The rostral brainstem of the harbor seal Phoca vitulina was cooled and heated 33-41 degrees C while oxygen consumption and rectal, hypothalamic, flipper and dorsal skin temperatures were measured. These experiments were made on restrained seals at ambient temperatures -15 to 30 degrees C. Cooling the preoptic and hypothalamic (POH) tissue increased oxygen consumption in a way that could be appr...

The gas exchange ratio (R) represents the ratio of carbon dioxide output to oxygen uptake by the lungs. In the steady state it also represents the ratio of carbon dioxide produced by the tissues to tissue oxygen consumption—the RQ. When this exchange is presented on an oxygen/carbon dioxide diagram (Rahn and Fenn, 1955) it is plotted in terms of fractional concentrations (or tensions) to produc...

The performance evaluation of dewarping techniques is currently addressed by concentrating in visual pleasing impressions or by using optical character recognition (OCR) as a means for indirect evaluation. In this study, the authors present a performance evaluation methodology that calculates a comprehensive evaluation measure which reflects the entire performance of a dewarping technique in a ...

In this paper, a novel exemplar-based completion model which is used to remove objects from natural image and texture image is proposed. Firstly the model selects a dynamic size of exemplar based on the local texture information. Secondly, the filling order of exemplar is determined by a cross-isophote diffusion data item. The data item is the result of partial differential equation (PDE) which...

Two dimensional slope profile morphometric investigation in a part of the land failure prone Garhwal region of the Lesser Himalaya, Tehri district, U. P., India, indicates that the landslip morphology is closely related to the dominant movement processes active in this terrain. Technique developed for the morphometric analysis of landslips involves the use of five morphometric indices. Each ind...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical role of noncontact, low-frequency ultrasound therapy (MIST Therapy System; Celleration, Eden Prairie, Minnesota) in the treatment of chronic lower-extremity wounds. DESIGN A retrospective observational study. SETTING A multidisciplinary, vascular wound-healing clinic. PATIENTS One hundred sixty-three patients who received MIST Therapy plus standard of ca...