BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE External counterpulsation (ECP) improves coronary perfusion, increases left ventricular stroke volume similar to intraaortic balloon counterpulsation, and recruits arterial collaterals within ischemic territories. We sought to determine ECPs effect on middle cerebral artery (MCA) blood flow augmentation in normal controls as a first step to support future clinical trials ...

Current treatment for acute respiratory failure (ARF) includes the use of mechanical ventilation and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, both of which can exacerbate lung injury. Intravenous respiratory support, using hollow fiber membranes placed in the vena cava, represents an attractive potential treatment for ARF, which could help reduce or eliminate ventilator induced trauma and/or oth...

Five nights photoelectric photometric observations through v and y bands confirm the pulsation of classical Am δ Scuti variable 60 Tau. Power spectrum of light curves shows multi-period pulsation behavior of 60 Tau and two pulsation modes f1=13.0364 and f2=11.8521 cycles per day are definitely identified. Classical Am star 60 Tau is a complicated pulsation δ Scuti variable. Considering the puls...

This paper investigates the influence of pressure pulsation and flow-induced noise using a two-way dual-purpose pump. The signal is obtained from Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) turbulent model calculation as fan sound source, field distribution in impeller calculated. numerical results show that external characteristics simulation correlate well with experimental values. Under different working...

Near-infrared observations of the active galaxy MCG–6-30-15 provide strong evidence that its molecular gas fueling reservoir is of external origin. MCG–6-30-15 has a counter-rotating core of stars within its central 400 pc and a counter-rotating disc of molecular gas that extends as close as∼50–100 pc from the central black hole. The gas counter-rotation establishes that the gas reservoir in th...

Spraying of liquids through an electrified meniscus has become a method of choice to produce ions from large biomolecules. Using mass spectrometry, the generated ions can be analyzed to provide detailed information on their composition and structure. This technique enables high-throughput protein analysis that is a prerequisite for answering the questions presented by proteomics. In this report...