A review is presented covering the latest contributions to the slow viscoelastic flow past solid spheres and bubbles. The existing theoretical approaches are reviewed together with the available numerical methods. The proximity of container walls and its effect upon the motion of a sphere is also considered. Emphasis has been made on presenting recent experimental and numerical work intended to...

To minimize emittance growth in a long linac, it is necessary to control the wakefields by correcting the beam orbit excursions. In addition, the particle energy is made to vary along the length of the bunch to introduce a damping, known as the BNS damping, to the beam break-up effect. In this paper, we use a two-particle model to examine the relative magnitudes of the various orbit and dispers...

The circadian sleep-wake rhythm changes with aging, resulting in a more fragmented sleep-wake pattern. In individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID), brain structures regulating the sleep-wake rhythm might be affected. The aims of this study were to compare the sleep-wake rhythm of older adults with ID to that of older adults in the general population, and to investigate which factors are ...

Background: Almost 25% of all acute ischemic strokes occur during sleep with the patients or relatives become aware of the neurological deficits as they wake up. The present study was conducted with an aim to find out the prevalence of wakeup stroke along with clinical profile and outcome of wake up stroke as compared to non-wake up stroke. Methods: All patients of age group 18 years or more pr...

Recent work in experimental neurophysiology has identified distinct neuronal populations in the rodent brain stem and hypothalamus that selectively promote wake and sleep. Mutual inhibition between these cell groups has suggested the conceptual model of a sleep-wake switch that controls transitions between wake and sleep while minimizing time spent in intermediate states. By combining wake- and...

1 (Oral/Poster) MULTICELLULAR HUMAN TESTICULAR ORGANOID: A NOVEL IN VITRO GERM CELL AND TESTICULAR TOXICITY MODEL Samuel Pendergraft, MS1, Hooman Sadri-Ardekani, MD, PhD2, Tanya Reid, BS3, Anthony Atala, MD2 and Colin Bishop, PhD1 1(1) Molecular Medicine and Translational Science Graduate Program, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC (2) Wake Forest Institute for Regenerati...

This paper shows that the turbulent velocity profile for zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers is affected by the wall shear stress and convective inertia. The effect of the wall shear stress is dominant in the so-called overlap region and can be described by a logarithmic law in which the von Karman constant is about 0.4 while the additive constant depends on a Reynolds number. The effect of ...

OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) WITH DAYTIME HYPERSOMNOLENCE IS PRESENT IN AT LEAST 12 MILLION ADULTS IN THE UNITED STATES.1 TWO THIRDS of adults with OSA complain of significant sleepiness and/or fatigue at presentation.2 Yet, therapies may not fully reverse hypersomnolence.3-6 Thus, residual sleepiness in adults treated for OSA is a significant health concern. Adult male mice exposed to hypoxia...

The secondary instabilities in the wake of a circular cylinder with near-wake wire disturbances are investigated by using threedimensional (3D) direct numerical simulations (DNS). For one wire placed asymmetrical about the wake centreline and two wires placed symmetrical about the wake centreline, the secondary instabilities are found to be Mode C and Mode A, respectively. The existence of the ...

Purpose. To examine the effects of acupuncture on sleep quality and on emotional measures among patients with schizophrenia. Methods. Twenty patients with schizophrenia participated in the study. The study comprised a seven-day running-in no-treatment period, followed by an eight-week experimental period. During the experimental period, participants were treated with acupuncture twice a week. D...