To test the hypothesis that the divaricate habit protects internal leaves from cold and dry conditions, and raises leaf temperatures on cold sunny days, thermocouples were attached to internal and external leaves on divaricate plants. For Coprosma propinqua plants at Cass, inland Canterbury, there were consistent differences in temperature between leaves, but these were not simply related to th...

Curriculum Vitae Yang Zhou (1989, Chinese) started her PhD research at Delft University of Technology from September 2013. In June 2014, she graduated as a master majoring in Traffic Information Engineering and Control from Wuhan University of Technology in China. And she got her bachelor degree with the major Maritime Management in June 2011. During the undergraduate and postgraduate study, sh...

Objectives- Recording intraoperative cardiorespiratory events in thoracoscopic total pericardiectomy via transdiaphragmatic camera port in dog to evaluate feasibility and risks of mechanical stimulation of pherenic nerve during this surgical approach.Design- Technical assessment, experimental study.Animals- Nine healthy, male mixed breed dogs.Procedures- Under one lung ventilation inhalation ge...

The integration of clean energy sources (CESs) into modern power systems has been studied using various converter topologies. challenges integrating CESs are facilitated by the proper design multi-port (MPPC) architecture. In this study, a brand-new two-stage MPPC is suggested as solution to intermittent nature and slow response (SR) CESs. system combines DC\DC DC\AC storage unit, circuit addit...

the area of musa bay (khor musa) on which two vital and important ports of imam khomeini (port shapour) and mahshar have taken place on its shore is located geographically at the far northeast of the persian gulf, south of khuzestan province. early in the world war ii, despite iran’s neutral declaration, port shapour was blitzed and occupied by british navy on august 24, 1941. iran's resis...

We present the living application, a method to autonomously manage applications on the grid. During its execution on the grid, the living application makes choices on the resources to use in order to complete its tasks. These choices can be based on the internal state, or on autonomously acquired knowledge from external sensors. By giving limited user capabilities to a living application, the l...

Knowledge of the varying drainage patterns of superficial veins of head & neck, in particular, jugular veins are not only important for anatomists but also for the surgeons operating at this level and to clinicians in general. The variations are important also for interventional radiologists, who perform trans-jugular procedures, such as port implantations and trans-jugular intra-hepatic porto-...

We developed a flexible port for NOTES which allows the use of conventional forceps for laparoscope-assisted surgery without change. The port is not affected by the location of the through hole in the gastrointestinal tract or vagina which elicits a problem in conventional NOTES, and its length can be adjusted during surgery by cutting the port itself. The port is made of polymer resin with a l...