PURPOSE Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) is a rehabilitation therapy for stable patients with COPD. However, its therapeutic effect remains undefined due to the unclear nature of diaphragmatic mobilization during IMT. Diaphragmatic mobilization, represented by transdiaphragmatic pressure (Pdi), and neural respiratory drive, expressed as the corrected root mean square (RMS) of the diaphragmatic...

This paper describes a neural implementation of the resistive grid technique for route finding. The resistive grid, or Laplacian planning technique, is not plagued by local minima problems and guaranties and existing route to be found. The neural network comprises 2 layers. In the upper layer, lateral connections between neurons communicate information on the potentials of neighbouring nodes in...

Hepatorenal failure, a well-recognized complication of established liver disease, is characterized by early renal hemodynamic changes (vasoconstriction) before clinically recognized kidney disease. This renal vasoconstriction (increased renal vascular resistance) should be detectable noninvasively by Doppler ultrasonography. We studied whether renal Doppler ultrasonography detects abnormalities...

BACKGROUND Perioperative hypothermia is common during anesthesia and surgery and is accompanied by several complications. Forced-air warming is recognized as an effective procedure to prevent hypothermia. The aim of this study was to compare a resistive heating device with a forced-air warming device. METHODS Prospective randomized trial. SETTING heat transfer laboratory of a University hos...

A resistive control strategy to optimize pneumatic power for a floating OWC device is presented. This strategy utilizes a linear, frequency-domain performance model that links an oscillating structure to air-pressure fluctuations with a Wells Turbine in 3-dimensions. An array of field points defining the interior free surface allows hydrodynamic parameters relating to the fluctuating air-pressu...

Electromagnetic scattering is considered from finite and electrically large perfectly conducting rough surfaces. Three solution approaches are considered. The first two are based on a multi-level fast-multipole algorithm (MLFMA) formulation. In one MLFMA approach the rough surface resides in free space and is terminated by a resistive taper. In the second MLFMA approach the rough surface is ter...

A striking universality in the electric-field-driven resistive switching is shown in three prototypical narrow-gap Mott systems. This model, based on key theoretical features of the Mott phenomenon, reproduces the general behavior of this resistive switching and demonstrates that it can be associated with a dynamically directed avalanche. This model predicts non-trivial accumulation and relaxat...

Here, we propose an effective method for improving the resistive switching characteristics of solution-processed gallium-doped zinc oxide (GaZnO(x)) resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices using hydrogen peroxide. Our results imply that solution processed GaZnO(x) RRAM devices could be one of the candidates for the development of low cost RRAM.

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) had received great amount of attention from various research efforts in recent years, owing to its promising performance as a next generation memory device. In this paper, samples based on TiN/HfOx/Pt stack were prepared and its electrical switching behaviors were characterized and discussed in brief. Keywords—HfOx, resistive switching, RRAM.

The swimming of a bacterium or a biomimetic nanobot driven by a rotating helical flagellum is often interpreted using the resistive force theory developed by Gray and Hancock and by Lighthill, but this theory has not been tested for a range of physically relevant parameters. We test resistive force theory in experiments on macroscopic swimmers in a fluid that is highly viscous so the Reynolds n...