The replacement fluid ingested immediately after exercise provides the hydration for the next exercise. Limiting fluid ingested before exercise can cause problems to the thermoregulation body process during the following exercise if that fluid is not adequate. The loss of water from the body due to sweating is a function related to the combined effects of exercise intensity and environmental co...

The “ideal” fluid replacement regimen in trauma patients is still discussed controversially. Aside from blood, several nonblood alternatives—including crystalloids, hypertonic solutions, albumin, and nonprotein (synthetic) colloids—are available to correct hypovolemia in the trauma patient. Interpretation of the literature is difficult because of variations in study design, patient population, ...

Stochastic fluid models have been applied to model and evaluate the performance of many important real systems. The automatic analysis tools to support of fluid models are still not as improved as the ones for discrete state Markov models, but there is a wide range of models which can be effectively described and analyzed with fluid models. Also the model support of hybrid models from various p...

Polyethylene wear is a significant clinical problem in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Although the tribology of joint replacement has consequently become an area of significant research, the effect of joint fluid on lubrication has been largely overlooked in the replaced joint. One factor that affects the tribology of metal on polyethylene articulation in joint prostheses is mechanical properti...

Mineral replacement in rocks consists of growth of guest mineral and dissolution of host. The two reactions are coupled by the grain–grain stress generated by growth of the guest grain in a rigid or very viscous rock in which it has initially no available room. This stress self-adjusts to make the volumetric rates of guest growth and host dissolution equal to each other, which accounts for the ...

This report provides a summary of research conducted through a grant provided by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board of Ontario. The research was divided into two phases; first, to define safe work limits for firefighters wearing their protective clothing and working in warm environments; and, the second, to examine strategies to reduce the thermal burden and extend the operational effectivene...

Loss of fluid during prolonged exercise has been purported to be a cause of fatigue (Below et al., 1995; Walsh et al., 1994, for example). A plethora of information regarding ‘optimal’ fluid replacement strategies exists; perhaps the most prominent of these in the public domain is the position stand on exercise and fluid replacement published by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). I...

Fracture orientation is a prominent factor in determining the reservoir fluid flow direction in a formation because fractures are the major paths through which fluid flow occurs. Hence, a true modeling of orientation leads to a reliable prediction of fluid flow. Traditionally, various distributions are used for orientation modeling in fracture networks. Although they offer a fairly suitable est...

There has been a dramatic increase in the number and type of procedures performed in the field of cardiac intervention in the past decade. Percutaneous intervention is becoming an increasingly recognized modality for the management of prosthetic paravalvular leakages (PVLs) in severely symptomatic non-surgical candidates. Herein, we report our experience of percutaneous closure using the Amplat...