This paper presents the development of the low cost liquid pump. The rotary compressor developed as the gas compressor for the residential air-conditioner was converted into the liquid refrigerant pump. Problems of the liquid refrigerant pump are the reliability assessment of sliding parts and the reduction of the noise generated by discharge pulsation in this development. Therefore some modifi...

Pharmacological manipulation of fatty acid metabolism in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) alters energy balance and glucose homeostasis. Thus, we tested the hypotheses that distinctive populations of ARC neurons are oleic-acid (OA) sensors that exhibit a glucose dependency, independent of whether some of these OA sensors are also glucose sensing neurons. We used patch clamp recordings to ...

Atmospheric pressure plasmas have shown great promise for the treatment of wounds and cancerous tumors. In these applications, the sample is usually covered by a thin layer of a biological liquid. The reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) generated by the plasma activate and are processed by the liquid before the plasma produced activation reaches the tissue. The synergy between the plasm...

Diffuse discharge opening switches usually operate with gas mixtures containing attachers when short opening times are desired. For arc free discharge 1nitiation, a preionization source should produce a sufficient electron density at the time when the voltage rises across the discharge. Therefore, a preionizer must have 1) a short rise and fall time, 2) sufficient power, and 3) a sufficiently p...