BACKGROUND Men and women respond differently to asthma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Maximal inspiratory mouth pressure (P(Imax)), beta(2)-agonist consumption, and perception of dyspnea (POD) were measured in 22 women and 22 men with mild persistent-to-moderate asthma. Next, the women were randomized into two groups: those who received inspiratory muscle training and those who received sham training....

A Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is constructed for a Mach 0.9 turbulent jet using a well-validated direct numerical simulation database. Norms are defined based on near-field volume integrals of pressure, turbulence kinetic energy, streamwise velocity, and total enthalpy, two-dimensional integrals of streamswise velocity (to match experimental measurements), and far-field integrals of p...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate cooling rates of The Polar Life Pod®, a military protocol and cold water immersion. A randomized, repeated measures design was used to compare three treatment options. Participants exercised in an environmental chamber, where they followed a military march protocol on a treadmill, followed by the application of one of three treatments: Cold water immers...

It is well-known that the performance of POD and POD-DEIM methods depends on the selection of the snapshot locations. In this work, we consider the selections of the locations for POD and POD-DEIM snapshots for spatially semi-discretized linear or semi-linear parabolic PDEs. We present an approach that for a fixed number of snapshots the optimal locations may be selected such that the global di...

Thrombotic microangiopathy is a form of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR): it is the main complication of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantation (KT). Herein, we report on two cases of ABMR with biological and histological features of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) that were treated by eculizumab after ABOi KT. The first patient presented with features of TMA at postoperative day (PO...

1392 December 2012 We read with interest the recent article by Flink et al.1 in which the authors evaluated the frequency of postoperative delirium (POD) in 106 elderly patients aged 65 yr or older after elective knee replacement. The screening for POD was thorough and well-conducted with recognized screening tools, with an incidence of 25% on days 2–3 postoperatively. The pathophysiologic mech...

DESIGN Inhaled iloprost was known to alleviate ischemic-reperfusion lung injury. We investigated whether intraoperative inhaled iloprost can prevent the development of primary graft dysfunction after lung transplantation. Data for a consecutive series of patients who underwent lung transplantation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation were retrieved. By propensity score matching, 2 comparabl...

The Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) is a method that may be applied to linear and nonlinear structures for extracting important information from a measured structural response. Previous methods of using the POD for system identification typically use the POD for model reduction only and system identification is accomplished via standard methods. A method for using the POD-based identifica...

BACKGROUND Pneumoperitoneum with an intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) of 14 mmHg is known to decrease renal function. Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) requires an IAP of more than 15 mmHg for operation. Therefore, we retrospectively investigated whether patients who underwent RARP experienced renal insufficiency during the postoperative period (at postoperative days 7 and 30). METHO...

In this paper, proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is used for model reduction of mixed finite element (MFE) for the nonstationary Navier–Stokes equations and error estimates between a reference solution and the POD solution of reduced MFE formulation are derived. The basic idea of this reduction technique is that ensembles of data are first compiled from transient solutions computed equation...