Simultaneous recording of the electrocardiogram and of the pressure transmitted through the drainage needle in patients with haemopericardium provided confirmation that the needle tip was in the pericardial cavity. Proper position was indicated by a positive pressure wave beginning before the QRS complex, reaching its maximum value in the first part of the ST segment and ending with the T wave....

AIM To compare the average sealer cement film thickness and the extent and pattern of sealer penetration into dentinal tubules in association with four obturation techniques in curved root canals. METHODOLOGY Mesial canals of 44 extracted mandibular molars were randomly divided among the SimpliFill, continuous wave, Thermafil and 0.04 matched taper (master cones) lateral compaction obturation...

We have investigated the role of turbulence for two problems, the effect of the polarization current on the NTM and the effect of diamagnetic drifts on mode penetration. For the NTM problem, we find that the fluctuations exert a drag force on the island that results in a stabilizing slowdown in the propagation velocity. For the mode penetration problem, we have investigated the influence of pol...

We have measured the temperature dependence of the microwave surface impedance Zs5Rs1ivm0l of two c-axis oriented MgB2 films employing dielectric resonator techniques. The temperature dependence of the magnetic-field penetration depth l determined by a sapphire dielectric resonator at 17.9 GHz can be well fitted from 5 K close to Tc by the standard BCS integral expression assuming the reduced e...

The generation and propagation of internal tides has been studied with an isopycnic three-dimensional ocean model. The response of a uniformly stratified sea in a channel, which is forced by a barotropic tide on its open boundary, is considered. The tide progresses into the channel and forces internal tides over a continental slope at the other end. The channel has a length of 1200 km and a wid...

Generation of coherent short-wavelength radiation across a plasma column is dramatically improved under traveling-wave excitation (TWE). The latter is optimized when its propagation is close to the speed of light, which implies small-angle target-irradiation. Yet, short-wavelength lasing needs large irradiation angles in order to increase the optical penetration of the pump into the plasma core...

In this paper, a six-stage interactive model is presented for the perforation of metallic plates using blunt deformable projectiles when plastic wave propagation in both target and projectile is considered. In this analytical model, it is assumed that the projectile and target materials are rigid – plastic linear work hardened. The penetration of the projectile into the target is divided into s...