Characteristics of tidal breathing (TB) relate to lung function and may be assessed even in young children. Thus far, the accuracy of impedance pneumography (IP) in recording TB flows in young children with or without bronchial obstruction has not been evaluated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the agreement between IP and direct flow measurement with pneumotachograph (PNT) in assessing T...

Since predictions of scalar dispersion in small estuaries can rarely be predicted accurately, new field measurements were conducted continuously at relatively high frequency for up to 50 h per investigation in a small subtropical estuary with semidiurnal tides. The bulk flow parameters varied in time with periods comparable to tidal cycles and other large-scale processes. The turbulence propert...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate: 1) whether tidal flow patterns can be used to discriminate between children with asthma and those without respiratory illness; and 2) whether reversibility to salbutamol in young children can be detected by tidal breathing analysis? Lung function was measured by tidal flow-volume loops (SensorMedics 2600) in 26 awake young children (13 males)...

To better understand the influence of stress changes over floating ice shelves on grounded ice streams, we develop a Bayesian method for inferring time-dependent 3-D surface velocity fields from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical remote sensing data. Our specific goal is to observe ocean tide-induced variability in vertical ice shelf position and horizontal ice stream flow. Thus, we con...

The value of the continuous monitoring of end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration as an indicator of the acute intraoperative interruption of pulmonary blood flow, in patients with pre-existing restrictions of pulmonary blood flow undergoing closed heart surgery, is illustrated by two case reports. Decreases in end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration often appeared several minutes before the chan...

Since the 1950s, numerous publications of analytical studies of tidal wave propagations in coastal aquifers have been appeared. This paper reviews the following aspects: importance of tidal effects in studies of coastal areas, analytical studies of tide-induced groundwater flow and related case studies. Finally several important open problems in analytical studies of tide-induced groundwater fl...

Vale, L. M. and Dias, J. M., 2011. The effect of tidal regime and river flow on the hydrodynamics and salinity structure of the Lima Estuary: Use of a numerical model to assist on estuary classification, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), 1604 – 1608. Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 The purpose of this work is to characterize the hydrodynamics of the Lima estuary ...