Postural stress requires immediate autonomic nervous action to maintain blood pressure. We determined time-domain cardiac baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) and time delay (tau) between systolic blood pressure and interbeat interval variations during stepwise changes in the angle of vertical body axis (alpha). The assumption was that with increasing postural stress, BRS becomes attenuated, accompanie...

A physiological strain index (PSI) based on heart rate (HR) and rectal temperature (Tre) was recently suggested to evaluate exercise-heat stress in humans. The purpose of this study was to adjust PSI for rats and to evaluate this index at different levels of heat acclimation and training. The corrections of HR and Tre to modify the index for rats are as follows: PSI = 5 (Tre t - Tre 0). (41.5 -...

The general warming trend of the planet cannot be denied (the average global air temperature has increased by approx. 0.85°C between 1880-2012 (IPCC, 2013). direct consequence this is an increase in extreme weather events and hence climate risks. monitoring assessing precipitation, identifying physical laws governing its course order to able estimate forecast it future therefore great interest ...

Entire Solar radiation at Pune, Maharasthra, India longitude 74.15° (74° 9' east), latitude 18.6° (18° 36' north) depends the variation of Direct, Global and Diffuse component of solar radiation throughout the year. Diffuse solar radiation quantitatively wise is high during the rainy season (June, July , August and September). Estimated solar radiation it is observe that solar energy can be uti...

decentralization is the process of dispersing decision-making closer to the point of peripheral area, service or action. basically decentralized governance, if properly planned and implemented, offers important opportunities for enhanced human development. the studies about this issue in different countries show that most of the decentralizations have been implemented in european countries and ...

BACKGROUND Checkrein ligament release for treatment of proximal interphalangeal joint Dupuytren contractures does not address the shortened arteries or deficient skin. The Digit Widget uses soft-tissue distraction to overcome these issues. This study compares checkrein ligament release after fasciectomy versus preliminary soft-tissue distraction, followed by operative release, for treatment of ...

The study features an analysis of 40 years of records of longitude, latitude and power (wind speed) of tropical storms and typhoons over South East Asia seas. The results demonstrate the growing intensity of the most severe events. The singular spectrum analysis of wind speed series from 1960 till 2000 identified two sub-periods of roughly similar behavior. Then, the recorded events were classi...

Effectiveness of furfural as an organic inhibitor in 5 percent hydrochloric acid which is used in acid pickling of steel was evaluated. Lungmuir, Frumkin and Flory-Huggins isotherms [1, 2] were used to determine the parameters of effective adsorption, free energy and entropy of adsorption. Furfural indicated an inhibition less than 17 percent in concentrations of 0.001 mole per liter for a dura...

We present a three dimensional model for the Milky Way fit to the farinfrared (FIR) and near-infrared (NIR) data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument for galactic latitudes |b| < 30 degrees and to within 20 degrees of the Galactic center. Because of the low optical depth at 240μm, the FIR emission traces the distribution of Galactic dust in the Galaxy. We model the dust distribution as due to three c...