A 57-year-old male visited our clinic with chief complaint of exertional chest pain. He had been on anti-hypertensive medication for 15 years. In 1999, he went through coronary artery bypass graft surgery for myocardial infarction, using an aorto-left anterior descending artery (LAD) bypass with the left internal mammary artery, and aorto-right coronary artery (RCA) bypass with saphenous vein. ...

In offshore structures, most of failures are caused by the lack of sufficient piles strength. Scour phenomena affects the load transition and the pile strength. The necessity of the consideration of scouring phenomena amplifies when the scour depth becomes remarkable, which can endanger the jacket stability. In this paper, a new method is used to consider the pile scouring using nonlinear pusho...

In order to reduce the functional degradation caused by improper daily washing-care and prolong service life of technical jacket, relationship between washing conditions in wearing performance jacket (waterproof, windproof, warmth retention) was quantitatively investigated with help hydrostatic pressure, surface contact angle, air permeability, retention, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) afte...

We describe a novel soft jacket and sling-harness restraint that permits species-typical postures for small-bodied primates, such as the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus), during long-term (>6 h), continuous restraint. The restraint system is straightforward to use and manipulate, it is easily repaired, and the materials used are readily available. The soft jacket allows for increased versat...

The Vital Jacket® (VJ) is a wearable vital signs monitoring system that joins textiles with microelectronics. After several years of development within the university lab, it has been licensed to a start-up company. Its evolutions have focused on cardiology and sports and scaled down from a jacket to a single T-shirt. The VJ manufacturing process has recently been certified to comply with the s...