Mechanical ventilation has the potential to increase inflammation in both healthy and injured lungs. Several animal studies have shown that variable ventilation recruits the lungs and reduces inflammation. However, it is unclear which cellular mechanisms are involved in those findings. We hypothesized that variable stretch of LPS-stimulated alveolar epithelial cells (AECs) reduces the productio...

Hysteresis current control method is vastly used in PWM inverters because of simplicity in performance, fast control response and good ability in limiting peak current. However, switching frequency in hysteresis current control method with fixed bandwidth has large variation during a cycle and therefore causes non-optimal current ripple generation in output current. One of basic problems in imp...

Introduction: Although income is among the major social determinants of mental health of middle-aged and older individuals, socially marginalized groups gain less health from their income and other socioeconomic status (SES) resources compared to socially privileged groups. This pattern is called marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs). Most of the existing knowledge ...

Sebastian Bauer,1 Ian Hodkinson,2 Frank Wolter,3 and Michael Zakharyaschev4 1;3Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Augustus-Platz 10-11, 04109 Leipzig, Germany; 2Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2BZ, U.K.; 4Department of Computer Science, King’s College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K. (e-mails: fbauer,[email protected], [email protected]....

The original algorithm for the SAT problem, Variable Elimination Resolution (VER/DP) has exponential space complexity. To tackle that, the backtracking-based DPLL procedure [2] is used in SAT solvers. We present a combination of two techniques: we use NiVER, a special case of VER, to eliminate some variables in a preprocessing step, and then solve the simplified problem using a DPLL SAT solver....

We study the distribution of entanglement between modes of a free scalar field from the perspective of observers in relative acceleration. The degradation of entanglement due to the Unruh effect is analytically studied for two parties detecting a two-mode squeezed state in an inertial frame, in the cases of either one or both observers undergoing uniform acceleration. We find that for two non-i...