BACKGROUND During coronary stenosis, flow reserve in the adjacent nonstenotic bed decreases, but the microvascular mechanisms are unknown. Because myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) assesses microvascular physiology, we used it to relate flow reserve to intramyocardial blood volume in the adjacent bed. METHODS AND RESULTS A noncritical left anterior descending (LAD) stenosis was creat...

OBJECTIVE Bornholm eye disease (BED) consists of X-linked high myopia, high cylinder, optic nerve hypoplasia, reduced electroretinographic flicker with abnormal photopic responses, and deuteranopia. The disease maps to chromosome Xq28 and is the first designated high-grade myopia locus (MYP1). We studied a second family from Minnesota with a similar X-linked phenotype, also of Danish descent. A...

Natural zeolite was used as a bed medium for plantation of lettuce seedlings and its effects on growth and chemical composition of red tilapia and lettuce were investigated in a pisciponic system. The place of study was the Aquatic Resources Technology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, at the University Putra Malaysia, in 2002. The mean individual weight and biomass of fish in the treatment w...

Natural zeolite was used as a bed medium for plantation of lettuce seedlings and its effects on growth and chemical composition of red tilapia and lettuce were investigated in a pisciponic system. The place of study was the Aquatic Resources Technology Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, at the University Putra Malaysia, in 2002. The mean individual weight and biomass of fish in the treatment w...

Liquid injection in fluidized beds is used to add reactants or improve the heat management reactor. This will increase complexity of reactor due formation agglomerates. In this work effect on particle temperature distribution a bed porous particles determined experimentally using image velocimetry and infra-red thermography. The main property influencing specific surface area. addition, porosit...

Fast pyrolysis of rice husk was performed in a spout-fluid bed to produce water-soluble organics. The effects of mineral bed materials (red brick, calcite, limestone, and dolomite) on yield and quality of organics were evaluated with the help of principal component analysis (PCA). Compared to quartz sand, red brick, limestone, and dolomite increased the yield of the water-soluble organics by 6-...

As a natural building material and environment, red-bed mudstone has special engineering properties due to its formation conditions. The disaster caused by these is becoming increasingly prominent. Therefore, it of great theoretical significance practical value study the macro- micromechanical mudstone. Nanoindentation mechanical tests are carried out on from Chuxiong, Jingdong, Nanhua in Yunna...