An impulse oscillometry system (IOS) assesses pulmonary resistance and reactance. The present study investigated which IOS measurement is correlated with airflow obstruction, airway conductance and lung volume in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A total of 180 patients with COPD were selected and 95 agreed to follow‑up 1 year after the initial tests. IOS measurements [R5, R20, X5 a...

A hometown is the place to which an individual has affective bond resulting from either being born there or living for lived a long time. This article investigates people's intention support revival of tourism in their hometowns post-COVID-19. The research hypothesises that individuals are affected by threat ontological security, freedom movement, and information, this synthetic will affect hom...

Recent studies suggest climate change consensus messages may cause psychological reactance for conservatives. However, it remains unknown how much this impacts the effectiveness of messaging. Using data from a recent meta-analysis on interventions, current paper seeks to add context debate over reactance. We integrated 20 experiments (N = 19,200 participants) that test (compared control conditi...

Electronic control of microwave antennas and circuits is usually based on the use of reverse biased semiconductor junctions. Optical control of such circuits has been by directly illuminating the active (depletion) regions of the semiconductor junctions. In this paper we report indirect optical control of microwave antennas and circuits using a photovoltaic array that generates a light dependen...

This study investigates the impact of hyperlink affordance, psychological reactance, perceived loss of freedom, perceived business tie between sites, and trust in source site, on trust in target site. Hyperlink affordance represents the extent that the Web encourages users’ behavior. Perceived loss of freedom is based on psychological reactance, which refers to the extent that users react to hy...

BACKGROUND Interstitial lung disease often occurs as an early complication of systemic sclerosis (SSc). The aim was to investigate whether impulse oscillometry (IOS) could be used to evaluate lung impairment in SSc. METHODS Seventy-eight SSc patients, of which 65 had limited cutaneous SSc (lcSSc) and 13 had diffuse cutaneous SSc (dcSSc), were subjected to high-resolution computed tomography (...

Airway distensibility appears to be unaffected by airway smooth muscle (ASM) tone, despite the influence of ASM tone on the airway diameter-pressure relationship. This discrepancy may be because the greatest effect of ASM tone on airway diameter-pressure behavior occurs at low transpulmonary pressures, i.e., low lung volumes, which has not been investigated. Our study aimed to determine the con...