To study how the human diaphragm changes configuration during inspiration, we simultaneously measured diaphragm thickening using ultrasound and inspired volumes using a pneumotachograph. Diaphragm length was assessed by chest radiography. We found that thickening and shortening were greatest during a breath taken primarily with the abdomen. However, the degree of thickening was greater than exp...

Reverse osmosis is a commonly used process in water desalination. Due to the scarcity of freshwater resources and wastewater problems, a lot of theory and experimental studies have been conducted to optimize this process. In the present study, the performance of reverse osmosis membrane module of salt–water separation was simulated based on computational fluid dynamics technique and solution-di...

With the trend of globalized mass fashion industry, we need the fashion process from design to manufacture to be accomplished under more precise and efficient way. There are 2 main streams in fashion illustration now, one is art work style illustration, which has strong character of designer, and often cannot be used directly in the mass fashion industry; the other is standard fashion flat illu...

‎we call a ring $r$ right generalized semiperfect if every simple right $r$-module is an epimorphic image of a flat right $r$-module with small kernel‎, ‎that is‎, ‎every simple right $r$-module has a flat $b$-cover‎. ‎we give some properties of such rings along with examples‎. ‎we introduce flat strong covers as flat covers which are also flat $b$-covers and give characterizations of $a$-perfe...

An enhanced unfolding Inverse Finite Element Method (IFEM) has been used together with an extended strain-based forming limit diagram (EFLD) to develop a fast and reliable approach to predict the feasibility of the deep drawing process of a part and determining where the failure or defects can occur. In the developed unfolding IFEM, the meshed part is properly fold out on the flat sheet and tre...

Neuronal microtubules have been reassembled from brain tissue homogenates and purified. In reassembly from purified preparations, one of the first structures formed was a flat sheet, consisting of up to 13 longitudinal filaments, which was identified as an incomplete microtubule wall. Electron micrographs of these flat sheets and intact microtubules were analyzed by optical diffraction, and the...

Nano-scale nipple array on the body surface has been described from various invertebrates including endoparasitic and mesoparasitic copepods, but the functions of the nipple array is not well understood. Using the hydrophilized nanopillar sheets made of polystyrene as a mimetic material of the nipple arrays on the parasites’ body surface, we assayed the cell spreading and phagocytosis of the he...

Origami describes rules for creating folded structures from patterns on a flat sheet, but does not prescribe how patterns can be designed to fit target shapes. Here, starting from the simplest periodic origami pattern that yields one-degree-of-freedom collapsible structures-we show that scale-independent elementary geometric constructions and constrained optimization algorithms can be used to d...