One of the sustainable approaches to improving indoor thermal comfort and building ventilation efficiency, particularly in developing populated countries, is implement optimum passive design solutions. However, interaction between performance, comfort, features buildings scarcely studied domain airflow modeling. Therefore, this study aims at assessing performance with regards strategies, specif...

The partial molar volume (PMV) is a thermodynamic quantity which contains important information about the solute-solvent interactions as well as the solute structure in solution. Additionally, the PMV is the most essential quantity in the analysis of the pressure effect on chemical reactions. This article reviews the recent developments in molecular theories of the PMV, especially the reference...

During surveillance of the swine population in Israel a haemagglutinating agent was isolated and identified as a paramyxovirus (PMV). Serological studies based on haemagglutination and neuraminidase inhibition (HI and NI) tests displayed a close antigenic relationship between the isolate and the prototype strain of a variety of the avian PMV serotype 3 (PMV-3). However, comprehensive HI and NI ...

The Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) was originally isolated from a spontaneous mammary adenocarcinoma of a female monkey. Searching for evidence of M-PMV in healthy rhesus monkeys has led to the recovery of similar isolates from cultures derived from normal mammary, fetal, and placental tissues. The viral morphology as well as the process of virus formation observed with the new isolates are ...

Evidence suggests that the role played by the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin in female reproductive physiology is mediated in part by neurons located within the ventral premammillary nucleus (PMV). Leptin activates PMV neurons; however, the intracellular signaling pathway and channel(s) involved remain undefined. Notably, leptin's excitatory and inhibitory effects within hypothalamic and brai...

BACKGROUND Acute liver failure (ALF) is a rapidly progressing and fatal disease for which liver transplantation (LT) is the only treatment. Posttransplant mechanical ventilation tends to be more prolonged in patients with ALF than in other LT patients. The present study examined the clinical effects of prolonged posttransplant mechanical ventilation (PMV), and identified risk factors for PMV fo...

Over years, the number of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) in ICU has increased. Trends in the numbers of patients requiring PMV are of interest to health service planners because they consume a disproportionate amount of healthcare resources, and have high illness costs.1 PMV is defined as need of invasive mechanical ventilation for consecutive 21 days for at least 6 h...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous mitral balloon valvuloplasty (PMV) results in good immediate results, particularly in patients with echocardiographic scores (Echo-Sc) < or =8. However, which variables relate to long-term outcome is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS We report the immediate and long-term clinical follow-up (mean, 4.2+/-3.7 years; range, 0.5 to 15) of 879 patients who underwent 939 PMV proce...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the short- term effects of percutaneous mitral valvuloplasty (PMV) on coexisting AR. METHODS Clinical, echocardiographic and catheterization data from hospital records of a total of 327 patients with rheumatic mitral stenosis who underwent PMV at a tertiary centre were retrospectively reviewed and aortic regurgitation changes 48 hours post PMV ...

Physiological conditions of low leptin levels like those observed during negative energy balance are usually characterized by the suppression of luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion and fertility. Leptin administration restores LH levels and reproductive function. Leptin action on LH secretion is thought to be mediated by the brain. However, the neuronal population that mediates this effect is st...