The stellar core formation and high speed jets driven by the formed core are studied by using three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) nested grid simulations. Starting with a Bonnor-Ebert isothermal cloud rotating in a uniform magnetic field, we calculate the cloud evolution from the molecular cloud core (nc = 10 6 cm, rc = 4.6×10 4 AU) to the stellar core (nc ≃ 10 23 cm, rc ≃ 1...

Respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) can be used to obtain a valid measure of tidal volume in humans. This device also compares the contributions to ventilation of the thorax and abdomen. Although thoracoabdominal asynchrony is a prominent clinical feature for patients with airway obstruction, the accuracy of the RIP device to assess the severity of obstruction is unclear. This study ana...

Patients with heart failure (HF) display numerous derangements in ventilatory function, which together serve to increase the work of breathing (W(b)) during exercise. However, the extent to which the resistive and elastic properties of the respiratory system contribute to the higher W(b) in these patients is unknown. We quantified the resistive and elastic W(b) in patients with stable HF (n = 9...

Strong interest in resistive switching phenomena is driven by a possibility to develop electronic devices with novel functional properties not available in conventional systems. Bistable resistive devices are characterized by two resistance states that can be switched by an external voltage. Recently, memristors-electric circuit elements with continuously tunable resistive behavior-have emerged...

Introduction An n-port resistive network is an n-port circuit consisting of only passive resistors, which is an important class of passive networks. An n-port resistive network is usually characterized by its impedance or admittance matrix. Since there are no reactive elements, passivity and reciprocity imply that the impedance and admittance matrices of n-port resistive networks must be nonneg...

Improved resistive switching memory characteristics by controlling the formation polarity in an IrOx/Al2O3/IrOx-ND/Al2O3/WOx/W structure have been investigated. High density of 1 × 1013/cm2 and small size of 1.3 nm in diameter of the IrOx nano-dots (NDs) have been observed by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The IrOx-NDs, Al2O3, and WOx layers are confirmed by X-ray photo-elect...

We measured the resistance in nine complete ventilator circuits, partial circuits and 7, 8, and 9 mm ID endotracheal tubes at flow rates of 20 to 120 liters per minute. We found a statistically significant (p less than 0.01) increase in resistive pressure with increases in flow rate, as the diameter of the ETT decreased, and as each component of the ventilator circuit was added to the ETT. Ther...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of antihypertensive drugs in essential hypertension and in the central retinal, posterior ciliary, and ophthalmic arteries by using Doppler sonography. METHODS Thirty patients with essential hypertension and 32 control subjects were enrolled in the study. The pulsatility and resistive indices were evaluated in the central retinal, posterior ciliary, and ophthalmi...

BACKGROUND Subclinical renal damage and hyperuricemia are not uncommon in patients with primary hypertension. Whether mild hyperuricemia reflects a subclinical impairment of renal function or contributes to its development is currently debated. We investigated the relationship between serum uric-acid levels and the occurrence of early signs of kidney damage. METHODS Four hundred eighteen pati...

To extend the range of high-temperature, high-pressure studies within the diamond anvil cell, a Liermann-type diamond anvil cell with radial diffraction geometry (rDAC) was redesigned and developed for synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments at beamline 12.2.2 of the Advanced Light Source. The rDAC, equipped with graphite heating arrays, allows simultaneous resistive and laser heating while t...