BACKGROUND Heated breathing tubes were developed to improve heated humidification in continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy of patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). OBJECTIVES We wanted to investigate the influence of a heated breathing tube on patients' satisfaction with the treatment, the rate of side effects and the adherence to treatment. METHODS Eighty-eigh...

Introduction: we have recently reported the presence of two potassium currents with 598 and 368 pS conductance in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) membrane. The 598 pS channel was voltage dependent and ATP sensitive. However, the 368 pS channel was rarely observed and its identity remained obscure. Since cationic channels in intracellular organelles such as mitochondria and RER play imp...

Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Convective Heat Transfer from Heated Blocks in a Horizontal Channel Mohammed Amine Moussaoui a; Mohammed Jami a; Ahmed Mezrhab a; Hassan Naji b a Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire de Mécanique and Energétique, Oujda, Maroc b Laboratoire de Mécanique de Lille UMR CNRS, Université Lille 1-Sciences et Technologies/Polytech'Lille, Villeneuve ...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Experimental techniques 2.1. Ion concentrations 2.2. Whole-cell recording 2.3. Current clamp and voltage clamp 2.4. Voltage clamp experiments 2.5. Recording single channel activity 2.6. Rundown 2.7. Effect of intracellular calcium buffering 2.8. Heterogeneity of cardiac cells 2.9. Electrical pathway between cells 3. Modeling the cell membrane and ion channels 3.1. El...

this study seeks to examine how a company can select the best intermediary for its marketing channels with minimum of criteria and time. a theoretical framework is proposed based on the most important tasks of intermediary and the criteria to measure them. there are four basic tasks and thirty criteria in three independent levels. subsequently, an exploratory case study in iranian food industry...

From both a fundamental viewpoint and the perspective of wave-function engineering an electron pumped by single-electron sources, it is important to understand how gains energy while propagating along time-dependent region in quantum Hall channel. In our previous work, we experimentally observed that, when travels through before entering pump, pump current becomes substantially larger than quan...