Introduction: The Cerberus region of Mars has numerous geologically recent fluvial and volcanic features superimposed spatially, with some of them using the same flow channels and apparent vent structures [1, 2]. Lava-water interaction landforms such as psuedocraters suggest some interaction of emplacing lava flows with underlying ground ice or water (e.g. [1, 3]). This study investigates a rel...

The duration of sleep and the position of the face while resting on a pillow have a negative impact on the facial skin appearance and may lead to the formation of sleep wrinkles. Sleep lines occur when there is repetitive, long-term tension on the facial skin, which pushes or pulls the skin in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of the muscles of the face. These lines tend to be ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Airway safety may be provided with endotracheal intubation especially for oral procedures because of some potential risks such as aspiration of secretion or foreign bodies. In this study, we aimed to determine whether placing a pillow under the occiput may facilitate endotracheal intubation in non-cooperative children whose extensive dental treatments were planned to ta...

The aim of the project is to develop intelligent pillow to monitor the heart rate by using fiber optical sensor. The research is focused upon allowing more automation of patient care, an especially important matter for the elder population or bedridden patients, which is a rapidly growing fraction of much of the world population today. The fiber-optical sensor is built into pillow. Patients can...

Aim To study the most effective body position for Heimlich maneuver. Methods A choking simulation manikin was connected to a laryngeal model of a child or an adult, and a differential pressure transducer recorded the airway pressure and waveform during the maneuver. A konjac jelly was placed on the larynx to mimic complete supralaryngeal obstruction. The maneuver (five successive compression...

[1] Accurate lava flow unit thicknesses estimates are necessary to place constraints on volcanic flux estimates. We refine the technique of using the shape of crater size-frequency distribution (CSFD) curves to estimate the thickness of individual lunar mare flow units. We find that a characteristic knee often observed in CSFD curves is reasonably interpreted to represent the presence of two la...

Identifying the genes underlying adaptation is a major challenge in evolutionary biology. Here, we describe the molecular changes underlying adaptive coat color variation in a natural population of rock pocket mice, Chaetodipus intermedius. Rock pocket mice are generally light-colored and live on light-colored rocks. However, populations of dark (melanic) mice are found on dark lava, and this c...

[1] Spring systems on the west slope of the Oregon High Cascades exhibit complex relationships among modern topography, lava flow geometries, and groundwater flow patterns. Seven cold springs were continuously monitored for discharge and temperature in the 2004 water year, and they were periodically sampled for dO, dD, tritium, and dissolved noble gases. Anomalously high unit discharges suggest...

Kansas Lava is a functional hardware description language implemented in Haskell. In the course of attempting to generate ever larger circuits, we have found the need to effectively test and debug the internals of Kansas Lava. This includes confirming both the simulated behavior of the circuit and its hardware realization via generated VHDL. In this paper we share our approach to this problem, ...

The growing demand for new software calls for a considerable acceleration of the software production process and for a sensible relaxation at the software maintenance front. These goals can be achieved only if we can decisively increase the degree of modularity, variability, comprehensibility of software, or short: the degree of structured programming, as well as the simplicity of program manip...