BACKGROUND In hepatosplenic schistosomiasis occurs diffuse hepatic fibrosis associated with venous congestion of the portal system resulting in hepatosplenomegaly. It can produce digestive hemorrhage caused by rupture of esophageal and stomach varices or peptic gastroduodenal mucosal lesions. AIM To study the effects of splenectomy and ligature of the left gastric vein on portohepatic hemodyn...

(A) BAND ELECTRODE ARRAY (B) CIRCUMFERENTIAL SPOT (C) LONGITUDINAL SPOT ELECTRODE ARRAY ELECTRODE ARRAY FIGUBE 1. Four terminal systems for the measurement of thoracic impedance. A. Flexible metal electrodes encircling neck and thorax. 50 kHz constant sinusoidal current (1 mA rms) was applied to electrodes 1, 4. Voltage changes reflecting thoracic impedance changes were picked up from electrode...

The fiber optic sensors (FOSs) are commonly used for large-scale structure monitoring systems for their small size, noise free and low electrical risk characteristics. Embedded fiber optic sensors (FOSs) lead to micro-damage in composite structures. This damage generation threshold is based on the coating material of the FOSs and their diameter. In addition, embedded FOSs are aligned parallel t...

We propose a new transient model which naturally extends the sinusoidal model to nonstationary phenomena. An integrated online-offline segmentation approach is developed, followed by an explicitly time-variant sinusoidal model.

BACKGROUND Much of our current understanding of microvascular permeability is based on the findings of classic experimental studies of blood capillary permeability to various-sized lipid-insoluble endogenous and non-endogenous macromolecules. According to the classic small pore theory of microvascular permeability, which was formulated on the basis of the findings of studies on the transcapilla...

INTRODUCTION Liver dysfunction is a common feature of severe sepsis and is associated with a poor outcome. Both liver perfusion and hepatic inflammatory response in sepsis might be affected by sympathetic nerve activity. However, the effects of thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA), which is associated with regional sympathetic block, on septic liver injury are unknown. Therefore, we investigated ...

A method of speech enhancement is developed that reconstructs clean speech from a set of acoustic features using a sinusoidal model of speech. This is a significant departure from traditional filtering-based methods of speech enhancement. A major challenge with this approach is to estimate accurately the acoustic features (voicing, fundamental frequency, spectral envelope) from noisy speech. Th...

The methods of finite-time thermodynamics are used to find the optimal time path of an Otto cycle with friction and heat leakage. Optimality is defined by maximization of the work per cycle; the system is constrained to operate at a fixed frequency, so the maximum power is obtained. The result is an improvement of about 10% in the effectiveness (second-law efficiency) of a conventional near-sin...

This paper proposes a novel method of speech enhancement that moves away from conventional filtering-based methods and instead aims to reconstruct clean speech from a set of speech features. Underlying the enhancement system is a speech model which at present is based on a sinusoidal model. This is driven by a set of speech features, comprising voicing, fundamental frequency and spectral envelo...

1 November 2001 Alternating Current Theory J R Lucas An alternating waveform is a periodic waveform which alternate between positive and negative values. Unlike direct waveforms, they cannot be characterised by one magnitude as their amplitude is continuously varying from instant to instant. Thus various forms of magnitudes are defined for such waveforms. The advantage of the alternating wavefo...