BACKGROUND Prone position is used to recruit collapsed dependent lung regions during severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, improving lung elastance and lung gas content. We hypothesised that, in the absence of recruitment, prone position would not result in any improvement in lung mechanical properties or gas content compared to supine position. METHODS Ten healthy pigs under general an...

We present the results of compositional reservoir simulation of a prototypical CO2 sequestration project in a deep saline aquifer. The objective was to better understand and quantify estimates of the most important CO2 storage mechanisms under realistic physical conditions. Simulations of a few decades of CO2 injection followed by 10 to 10 years of natural gradient flow were done. The impact of...

In the framework of the IFMIF-EVEDA project, a high deuteron beam intensity (125 mA 9 MeV) prototype accelerator will be built and tested at Rokkasho (Japan). CEA-Saclay group and CIEMAT-Madrid (Spain) are responsible for the beam instrumentation from the ion source to the beam dump. One of the most challenging diagnostic is the Beam Transverse Profile Monitor. Two kinds of monitor are investig...

The thermal dynamical property of ideal gas on the noncommutative geometry in the coherent state formalism is investigated. We first evaluate the statistical interparticle potential and see that there are residual “attraction potential” between boson and residual “repulsion potential” between fermion in the high temperature limit. The characters could be traced to the fact that, the particle wi...

Several methods are known for the detection of traces of solvents in oil or paraffin. A gravimetric method (3) and a rapid colorimetrie method for the determination of residual solvents (4) are not sensitive enough. The same is true for the method developed by Eisdorf er &,Mehlenbacher (5) for the detenninatipn of trichloroethylene in plant oils after extraction with xylene. Rather sensitive de...

BACKGROUND Sonography has become the imaging technique of choice for guiding intraoperative interventions in abdominal surgery. Due to artefacts from residual air content, however, videothoracoscopic and open intraoperative ultrasound-guided thermoablation of lung malignancies are impossible. Lung flooding is a new method that allows complete ultrasound imaging of lungs and their tumours. MET...

Natural gas is odorized by trace amount of mercaptans and organic sulfides to be recognized by individuals, in case of gas leakage. These materials may pollute the environment particularly in injection station at local gas plants. Therefore, removal of sulfur compounds from the remaining odorant in barrels is essential. To remove the residual portion of mercaptans and alkylsulfide mixtures diff...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate the long-term outcome of lung function in survivors of severe ARDS after modern treatment strategies including lung protective mechanical ventilation and prone positioning maneuvers. DESIGN Follow-up cohort study. SETTING University hospital pulmonary division and level 1 trauma center. PATIENTS Sixteen survivors of severe ARDS (from 1992 to 1994) with a lu...

[1] We apply ‘‘residual mean’’ theory of tracer transport, in which eddy transfer plays a fundamental role, to develop scalings and idealized numerical models of the Southern Ocean uptake of transient tracers. The streamline-averaged numerical model, which represents transport in the meridional plane, captures the observed distributions of CFC-11, bomb-DC, and anthropogenic CO2. The model repro...

In the gaseous envelope of protogalaxies, thermal instability leads to the formation of a population of cool fragments which are confined by the pressure of a residual hot background medium. In order to remain in a quasi-hydrostatic equilibrium, the residual gas evolves at approximately the virial temperature of the dark matter halo. Its density is determined by the requirements of thermal equi...