound [1]. However, being a poor water-soluble compound, kaempferol often has insufficient solubility and bioavailability [2].To find a solution for th...

Monitoring bodily pressures provide valuable diagnostic and prognostic information. In particular, long-term measurement through implantable sensors is highly desirable in situations where percutaneous access can be complicated or dangerous (e.g., intracranial pressure in hydrocephalic patients). In spite of decades of progress in the fabrication of miniature solid-state pressure sensors, senso...

The author presents a new intracranial pressure (ICP) pulse morphology visualization technique that provides insight into the functional relationship between morphology and a signal metric. In signals tested for this paper, the technique performed well and provided an accurate qualitative description of the relationship between morphology and the signal metrics of mean ICP (ICPM ), heart rate, ...

Handwriting recognition is often considered as an ideal solution for pen-based Chinese input. However, handwriting Chinese suffers from a performance bottleneck due to the complex structure of Chinese characters. We designed Donuts, a technique that allows a user to enter Chinese characters by navigating through a hierarchical marking menu of phonetic symbols. In particular, to place 12 vowels ...

An experimental investigation was conducted to study the effects of blowing ratio and the existence of lands on the film cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade trailing-edge model. Instead of using a temperature-based technique, a mass transfer analogywas used to quantify the film cooling effectiveness. This was done through themeasurement of the distribution of oxygen concentration over the ...