OBJECTIVES Aspiration of the lower airways due to foreign body is rare in adults. This study aimed to determine the outcome of patients who received flexible bronchoscopy with different modalities for foreign body removal in the lower airways. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between January 2003 and January 2014, 94 patients diagnosed with foreign body in the lower airways underwent flexible bronchoscop...

Over the last decade, X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism (XMCD) and X-ray Resonant Magnetic Scattering (XRMS) have become important experimental techniques in the study of magnetic materials. In order to reduce systematic errors in these measurements, typical XMCD and XRMS experiments are carried out using magnetization switching, although there are many situations where polarization switching i...

The role of the basal ganglia in the adaptive control of movement was investigated by unexpectedly perturbing movements in 8 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) tested off medication and in 6 aged-matched healthy subjects. Subjects performed two movement components simultaneously and without visual feedback: touching the nose with the finger while leaning the trunk forward. Subjects wore a h...

We present a novel approach to construct integrated isolators and circulators based on magneto-optical materials. An integrated electromagnet is designed and fabricated, eliminating the need for a permanent magnet. The fabricated devices exhibit high performance and can be easily integrated/packaged. Introduction Nonreciprocal components, such as optical isolators and circulators, are fundament...

The performance of a superconducting linear accelerator (SLA) system for pellet injection in fuel nuclear fusion reactors was investigated numerically. To this end, numerical code using the finite element method developed to analyze shielding current density and dynamic motion high-temperature thin film SLA system. computational results showed that applying an exponential electromagnet, signifi...