To assess incidence and magnitude of the "lower inflection point" of the chest wall, the sigmoidal equation was used in 36 consecutive patients intubated and mechanically ventilated with acute lung injury (ALI). They were 21 primary and 5 secondary ALI, 6 unilateral pneumonia, and 4 cardiogenic pulmonary edema. The lower inflection point was estimated as the point of maximal compliance increase...

In this paper, the author investigates a generic type of the two dimensional incompressible viscous boundary layer flows near the inflection point of a smooth curve. In particular, an approximate evaluation of velocity distribution in an “adjacent” region of the inflection point of this curve is derived. Here, it is a priory assumed that this point is unique. Besides, the flow field is supposed...

An Inflection Point The tablet PC should provide the inflection point, the technological break that will provide the combination of portability and screen space required for real-life clinical use. Unlike a laptop, it can be held in one’s arm like the metal jacket of a patient chart, with data entered with a penlike device. This completely replicates the mode of data collection physicians have ...

We describe a model for tree crown extraction from aerial images, a problem of great practical importance for the forestry industry. The novelty lies in the prior model of the region occupied by tree crowns in the image, which is a phase field version of the higher-order active contour inflection point ‘gas of circles’ model. The model combines the strengths of the inflection point model with t...