BACKGROUND Accurate measurements for determining cardiac index can be obtained while patients are supine in bed at various backrest elevations. It is not clear if these measurements are accurate when patients are in a bedside chair. OBJECTIVE To determine if cardiac index based on measurements obtained with the patient in a chair is similar to cardiac index based on measurements obtained with...

In order to answer the problem of quantifying the degree of unequalness among the individual shares in the distribution of income, several authors proposed and characterized the well-known additively decomposable measures of relative income inequality. In a previous paper, Perez, Caso and Gil [12] verified that for a large uncensused population of income earners, the additively decomposable ind...

This paper discusses a method to evaluate post-trim drifts of laser trimmed film resistor. Based on mathematical flux field computations a drift index is deduced. This index as a part of mathematical laser trim simulations gives an imagination of expected post-trim drifts already on design stage and thereby a method to improve precision and reliability of hybrid IC’s by trim strategy design.

Recent research has demonstrated a task-related modulation of postsynaptic intracortical inhibition within primary motor cortex for tasks requiring isolated (abduction) or synergistic (precision grip) muscle activation. The current study sought to investigate task-related changes in pre- and postsynaptic intracortical inhibition in motor cortex. In 13 young adults (22.5 ± 3.5 yr), paired-pulse ...

We propose a new method for measuring the refractive index of liquids with high precision; the method is based on use of the optical fiber end face. As an example, we investigated the refractive index of sugar solution under varying conditions tens of times. The results show that this method has the advantage of higher stability and repeatability. The concentration and the temperature-dependent...