Fluid management in patients following blast injury is a major challenge. Fluid overload can exacerbate pulmonary dysfunction, whereas suboptimal resuscitation may exacerbate tissue damage. In three patients, we compared three methods of assessing volume status: central venous (CVP) and pulmonary artery occlusion (PAOP) pressures, left ventricular end-diastolic area (LVEDA) as measured by trans...

This paper analyses the operation of an adaptive neurofuzzy inference system (ANFIS)-based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for solar photovoltaic (SPV) energy generation system. The MPPT works on the principle of adjusting the voltage of the SPV modules by changing the duty ratio of the Quasi-zsource inverter. The duty ratio of the inverter is calculated for a given solar irradiance and tem...

The spv region of Salmonella virulence plasmids is essential for the development of a systemic infection in mice. Transcriptional activation of the spvABCD operon occurs during stationary growth phase and is mediated by the regulatory gene product SpvR. We have previously shown that expression of a spvRAB'-cat fusion in Escherichia coli was dependent on the katF (rpoS) locus which encodes an al...

Enhancement in solar energy (SE) injection into the power system network creates quality (PQ) issues supply. This article presents an approach supported by Stockwell transform ( $S$ -transform) for assessment of PQ related with grid int...

<p class="MDPI17abstract"><span lang="EN-US">A conventional DC-DC converter is not viable for power conditioning in standalone solar photovoltaic applications. Switching losses are the primary reason poor performance of converters. To mitigate issues converters, a high efficient gain (HEHG) designed and developed this research work. Modified HEHG utilizes passive components switched...

Understanding the transport of photogenerated charge carriers in semiconductors is crucial for applications photovoltaics, optoelectronics, and photo-detectors. While recent experimental studies using scanning ultrafast electron microscopy (SUEM) have demonstrated that local change secondary emission induced by photoexcitation enables direct visualization photocarrier dynamics space time, origi...

Various α(2,3) subtype selective partial GABA-A agonists are in development to treat anxiety disorders. These compounds are expected to be anxiolytic with fewer undesirable side effects, compared to nonselective GABA-A agonists like benzodiazepines. Several α(2,3) subtype selective and nonselective GABA-A agonists have been examined in healthy volunteers, using a battery addressing different br...

We develop a Bayesian multiple changepoint model to infer spatial phylogenetic variation (SPV) along aligned molecular sequence data. SPV occurs in sequences from organisms that have undergone biological recombination or when evolutionary rates and selective pressures vary along the sequences. This Bayesian approach permits estimation of uncertainty regarding recombination, the crossing-over lo...

Self-assembled donor-acceptor dyads are used as model nanostructured heterojunctions for local investigations by noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). With the aim to probe the photo-induced charge carrier generation, thin films deposited on transparent indium tin oxide substrates are investigated in dark conditions and upon illumination. The topo...

In most current vision prosthesis designs, head movement is the sole director of visual gaze and scanning due to the head-mounted nature of the camera. Study of this unnatural behaviour may provide insight into improved prosthesis designs and rehabilitation procedures. In this paper, we conducted a psychophysical study to investigate the characteristics of head movements of normally sighted sub...