Retamal Montes, J. 2016. Aspects on ventilation induced stress and strain on regional and global inflammation in experimental acute respiratory distress syndrome. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1235. 64 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9612-8. Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a life-saving therapy in acute respirat...

The collapse of massive stars not only produces observable outbursts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum but, for Galactic (or near-Galactic) supernovae, detectable signals for ground-based neutrino and gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational waves and neutrinos provide the only means to study the actual engine behind the optical outbursts: the collapsed stellar core. While the neutr...

Cave collapses emerge during the process of oil reservoir development, seriously affecting oil production. To reveal the collapse and failure mechanism of the carbonate cavern with a buried depth of 5600 m in Tahe Oil Field, using a self-developed ultra-high pressure model test system with the intelligent numerical control function, the model simulation material of carbonate rocks developed to ...

Numerical simulations of sawteeth in tokamaks have been carried out using reduced magnetohydrodynamics and a simple transport model. The electron temperature is evolved self-consistently, including Ohmic heating and a highly anisotropic thermal diffusivity. The sawtooth period and collapse time found in the simulations for Lundquist numbers S below 10 compare favourably with experimental result...

Habitat fragmentation is the primary cause of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but its underlying processes and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Studies of islands and insular terrestrial habitats are essential for improving our understanding of habitat fragmentation. We argue that the Three-Gorges Dam, the largest that humans have ever created, presents a unique grand-scale...

This paper is motivated by the following two related problems in complex networks: (i) control of cascading failures and (ii) mitigation of traffic congestion. Both problems are of significant recent interest as they address, respectively, the security of and efficient information transmission on complex networks. Taking into account typical features of load distribution and weights in real-wor...

Analytic techniques for predicting onset of voltage collapse in power systems often rely upon identification of a saddle node bifurcation. While many authors acknowledge that the separation between voltage phenomena and phase angle phenomena is far from absolute, most recent works have viewed voltage variation as the more significant problem. The goal of the work presented here is to shift focu...

We study the exact solutions of the cascade three-level atom interacting with a single mode classical and quantized field with different initial conditions of the atom. For the semiclassical model, it is found that if the atom is initially in the middle level, the time dependent populations of the upper and lower levels are always equal. This dynamical symmetry exhibited by the classical field ...