Using global satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations, swell systems are confirmed to travel over very large distances across ocean basins. Satellite observations can provide a global view of swell systems when using a specific ”wave mode” sampling. The data are gathered globally and systematically, but the SAR-derived peak wavelength and directional parameters are restricted to th...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the radiographic, anatomic, and histologic characteristics of the nasal septal swell body. DESIGN Computer-aided analysis of magnetic resonance images (MRIs) and histologic examination of cadaveric nasal septa. SETTING Tertiary medical center. PATIENTS Fifty-four head MRI studies were performed on adult live patients; we also used 10 cadaveric nasal septa. MAIN OUTC...

Several proteins belonging to the ATP-binding cassette superfamily can affect ion channel function. These include the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, the sulfonylurea receptor, and the multidrug resistance protein P-glycoprotein (MDR1). We measured whole cell swelling-activated Cl- currents ( I Cl,swell) in parental cells and cells expressing wild-type MDR1 or a phosphoryla...

Global observations of ocean swell, from satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data, are used to estimate the dissipation of swell energy for a number of storms. Swells can be very persistent with energy e-folding scales exceeding 20,000 km. For increasing swell steepness this scale shrinks systematically, down to 2800 km for the steepest observed swells, revealing a significant loss of swell ener...

The dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is an important device for coping with sag, swell, and unbalance. However, it a real-time mechanism must operate as quickly possible to protect the sensitive critical load from supply-side anomalies. Hence, fast detection of disturbances reference generation essential DVR. This paper proposes simple disturbance approach based on three-phase phasor diagram whic...

The recent trend of distributed generation leads to several issues regarding power quality and energy efficiency. To meet the increased demand of electricity services and to increase service quality the current power grid structure should be controlled in such a way that distributed generation could be easily connected to it. The various services are becoming challenging concern to elegantly in...

The swell propagation model built on geometric optics is known to work well when simulating radiated swells from a far located storm. Based on this simple approximation, satellites have acquired plenty of large samples on basin-traversing swells induced by fierce storms situated in mid-latitudes. How to routinely reconstruct swell fields with these irregularly sampled observations from space vi...

AIMS Because ceramide accumulates in several forms of cardiovascular disease and ceramide-induced apoptosis may involve the volume-sensitive Cl(-) current, I(Cl,swell), we assessed whether ceramide activates I(Cl,swell). METHODS AND RESULTS I(Cl,swell) was measured in rabbit ventricular myocytes by whole-cell patch clamp after isolating anion currents. Exogenous C(2)-ceramide (C(2)-Cer), a me...

Unified power quality conditioners (UPQCs) allow the mitigation of voltage and current disturbances that could affect sensitive electrical loads while compensating the load reactive power. This paper deals with unified power quality conditioner (UPQC), which aims at the integration of Series-active and shunt-active power filters. The main purpose of a UPQC is to compensate for voltage Imbalance...

An edge-colored graph is said to be swell-colored if each triangle contains exactly 1 or 3 colors but never 2 colors and if the graph contains more than one color. It is shown that a swell-colored complete graph with n vertices contains at least √ n + 1 colors. The complete graph with n 2 vertices has a swell coloring using n + 1 colors if and only if there exists a finite affine plane of order...