Aerosol bolus dispersion is a physiological test of lungs, which uses monodisperse submicron particles to measure intrapulmonary convective gas mixing. In this study, aerosol bolus dispersion was measured in healthy subjects in order to assess reference values for possible clinical applications, to assess the reproducibility of these values, and to identify physical and physiological factors in...

In the title compound, C(25)H(18)O(2)S·C(4)H(8)O(2), there are inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds between the main mol-ecule and the solvent molecule. The thio-phene ring is oriented at dihedral angles of 70.87 (7) and 75.36 (4)° with respect to the mean planes of the two naphthyl ring systems.

background: this study was designed to evaluate the correlation between subjective data obtained from a questionnaire and clinical examination among students in shiraz university of medical sciences. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional prospective study, the samples consisted of 200 subjects, with equal distribution between males and females. subjects’ ages ranged from 18 to 30 years...

Linear stability analysis of the three dimensional plane wake flow is performed using a mapped finite di?erence scheme in a domain which is doubly infinite in the cross–stream direction of wake flow. The physical domain in cross–stream direction is mapped to the computational domain using a cotangent mapping of the form y = ?cot(??). The Squire transformation [2], proposed by Squire, is also us...

In this study, a hydrometallurgical treatment involving the solvent extraction and recovery of some heavy metals from a sulphuric acid leach solution of galvanic sludge, using di-(2-ethylhexyl)-phosphoric acid (D2EHPA) and bis-(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)-phosphinic acid (Cyanex 272), both diluted in kerosene, has been investigated. The preliminary tests revealed the necessity to remove other metal ...

John Forsyth,* 1 José M. Pereña, Rosario Benavente, Ernesto Pérez, Incoronata Tritto, Laura Boggioni, Hans-Herbert Brintzinger 1 Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a de Polı́meros (CSIC), Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected] 2 Istituto di Chimica delle Macromolecole – CNR, Via E. Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy 3 Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Postfach 55...

A resin monomer-soluble polyrotaxane (PRX) crosslinker with cleavable end groups was synthesized to develop degradable photosetting composite resins. The PRX containing 50 α-cyclodextrins (α-CDs) with disulfide end groups was initially modified with n-butylamine to obtain a resin monomer-soluble PRX. The PRX containing 13 n-butyl groups per α-CD molecule was completely soluble in conventional r...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a potent inhibitor of thrombin-induced increase in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration and aggregation in platelets, but the precise mechanism of this inhibition is unclear. To measure Ca2+/Mn2+ influx in intact platelets and to monitor Ca2+ uptake into the stores in permeabilized platelets, fura-2 was used. In intact platelets, maximal capacitative Ca2+ and Mn2+ influx dev...

One of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. In order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...