The accurate measurement of total body water (TBW) in children has important clinical and nutritional applications. Resonant cavity perturbation (RCP) is a new method for estimating TBW. This method measures the dielectric properties of the body which are related to body water. For RCP measurements, each subject lay supine on a bed inside a screened room which acts as a resonant cavity. A netwo...

We review the scientific history of random close packing (RCP) of equal spheres, advocated by J D Bernal as a more plausible alternative to the non-ideal gas or imperfect crystal as a structural model of simple liquids. After decades of neglect, computer experiments are revealing a central role for RCP in the theory of liquids. These demonstrate that the RCP amorphous state of hard spheres can ...

An analysis was made of cell length and cycle time in time-lapse films of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe using wild-type (WT) cells and those of various mutants. The more important conclusions about 'size controls' are: (1) there is a marker in G2 in WT cells provided by a rate change point (RCP) where the linear rate of length growth increases by approximately 30%. The period befo...

UNLABELLED Retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) potentially delivers metabolic substrate to the brain during surgery using hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA). Serial measurements of O2 extraction ratio (OER), PCO2, and pH from the RCP inflow and outflow were used to determine the time course for O2 delivery in 28 adults undergoing aortic reconstruction using HCA with RCP. HCA was instituted af...

This paper studies the reach control problem (RCP) using affine feedback on simplices. The contributions of this paper are threefold. First, we identify a new obstruction to solvability of the RCP using affine feedback and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for occurrence of such an obstruction. Second, for two-input systems, these conditions are formulated in terms of scalar linear in...

OBJECTIVE Our study evaluated the accuracy and reliability of 3 radiochemical purity (RCP) measurement methods of 99mTc-sestamibi. A regular-sized (1.0 cm x 9.0 cm) Whatman 31 ET Chr paper strip (regular 31 ET) also was included in our evaluation because of its ease in handling. METHODS The miniaturized and regular 31 ET methods were compared with the standard RCP testing method (aluminum oxi...

The Reader Collision Problem (RCP) is a bottle-neck decreasing the reading efficiency in multiplereader RFID systems. This paper proposed a novel anti-collision protocol – DRA (Distributed Reservation-based Anti-collision) protocol to solve the RCP in multiple-reader RFID systems. Temporal Cluster Headers (TCHs) are dynamically selected among the potentially interfered readers in DRA protocol. ...

Reinforced concrete pipe (RCP) has been one of the most common pipes for medium to large diameter utility systems including sanitary sewer, and storm drainage systems. RCP typically has superior structural properties combining high compressive strength from concrete and tensile strength from reinforced steel. RCP tends to deteriorate over time due to hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas in sewage and man...