All eight stages of a stimulation protocol that used one then two extrastimuli from the right ventricular apex in sinus rhythm and three ventricular drive rates (100, 120, and 140 beats/min) were performed in 24 patients with recurrent spontaneous sustained ventricular tachycardia despite drug treatment. Twenty two of the patients had sustained a previous myocardial infarct and 18 were on long ...

T HE PENETRATION of capillary walls by water and dissolved substances appears to take place solely by processes which require no energy transformations on the part of the capillary endothelial cells. The rate of net fluid movement across the capillary wall has been shown to be simply proportional to the difference between hydrostatic and osmotic forces acting across the capillary membranes (I, ...

This paper proposes a novel fault-tolerant disk subsystem named Zoned-RAID (Z-RAID). Z-RAID improves the performance of traditional RAID system by utilizing the zoning property of modern disks which provides multiple zones with different data transfer rates in a disk. This study proposes to optimize data transfer rate of RAID system by constraining placement of data blocks in multi-zone disks. ...

We present a method to determine the effective capillary pressure and permeability of column packed with granular material by means imbibition experiments using closed measuring both liquid uptake differential that develops ahead front. The is based on finding an intermediate range values, where Washburn approximation no longer valid but recently obtained description accurately reproduces exper...

To obtain a good tracking performance in an optical disk drive servo system, it is essential to attenuate periodic disturbances caused by eccentric rotation of the disk. As an effective control scheme for enhancing disturbance attenuation performance, disturbance observers (DOBs) have been successfully applied to the track-following servo system of optical disk drives. In disk drive systems, th...

Rain can enter only if a combination of the following three conditions are present: rain water deposited on the wall, holes and cracks offering water leakage paths inwards and a force or a combination of forces to drive water inwards. Strategies for rain penetration control must entail the control of one or more of these contributing factors. Various approaches to rain penetration control are c...

T HE PENETRATION of capillary walls by water and dissolved substances appears to take place solely by processes which require no energy transformations on the part of the capillary endothelial cells. The rate of net fluid movement across the capillary wall has been shown to be simply proportional to the difference between hydrostatic and osmotic forces acting across the capillary membranes (I, ...

Abstract: We present the optimization of the manufacturing process of the 5nm bulk-FinFET technology by using the 3D process and device simulations. In this paper, bysimulating the manufacturing processes, we focus on optimizing the manufacturingprocess to improve the drive current of the 5nm FinFET. The improvement of drivecurrent is one of the most important issues in ...

Since active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are directly related to human health, monitoring and quantifying them in the environment is a crucial challenging issue. Using capillary-zone electrophoresis (CZE), four frequently used fluoroquinolones (FQs), ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, were efficiently isolated measured industrial wastewater. Solid-phase extraction (S...