abstract in this study, the effect of suspended load transport on the characteristics of submerged hydraulic jump (shj) in a rectangular channel was investigated experimentally. sediment concentration and jet froude numbers in the range of 0.424%-16.15% and 1.93-4.96, respectively, were considered. tow grain size 0.15 and 0.03 mm were used in the experiments. characteristics of submerged hydrau...

Previous experiments have demonstrated that the vestibular system contributes to regulating sympathetic nervous system activity, particularly the discharges of vasoconstrictor fibres. In the present study, we examined the physiological significance of vestibulosympathetic responses by comparing blood flow and vascular resistance in the forelimb and hindlimb during head-up tilt from the prone po...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate a new flow analyze device that can intraoperatively measure compliance and resistance of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) by the parameter identification method. METHODS Subjects were 95 patients who underwent CABG. Angiography soon after surgery confirmed patency in 90 grafts and graft failure in 5 grafts. Variables of aortic pressure and t...

The effects of small intestinal infusion of nutrients on the transpyloric flow and pyloric resistance were evaluated in anaesthetized pigs. Saline versus isocaloric solutions of dextrose, triglycerides and casein were infused into a jejunal loop during saline gastric loading. Antropyloroduodenal pressures were measured with a sleeve/side-hole manometric assembly and the transpyloric flow with a...

Given the increasing emphasis on performance of resistance exercise as an essential component of health, we evaluated, using a prospective longitudinal design, the potential for resistance training to affect arterial endothelial function. Twenty-eight men (23 +/- 3.9 yr old; mean +/- SE) engaged in 12 wk of whole body resistance training five times per week using a repeating split-body 3-day cy...

Knowledge of dispersal-related gene flow is important for addressing many basic and applied questions in ecology and evolution. We used landscape genetics to understand the recovery of a recently expanded population of fishers (Martes pennanti) in Ontario, Canada. An important focus of landscape genetics is modelling the effects of landscape features on gene flow. Most often resistance surfaces...

Manning's roughness coefficient for flow over bare soil is needed in order to determine other hydraulic parameters such as flow depth and velocity in overland flow, parameters needed to calculate streampower and shear stress in erosion process studies. A modified equation of Manning's n was developed to estimate flow velocity in shallow overland flow in experiments undertaken in a 5.8 by 1 m fl...

Point: The muscle metaboreflex does restore blood flow to contracting muscles Imposed reductions in oxygen delivery to active skeletal muscle during dynamic exercise in conscious dogs evoke a powerful pressor response, termed the muscle metaboreflex. During submaximal work rates, the major mechanism used by this reflex is to increase cardiac output (CO), which generates a greater perfusion pres...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the clinical performance of and theoretical basis for the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) approximation to the fractional flow reserve (FFR). BACKGROUND Recent work has proposed iFR as a vasodilation-free alternative to FFR for making mechanical revascularization decisions. Its fundamental basis is the assumption that diastolic resting myocardial re...

Endothelium-derived relaxing factor has been shown to regulate renal blood flow, and inhibition of its synthesis increases blood pressure and renal vascular resistance and decreases renal blood flow. Using the substrate antagonist NW-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), we tested whether renal vasoconstriction induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor synthesis inhibition could be media...