Australian vegetation is fire-prone. Every year, wet and dry sclerophyll forests of Western Australia, southeastern Australia and grassland ecosystems of the northern part of the continent are subject to high intensity fires. The sclerophyll vegetation contains up to 2.71 % of the element potassium. The element exists in plants’ organic matrix: attached to the oxygencontaining and carboxyl func...

The free Modelica library THERMOFLUID (see [2] and [11]) was developed for simulation of thermohydraulic applications, both for single-species applications like the water-steam cycle in a thermal power plant and for multi-species applications with gas mixtures. It has demonstrated its flexibility for modeling thermodynamic and process applications in a variety of industrial and academic project...

The physiological pyrimidine nucleoside thymidine (dThd) is cytotoxic to normal and neoplastic cells in culture that are exposed to concentrations in excess of 1 ITÃŒM for prolonged periods. In order to explore the antileukemic potential of the compound, we have treated six patients with relapsed leukemia or lymphoma with marrow and blood involvement, by prolonged infusions of dThd, at dosages ...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background. Myocardial work (MW) is a new imaging technique to assess left ventricular (LV) systolic function. It incorporates both deformation parameters (global longitudinal strain -GLS-) and loading conditions gives information on global constructive (GCW), wasted (GWW), LV myocardial index (GWI) efficiency (GWE). Purpose. The a...

Abstract Introduction Abnormal GLS values as well high plasma levels of NT-proBNP previous to TAVR are independent predictors for higher peri-procedural mortality. Moreover, in a subgroup patients LV function does not recover following the procedure. Until today, it is still unclear how predict impaired post-procedural optimal clinical patient's management. Purpose This study was set up assess ...

Thework is concerned with the two critical frequencies that are associated withthe visual observation of a moving, spatially periodic pattern. Data are given for thedependence of these frequencies upon the input parameters of the stimulus (e.g. spatialperiod, and area). On the basis of these data, it is concluded that the system has features incommon with the known optomotor...

This study investigates the relation of non-invasive myocardial work and viability following ST-segment elevation infarction (STEMI) assessed on late gadolinium contrast enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE CMR) characterizes remote zone using parameters. STEMI patients who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were included. Several parameters derived from speckle trac...

A variant cell line (UV-2237-ADMR) resistant to the anthracycline antibiotic Adriamycin (doxorubicin) was selected in vitro from the murine UV-2237 fibrosarcoma tumor cell line. Resis tance to Adriamycin proved to be a stable characteristic of the UV-2237-ADMR line, whether the line was grown in vivo or in vitro. The UV-2237-ADMR line also exhibited increased resistance to A/-trifluoroacetyladr...

This paper seeks to model determining factors in international migration from 1999-2006. By accounting for relevant variables, the paper aims to elicit the effect of several non-economic factors and their impact on an individual’s decision to relocate. After replicating past literature to legitimize my newly constructed dataset, I add a number of qualitative features, such as a common spoken la...

By the relational realist interpretation of wave function collapse, the quantum mechanical actualization of potentia is defined as a decoherence-driven process by which each actualization (in “orthodox” terms, each measurement outcome) is conditioned both by physical and logical relations with the actualities conventionally demarked as “environmental” or external to that particular outcome. But...