Transport sector is one of the biggest emitters of CO2 and it is especially road transport which causes a lot of not only environmental but also health damages. Local air and noise pollutions affect millions of inhabitants in cities around the whole world. Urgent need to move towards substantial improvements in environmental efficiency of road transport is therefore paramount challenge of our c...

A reduction in diaphragm mobility has been identified in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has been associated with a decline in pulmonary function parameters. However, little information exists regarding the potential role of diaphragm mobility on hypercapnia in COPD. A new method of assessing the mobility of the diaphragm, using ultrasound, has recently been valid...

Low field ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry (IMS-MS) techniques exhibit low orthogonality, as inverse mobility often scales with mass to charge ratio. This inadequacy can be mitigated by adding vapor dopants, which may cluster with analyte ions and shift their mobilities by amounts independent of both mass and mobility of the ion. It is therefore important to understand the interactio...

We describe a method for synthesizing large-area and uniform molybdenum disulfide films, with control over the layer number, on insulating substrates using a gas phase sulfuric precursor (H2S) and a molybdenum metal source. The metal layer thickness was varied to effectively control the number of layers (2 to 12) present in the synthesized film. The films were grown on wafer-scale Si/SiO2 or qu...

We report measurements of excess electron mobility in dense Argon gas at the two temperatures T = 152.15 and 162.30 K, fairly close to the critical one (Tc = 150.7 K), as a function of the gas density N up to 14 atoms·nm−3 (Nc = 8.08 atoms·nm−3). For the first time a maximum of the zero-field density-normalized mobility μ0N has been observed at the same density where it was detected in liquid A...

background and aim: total hip replacement (thr) is done comprehensively all over the world. despite the effects of braces on control of thr complications , few studies have been performed on this subject. the purpose of this study was to evaluate immediate effect of hip abduction brace on mobility and functional balance of patients with thr.    materials and methods: eight men and nine women wi...

BACKGROUND Evidence regarding outcomes in the Geriatric Day Hospital (GDH) model of care has been largely inconclusive, possibly due to measurement issues. This prospective cohort study aims to determine whether treatment in a GDH could improve individualized outcome measures using goal attainment scaling (GAS) and whether improvements are maintained 6-months post-discharge. METHODS A total o...

We report on detailed room-temperature transport properties of a 17 nm thick double-gate silicon-on-insulator (DGSOI) transistor. We find that when the electron gas is transferred between the top and the bottom of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) layer by changing the gate bias symmetry (i.e., applying the gate biases in a push–pull fashion), while keeping the carrier density constant the maximum...