Arterial stiffening plays an important role in the development of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. The intrinsically nonlinear (ie, pressure-dependent) elastic behavior of arteries may have serious consequences for the accuracy and interpretation of arterial stiffness measurements and, ultimately, for individual patient management. We determined aortic pressure and common carotid arter...

Total respiratory input (Zin) and transfer (Ztr) mechanical impedances were measured from 4-30 Hz in 9 patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in 12 healthy subjects. Zin was obtained by applying a pressure input around the head to minimize transmural pressure across extrathoracic airway walls, and Ztr was obtained with a pressure input at the chest. In agreement w...

PURPOSE To explore the published evidence on the link between treatment satisfaction and patients' compliance, adherence, and/or persistence. METHODS Articles published from January 2005 to November 2010 assessing compliance, adherence, or persistence and treatment satisfaction were identified through literature searches in Medline, Embase, and PsycInfo. Abstracts were reviewed by two indepen...

Beginning with a proof of the existence of a discrete-time trajectory, this paper establishes the convergence of a time-stepping method for solving continuous-time, boundary-value problems for dynamic systems with frictional contacts characterized by local compliance in the normal and tangential directions. Our investigation complements the analysis of the initial-value rigid-body model with on...

a new dynamic friction model for modeling of elliptical vibration assisted turning (evat) was developed in this research. the periodic change of the friction force direction is known to be one of the most important causes of this phenomenon. in modeling of machining processes (including the evat process), static coulomb friction model was employed by most of the researchers. because of the peri...

background: with increasing age, some changes appeared in specifications of vessels which including dimensions and elasticity in their. the changes in parameters such as resistance, inertance and compliance vessels appear and eventually changes in the environmental pulse releases are in circulation. these changes clearly appear in specification of photoplethysmogram particularly in the size and...

This study aims to test and find empirical evidence on the factors that determine individual taxpayer compliance moderated by Account Representative Professionalism (Empirical Study at KPP Pratama Surabaya Mulyorejo). The sample used in this is active taxpayers who are registered Mulyorejo. Data was collected using one of non-probability sampling methods, namely incidental sampling. collection ...

de Groot, Patricia C. E., Michiel W. P. Bleeker, and Maria T. E. Hopman. Ultrasound: a reproducible method to measure conduit vein compliance. J Appl Physiol 98: 1878–1883, 2005. First published January 7, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01166.2004.— Classical venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP) of the leg, often used to assess venous compliance, measures properties of the whole calf, includi...

ABSTRACT: We develop a simple computational tool for SU(3) analogous to Bargmann’s calculus for SU(2). Crucial new inputs are, (i) explicit representation of the Gelfand-Zetlin basis in terms of polynomials in four variables and positive or negative integral powers of a fifth variable (ii) an auxiliary Gaussian measure with respect to which the Gelfand-Zetlin states are orthogonal but not norma...

Quantum Lie algebras are generalizations of Lie algebras which have the quantum parameter h built into their structure. They have been defined concretely as certain submodules Lh(g) of the quantized enveloping algebras Uh(g). On them the quantum Lie product is given by the quantum adjoint action. Here we define for any finite-dimensional simple complex Lie algebra g an abstract quantum Lie alge...