More than any other chronic respiratory disease, asthma is characterized by functional and clinical variability: expiratory flow obstruction, dyspnoea and wheezing may be absent, mild, or severe. Moreover, pulmonary gas exchange often does not closely relate to measured airway obstruction. Accordingly, the correlation between arterial oxygen tension and airflow (Pa,O2) rate indices of obstructi...

BACKGROUND Although recommendations in oxygenation and gas exchange monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are available, little is known of the current practice. AIM To evaluate the current practice in oxygenation and gas exchange monitoring of the NICUs in the Netherlands. METHODS An online survey-based questionnaire concerning preferences and current practice of monitoring...

we calculate the stopping power for heavy-ion diclusters moving in a strongly coupled two-dimensional electron gas system by using the local field corrected dielectric function at finite temperature. we obtain a parameterized local field correction factor based on a relation between the thermal compressibility and exchange-correlation energy in two-dimension. the interpolated parameter is deriv...

Gas exchange in animals is ultimately diffusion based, generally occurring across dedicated respiratory organs. In many aquatic amphibians, however, multiple modes of gas exchange exist, allowing for the partitioning of O2 uptake and CO2 excretion between respiratory organs with different efficiencies. For example, due to the physical properties of O2 being vastly different between air and wate...

Hughes & Shelton (1962), Hughes (1964) and Rahn (1966) have analysed gas exchange in animals in an aquatic environment, particularly fish, from a theoretical viewpoint. These authors provide equations which permit a quantitative analysis of the gas-exchange process. From these, it is possible to determine the relative effectiveness of the exchange process (Hughes & Shelton, 1962) in a single an...

For terrestrial animals and plants, a fundamental cost of living is water vapor lost to the atmosphere during exchange of metabolic gases. Here, by bringing together previously developed models for specific taxa, we integrate properties common to all terrestrial gas exchangers into a universal model of water loss. The model predicts that water loss scales to gas exchange with an exponent of 1 a...