It has previously been demonstrated that predictable changes occur in mitral flow velocities under different loading conditions. The purpose of this study was to relate changes in pulmonary venous and mitral flow velocities during different loading conditions as assessed by transesophageal echocardiography in the operating room. Nineteen patients had measurements of hemodynamics, that is, mitra...

background common carotid artery (cca) ultrasound with measurement of intima-media thickness (imt) is a safe and noninvasive technique for assessing subclinical atherosclerosis and determining cardiovascular risks. moreover, the pattern of wall thickening in the brachial artery (ba) is rather diffuse compared to the carotid artery and may be a more sensitive indicator of long-term systemic expo...

   Graphene oxide nanosheet (GONS) can be a suitable membrane for gas separation with high permeability and selectivity. Separation of N2/CO2 using functionalized GONS was investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. The simulated systems were comprised of two types of GONS with a pore in their center, N2 and CO2 molecules. The selectivity and ...

This paper investigates response of triangular shell strip footings situated on the sandy slope. A series of reduced-scale plate load tests were conducted to cover different parameters including three shell footing types with different apex angles in addition to a flat footing, four different distances for strip footings from the crest of the slope namely “edge distance” and reinforcement statu...

The Maslov index is used to compute the spectra of different boundary value problems for Schrödinger operators on compact manifolds. The main result is a spectral decomposition formula for a manifold M divided into components Ω1 and Ω2 by a separating hypersurface Σ. A homotopy argument relates the spectrum of a second-order elliptic operator on M to its Dirichlet and Neumann spectra on Ω1 and ...

Absact Network loading problems occur in the design of telecommunication networks, in many different settings. The polyhedral structure of this problem is important in developing solution methods for the problem. In this paper we investigate the polytope of the problem restricted to one edge of the network (the edge capacity problem). We describe classes of strong valid inequalities for the edg...

let $g=(v, e)$ be a graph. by emph{directional labeling (ord-labeling)} of an edge $x=uv$ of $g$ by an ordered $n$-tuple$(a_1,a_2,...,a_n)$, we mean a labeling of the edge $x$ such thatwe consider the label on $uv$ as $(a_1,a_2,...,a_n)$ in thedirection from $u$ to $v$, and the label on $x$ as$(a_{n},a_{n-1},...,a_1)$ in the direction from $v$ to $u$. inthis paper, we study graphs, called emph{...

cutting blades are exposed to abrasion and breakage during operation. therefore a comparison of such mechanical properties as hardness among different blades is necessitated. in this research, the hardness of three iran made blades (khooshe-talaei, iran-derogar and combine-sazi) and two foreign (germany and u.s.a) manufactured ones were evaluated and compared with the standard figures. the resu...