[1] Controlled recovery of hydrated minerals subjected to planar shock loading is challenging because of the large difference in shock impedance between the natural samples and the engineering materials used as the recovery capsules. Significant differences in recovery capsule design confound straightforward interpretation of existing data on shock modification of hydrated minerals. We present ...

Renal tubular permeability was studied by microinjection techniques during increased intrarenal pressure in anesthetized diuretic rats. Intrarenal pressure, as evidenced by intratubular pressure (ITP), was increased by elevation of ureteral pressure, partial renal venous constriction, or massive saline diuresis. Various combinations of radioactive inulin, creatinine, mannitol, sucrose, and ioth...

The time evolution of a Munch pressure-flow translocation system is calculated using a numerical computer method. Results are obtained for the time course of the system variables following application of a large resistance in the translocation path, intended to simulate a cold block. The resistance factor required to produce translocation inhibition indicates that even moderate inhibition is pr...

chemical flooding, especially alkaline/surfactant/polymer flooding, is of increasing interest due to the world increasing oil demand. this work shows the aspects of using alkaline/surfactant/polymer as an enhanced oil recovery method in the porous media having a high dead-end pore frequency with various dead-end pore parameters (such as opening, depth, aspect ratio, and orientation). using glas...

  Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a major clinical condition and research is commonly done to find suitable treatment options. However, there are some degrees of spontaneous recovery after SCI and gender is said to be a contributing factor in recovery, but this is controversial. This study was done to compare the effects of sexual dimorphism on spontaneous recovery after spinal cord inj...

purpose this study was conducted to investigate risk factors of obesity and its associated health problems in adolescence in taiwan. methods we enrolled 559 adolescent volunteers with equal numbers of females and males in 2008. participants were divided into two groups: obese (body mass index [bmi] ≧95th percentile) and normal-weight adolescents (bmi: 15th ∼ 85th percentile). each of them compl...

background: platelets rapidly lose their qualities usually after 5 day of storage. different standard methods have been recommended to check the quality of platelets during storage which some of them show better correlation with other quality markers during storage. the purpose of this study was to demonstrate if platelet factor 3 (pf3) assay could be an indicator of storage lesion and provide ...

Editor’s key points † The recovery of the swallowing reflex is key to weaning from tracheostomy. † A cuffed tracheostomy tube anchors the tracheal to the anterior neck tissues and interferes with swallowing. † This study in intensive care patients demonstrated that the presence of a cuffed tube interferes with both the latency and magnitude of the swallowing reflex. † The effect increased with ...