OBJECTIVE Breast pumping or hand expression may be recommended when newborns latch or suck poorly. A recent trial found worse outcomes among mothers who used a breast pump in the early postpartum period. The objective of this study was to compare bilateral electric breast pumping to hand expression among mothers of healthy term infants feeding poorly at 12-36 h after birth. DESIGN Randomised ...

We propose to realize adiabatic topological spin and valley pumping by using silicene, subject to the modulation of an in-plane ac electric field with amplitude Ey and a vertical electric field consisting of an electrostatic component and an ac component with amplitudes and . By tuning and , topological valley pumping or spin-valley pumping can be achieved. The low-noise valley and spin current...

Charge separation near a liquid/solid interface is explored by the electrohydrodynamic pumping of Freon TF, transformer oil, and silicone oil using high voltage traveling waves. Liquid head displacement measurements show strong dependencies on peak voltage amplitude (1.0-2.5 kV), frequency (0.1-20 Hz), liquid viscosity (0.5-20 cS), and liquid conductivity to 10-9 0-lm-l ). Reverse pumping, oppo...

The objective of this article is to find the optimal trajectory of a pumping ship, used to clean oil spots in the open sea, in order to pump the maximum quantity of pollutant on a fixed time period. We use a model previously developed to simulate the evolution of the oil spots concentration due to the coupling of diffusion, transport from the wind, sea currents and pumping process and reaction ...

It is well known that the dynamic position of the rod pumping aid in the diagnosis of onshore oil wells and can be used to control the pumping unit. Even today the acquisition of the position of the polished rod is made using physical transducers of position. However, this paper shows that the dynamic position of the polished rod can be inferred from torque current (which is given by sensorless...