Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) is a characteristic feature of asthma, and generally correlates with severity of asthma. Understanding the protection mechanism against excessive airway narrowing and how it breaks down is fundamental to solving the problem of asthma. In this paper we have proposed a stochastic modeling the airway smooth muscle bundle for reproducing AHR such as an increased sen...

Sinusoidal patterns of spatially modulated near-infrared 650 nm structured light are used to interrogate multilayer phantoms and tissue. Diffuse reflectance is imaged at multiple spatial frequencies from 0–0.3 mm−1. ac and dc components of the image are fit to a two layer model formulated from the diffusion approximation to the Boltzman transport equation. The two-layer model depends on optical...

Various approaches have been developed over the last four decades to characterize the magnitude of nonlinear interactions between triads of internal waves in stratified oceanic flows. The present manuscript compares some of these approaches and their predictions for internal wave nonlinearity parameter and Boltzman rate. We demonstrate that, for resonant triads in the limit of long internal wav...

Our goal is to learn useful features for helicopter flight data, and in particular to use these features to classify segments of the flight data according to which maneuver is most likely being performed. The feature-learning aspect of this task is challenging because it is not immediately apparent from observing the data what good features for helicopter trajectory data are. We implemented a h...

Paraffin melting is widely applied to the fields of PCM energy storage, gathering and transportation pipe-line paraffin removal, etc. Natural-convection main heat transfer mode during melting, Rayleigh number an important factor affecting change natural-convection intensity. Nusselt variation can reflect influence on transfer. The conventional hot wall surface reflects only convective intensity...

We estimate the CIMS sensitivity for the hydroxyhydroperoxides (ISOPOOH) and hydroperoxyaldehydes (HPALD) from the ion-molecule collision rate, calculated using the parameterization of Su and Chesnavich [1]. This requires knowledge of the average dipole moment and polarizibility of the neutral species. We obtain these parameters for the species of interest from ab initio calulations. For accura...

In this paper we propose a way of determining the subleading corrections to the BekensteinHawking black hole entropy by considering a modified generalized uncertainty principle with two parameters. In the context of modified generalized uncertainty principle, coefficients of the correction terms of black hole entropy are written in terms of combination of the parameters. We also calculate corre...

The leptogenesis is studied in the neutrino textures with two zeros, which reduce the number of independent phases of the CP violation. The phenomenological favored neutrino textures with two zeros are decomposed into the Dirac neutrino mass matrix and the right-handed Majorana one in the see-saw mechanism. Putting the condition to suppress the μ → eγ decay enough, the texture zeros of the Dira...

Hot carriers at metal surfaces can drive nonthermal reactions of adsorbates. Characterizing nonequilibrium statistics among various degrees of freedom in an ultrafast time scale is crucial to understand and develop hot carrier-driven chemistry. Here we demonstrate multidimensional vibrational dynamics of carbon monoxide (CO) on Cu(100) along hot-carrier induced desorption studied by using time-...

The diffusion characteristics of Mg–rare-earth diffusion couples were studied. Cylinders of pure Mg and rare earth (Dy, Nd, and Pr) were abutted and annealed at 500 °C for 100 h or 300 h. Point-by-point composition profiles were collected starting in pure Mg, across the diffusion zone, and ending in the pure rare earth, using energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy with a scanning electron microsc...