We used a porcine endotoxemic model of acute lung injury to compare extravascular lung water (EVLW) measured by right transthoracic bioimpedance to postmortem gravimetric EVLW measurements. Adult pigs were randomized into control (N = 5) or endotoxin groups [150 microgram/kg Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide B for 1 hr followed by 3 hr of resuscitation for a thermodilution cardiac output less...

In the context of highly efficient, non-toxic and natural organic corrosion inhibitors, Phyllogorgia dilatata was studied as an anticorrosive for mild steel in acid medium. The marine octocoral crude extract (PDCE) was characterized and analyzed by LC-HRMS, revealing the presence of 16 different organic molecules. The corrosion inhibition was evaluated via weight loss study and electrochemical ...

Let G be a topological group and let EC be a free contractible G-space. The Bore1 construction on a G-space X is the orbit space Xo = EC x G X. When asked what equivariant cohomology is, most people would answer Bore1 cohomology, namely H:(X) = H*(X,). This theory has the claim of priority and the merit of ready computability, and many very beautiful results have been proven with it. However, i...

The hygroscopicity of mineral aerosol samples has been examined by three independent methods: diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, thermo-gravimetric analysis and differential mobility analysis. All three methods allow an evaluation of the water coverage of two samples, CaCO 3 and Arizona Test dust, as a func-5 tion of relative humidity. For the first time, a correlation...

nowadays, combination of gps heights with orthometric heights, derived from precise leveling, is broadly used to obtain point-wise solutions of the geoid, which is called “gps/leveling geoid”. the “gps/leveling geoid” is commonly used to constrain the gravimetric geoid solutions in a least squares surface fitting process. in this paper, unlike the usual application, the “gps/leveling geoid” is ...