BACKGROUND Health status, dyspnea and psychological status are important clinical outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) measured by spirometry, the standard measurement of airflow limitation, has only a weak relationship with these outcomes in COPD. Recently, in addition to spirometry, impulse oscillometry (IOS) measurin...

Gesture production patterns in aphasic discourse: In-depth description and preliminary predictions Kazuki Sekine, Miranda L. Rose, Abby M. Foster, Michelle C. Attard & Lucette E. Lanyon To cite this article: Kazuki Sekine, Miranda L. Rose, Abby M. Foster, Michelle C. Attard & Lucette E. Lanyon (2013) Gesture production patterns in aphasic discourse: Indepth description and preliminary predictio...

For synchronous 3 phase electrical generator machine design, the ability to predict the subtransient reactance of a particular machine design is of prime importance. The subtransient reactance has a significant impact on the magnitude of the fault currents generated within the machine during an event such as a 3 phase short-circuit. Power system designers routinely use the generator subtransien...

Two experiments examined how individuals respond to a restriction presented within an approach versus an avoidance frame. In Study 1, working on a problem-solving task, participants were initially free to choose their strategy, but for a second task were told to change their strategy. The message to change was embedded in either an approach or avoidance frame. When confronted with an avoidance ...

This paper analyses and designs a kind of wireless power transmission system via near field resonant coupling. It introduces the wireless power transmission technology, and combination of traditional inductive coupling and resonance. The project consists of modeling and construction of the hardware to prove the feasibility of wireless power transmission using near field resonant coupling. The h...

The calculation of antenna has been an interesting and a controversial topic for years. In this paper, we first give a rigorous study of antenna by introducing a complete description of the complex power balance relation for an antenna system. Using the complex Poynting theorem, we have shown that the antenna is essentially equivalent to a one port lossy network. The Foster reactance theorem is...

By accounting for limited human computational ability, willpower, and rationality within economic models, work in behavioral economics has highlighted the ways in which individuals’ choices may systematically deviate from their own best interest. As a result, policymakers have considered any number of paternalistic policies (both overt taxes and restrictions, or more subtle “nudges”) to move in...