To determine if changes in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure could be determined from the pulmonary blood volume (PBV) ratio response on exercise-gated blood pool images, 42 patients had simultaneous exercise-gated blood pool imaging and hemodynamic monitoring during cardiac catheterization. Nine patients were normal and 33 patients had cardiac disease. Changes in the PBV ratio were determined...

Exact inviscid theory is applied to a simple lifting configuration consisting of a wedge beneath a plane wing, both the wedge and the wing being terminated by a trailing edge which lies along a Mach cone. The efficiency of such an arrangement is compared with the efficiency of a wedge producing lift directly through incidence, as in the Nonweiler wing. The comparison is favourable to the interf...

Mount St Helens is the most active volcano within the Cascade arc; however, its location is unusual because it lies 50 km west of the main axis of arc volcanism. Subduction zone thermal models indicate that the down-going slab is decoupled from the overriding mantle wedge beneath the forearc, resulting in a cold mantle wedge that is unlikely to generate melt. Consequently, the forearc location ...

The specific aim of this study was to quantify muscle activity while performing squat with technique variations. Eight healthy volunteers performed squats under 5 types of foot positions: neutral position, under a 10o descending wedge, under a 10o ascending wedge, under a 10o medial wedge and under a 10o lateral wedge. It was evaluated electromyographic data of vastus medialis oblique, vastus l...

[Purpose] This study compared the hamstring/quadriceps ratio in females during squat exercise using various foot wedges. [Subjects and Methods] Nine females participated in this study. Surface electrodes measurements were taken over the hamstring and quadriceps under 3 squat exercise conditions, and the hamstring/quadriceps ratio was calculated. [Results] The hamstring/quadriceps ratio was sign...

A line-focus ultrasonic SH-wave probe is developed for possible application to TOFD method. The probe is composed of a quarteror half-cylindrical wedge and a piezoelectric transducer adhered to the cylindrical surface of the wedge. An SH-wave pulse with cylindrical wave front is generated by the transducer, transmitted to the wedge, and focused on a line at the bottom surface of the wedge. Henc...

We systematically reviewed the published literature on the complications of closing wedge high tibial osteotomy for the treatment of unicompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee. Publications were identified using the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE, EMBASE and CINAHL databases up to February 2012. We assessed randomised (RCTs), controlled group clinical (CCTs) trials, case series in publications asso...

Use of neural networks (NNs) and diffraction pattern sampling by a ring-wedge detector leads to easier and faster algorithms for pattern recognition. An estimation was made of the optimum dimensions of a digital ring-wedge detector for sampling Fourier transform of random matrices through simulation of digital ring-wedge detector. The modulus squared Fourier transforms of facial images were sam...

Rotational Supercavitating Evaporator (RSCE) has been proposed as a new technology for seawater desalination. However, it lacks systematic researches on the blade shape of RSCE. In this paper, numerical simulations were conducted on the supercavities formed behind two-dimensional (2D) wedge-shaped cavitators of the RSCE. The cavitating flows around the 2D wedge-shaped cavitators with several ce...

The title of our research paper is “Analysis of Incompressible fluid flow over wedge with different angles”. The basic objective of this research work is to optimize the fluid flow over different wedges and it angles. The optimization is done by varying wedge angle, its parameters considering fluid flow parameters also. The analysis of wedge is carried out in both 3D and 2D from which various r...