In cold defense and fever, activity increases in sympathetic nerves supplying both tail vessels and interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT). These mediate cutaneous vasoconstrictor and thermogenic responses, respectively, and both depend upon neurons in the rostral medullary raphé. To examine the commonality of brain circuits driving these two outflows, sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) was re...

BACKGROUND Numerous designs are used to the treatment of Early Onset Scoliosis. For example, a Thoraco-Lumbo-Sacral Orthosis (TLSO) is constructed using Polyethylene (PE). In addition, a series of castings has been implemented using cast material (3M, BSN Medical). The cast material has some significant advantages over the PE design including: growth preserving, improved compliance, decreased i...

A commercial low-density polyethylene (LDPE) which is produced by the polymerization process of ethylene in presence initiators a long tubular reactor most widely used polymer industry. The highly exothermic nature LDPE and heating-cooling prerequisite can lead to various problems, particularly safety terms thermal runaway productivity, i.e., decreasing monomer conversion. Therefore, model-base...

The paper presents the background to expressions adopted in new Eurocode 8—3 for jacketed reinforced concrete columns. These are based on commonly concept of monolithicity factors (ratios resistance section that an identical monolithic one). derived here two ways: (i) by fitting experimental results columns and (ii) extended parametric study substandard (R/C) members were retrofitted adding R/C...

An orthogonal cocyclic framework of the block-wise inverse Jacket transform (BIJT) is proposed over the finite field. Instead of the conventional block-wise inverse Jacket matrix (BIJM), we investigate the cocyclic block-wise inverse Jacket matrix (CBIJM), where the high-order CBIJM can be factorized into the low-order sparse CBIJMs with a successive block architecture. It has a recursive fashi...

In this paper, we propose a new construction method for a novel class of parametric reciprocal-orthogonal jacket transform (PROJT) having 4N parameters for a sequence length N = 2r+1 that is a power of two, based on the reciprocal-orthogonal parametric (ROP) transform and block diagonal matrices. It is shown that the inverse transform of the proposed PROJT is conveniently obtained by the recipr...

OBJECTIVE Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is associated with a progressive deterioration in cardiac function. We hypothesised that some of the deleterious effects of DCM could be reduced by mechanically limiting the degree of cardiac dilatation. METHODS A Transonic 20A cardiac output (CO) flow-probe was implanted in the pulmonary artery of 12 adult (52 +/- 4 kg) sheep. Early heart failure was cr...