Mice have been widely used in immunologic and other research to study the influence of different diseases on the lungs. However, the respiratory mechanical properties of the mouse are not clear. This study extended the methodology of measuring respiratory mechanics of anesthetized rats and guinea pigs and applied it to the mouse. First, we performed static pressure-volume and maximal expiratory...

In this paper we propose an energy efficient cooperative MIMO system. Space-time block codes (STBC) and code combining techniques are applied to utilize the inherent spatial diversity in wireless cooperative MIMO systems. We form a group of senders and receivers to provide higher order MIMO diversity and implement our STBC scheme in a distributed manner. In the receiving group, code combining i...

Precoding for transmission over channels with interference known at the transmitter is reviewed. In contrast to what is usually discussed in literature, precoding employing higher-dimensional lattice quantization for generating the transmit signal is assessed. It is shown that thereby the gap between low-complexity schemes using scalar modulo reductions and theoretical asymptotic results assumi...

Serving as one key component of the most important lifeline infrastructure system, transmission towers are vulnerable to multiple nature hazards including strong wind and could pose severe threats to the power system security with possible blackouts under extreme weather conditions, such as hurricanes, derechoes, or winter storms. For the security and resiliency of the power system, it is impor...

Vectorial capacity is a measure of the transmission potential of a vector borne pathogen within a susceptible population. Vector competence, a component of the vectorial capacity equation, is the ability of an arthropod to transmit an infectious agent following exposure to that agent. Comparisons of arbovirus strain-specific vector competence estimates have been used to support observed or hypo...

the aim of the present work is to prepare an adsorption package to simulate adsorption / desorption operation for both single and multi-component systems in an isothermal condition by different mechanisms such as; local adsorption theory and mass transfer resistance (rigorous and approximated methods). different mass transfer resistance mechanisms of pore, solid and bidispersed diffusion, toget...

reference curves are useful tools to monitor children’s growth status and can promote growth velocity in infants. in this regard, various parametric and semi-parametric methods are frequently used in the last decades. in the present paper, nonparametric quintile regression method is used as a powerful and applicable methodology to estimate height curves and normal values of height-for-age in ch...

Bladder capacity in children can be estimated accurately by using the formula: Bladder capacity jowmsj = age (yean) + 2. The increased application ofurodynamics to children has created a number of technical and interpretive problems not the least of which is a simplified age-adjusted standard for normalcy. Material and Methods In an attempt to formulate an estimate of ageadjusted normal values ...

past earthquakes have demonstrated that old rc bridges may be seismically vulnerable. bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. in this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in iran are studied. push over and nonlinear ...

fertilizer plant waste carbon slurry has been investigated after some processing as an adsorbent for the removal of dyes and phenols using columns. the results show that the carbonaceous adsorbent prepared from carbon slurry being porous and having appreciable surface area (380 m2/g) can remove dyes both cationic (meldola blue, methylene blue, chrysoidine g, crystal violet) as well as anionic (...