A first attempt was made to provide norms for intravaginal pressure in normal women measured by the Kegel perineometer. Data obtained from 78 white females and 64 black females indicate that resting pressure approximates 5 mm Hg, and pressure with appropriate pelvic musculature contracted reaches an average o f 15 mm Hg. The difference between resting and contracted pressures is unrelated to th...

Reliability of 804 indirect measurements of systemic arterial blood pressure (BP) was assessed in 13 cats by comparing results obtained indirectly by oscillometry (BPo) and Doppler ultrasonography (BPud) with those obtained simultaneously by a reference method, direct radiotelemetry (BPrt). The reliability varied considerably among sites of cuff placement and method of indirect measurement in c...

This paper presents a parametric design system for 3D tire mold production. Tire grooves commonly used in the current industry are classified according to their modeling procedures, and the design parameters for each groove type are characterized. The result serves as a foundation for standardization of the tire mold design. The presented system simplifies the construction of 3D groove surfaces...

The continuous cuffless arterial blood pressure (ABP) can be calculated by the pulse transit velocity. Its accuracy is significantly influenced by the selection of the photoplethysmography (PPG) feature points. In this paper, we designed an assessment function to calculate the quality of PPG. The quality index indicates the reliability of PPG and helps to determine proper feature points. Kalman...

This paper introduces a new approach to statistical pressure snakes. It uses statistical modeling for both object and background to obtain a more robust pressure model. The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is used to model the data into a Mixture of Gaussians (MoG). Bayesian theory is then employed as a decision making mechanism. Experimental results using the traditional pressure model ...

Differential (D) and persistent scatterer (PS) interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) (DInSAR and PSInSAR) techniques are arguably the most cost effective and efficient methods today for ground surface deformation monitoring since their invention in the last quarter of the twentieth century. They overcome the limitations of traditional methods of deformation monitoring with regards to...

High blood pressure (BP), or hypertension, is a common, long-term health condition, particularly among older adults. Untreated or ineffectively treated hypertension leads to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and increased consumption of health care resources, thus levying high human and financial costs to society. In adults, hypertension is defined as a persistently elevated BP ...

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Environmental parameters can seriously affect the performances of continuously running spring gravimeters. Temperature is a primary interfering quantity and its effect must be reduced through algorithms implementing a suitable compensation scheme. Algorithms to reduce the signals coming from continuously running gravimeters for the effect of meteorological perturbations have been developed and ...

CePtAl absorbs hydrogen up to a concentration of 1.1(1)H mol−1 at room temperature. The formation of this hydride CePtAlH1.1 that loses hydrogen in air corresponds to a plateau pressure of 0.08–0.1 MPa. Its absorption–desorption is practically reversible which can present a potential interest for applications (but only a few due to the high price of the material) around room temperature and nor...