BACKGROUND The key to successful neonatal resuscitation is effective ventilation. Little evidence exists to guide clinicians in their choice of manual ventilation device or face mask. The expiratory tidal volume measured at the mask (V(TE(mask))) is a good estimate of the tidal volume delivered during simulated neonatal resuscitation. AIM To compare the efficacy of (a) the Laerdal infant resu...

OBJECTIVE To measure the imposed power of breathing (imposed work of breathing per minute) associated with spontaneous breathing through an active impedance threshold device and a sham impedance threshold device. DESIGN Prospective randomized blinded protocol. SETTING University medical center. PATIENTS Nineteen healthy, normotensive volunteers (10 males, 9 females, age range 20-56 y, mea...

A recent article by D'Zmura and Knoblauch (1998) argued from experiments using sectored noise that chromatic detection is subserved by multiple post-receptoral mechanisms, and not solely by mechanisms tuned to specific cone-opponent 'red – green' and 'blue– yellow' directions as has been proposed previously. An important feature of their analysis is their use of angles within a threshold-scaled...

Abstract Quickly and conveniently identifying buildings in disaster areas plays an important role assessment. To achieve the technical requirements of flood relief projects, this paper proposes a building extraction method for use with remote sensing images that combines traditional digital image processing methods convolution neural networks. First, threshold segmentation is used to select con...

the technique of applying mask is one of the most important techniques in arabic contemporary poetry in which the ancient characters would be recalled by mentioned technique in order to express the desired concepts. this literary technique plays an important role in egyptian modernism contemporary poetry. thus the present research intends to survey the lexical and expressional meaning of mask a...