It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. The problems start even before you're fully awake. There's the fall out of bed that kills 600 Americans each year. There's the early-morning heart attack, which is 40% more common than those that strike later in the day. There's the fatal plunge down the stairs, the bite of sausage that get...

One of the lesser-known adverse effects of antipsychotic medication is hypothermia, a signifi cant and protracted plunge in body temperature. Known risk factors are older age and exposure to a newfor-the-person antipsychotic drug. Hypothermia impairs cognitive function, often resulting in a delirium that can paradoxically induce the prescription of escalating doses of the offending drug. As hyp...

TEM has been most frequently used for the evaluation of morphology, size, composition and ultrastructure of colloidal delivery carriers, such as nanoparticles (NPs), liposomes, lipoproteins and polymer-based colloids [1, 2]. Increasingly complex systems have been developed for targeted delivery, sustained release formulations and even drug tracing after administration [3], leading to more chall...

A small 4-cavity assembly designed to operate at W-band was built using OFE copper parts machined by wire and plunge EDM proocesses. The machined pieces were then diffusion bonded together. A cutaway section of one the cavity modules is shown in figure 1. Each of the four cavities approximates a one-half guided wavelength at 90 Ghz of reduced height WR 10 waveguide coupled to full height WR10 w...

We report the first image of an intact, frozen hydrated eukaryotic cell using x-ray diffraction microscopy, or coherent x-ray diffraction imaging. By plunge freezing the specimen in liquid ethane and maintaining it below -170 degrees C, artifacts due to dehydration, ice crystallization, and radiation damage are greatly reduced. In this example, coherent diffraction data using 520 eV x rays were...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the trends of the dynamic behavior of a single iced conductor. Attention is focused not only on the initiation of galloping but also on boundaries where a periodic plunge or torsional motion emerge. Trends with respect to the iced conductor’s eccentricity and its inertia to mass ratio are particularly stressed. They are shown to be complicated becau...

Earth scientists have always been interested in the description and analysis of surfaces, particularly those which serve to describe mapped data. The methods used in this context fall into two categories, written descriptions (using terms such as dip, strike, plunge, isoclinal folding, attitude of axial plane, iaiiation etc.1 and mathematical approximations. To overcome the inadequacies of verb...

Although there have been a very limited number of cases of defl ation in a developed country, one such case occurred in the United States during the Great Depression in the 1930s, where an annualized 7% price plunge was observed. Compared to this, the present defl ation in Japan can be considered as a moderate price decline continuing over a very long period. The fact that defl ation has not be...

The plunge-merger stage of the binary-black hole coalescence, when bodies' velocities reach a large fraction speed light and gravitational-wave luminosity peaks, provides unique opportunity to probe gravity in dynamical nonlinear regime. How much do predictions general relativity differ from ones other theories for this binary evolution? To address question, we develop parametrized waveform mod...