INTRODUCTION Throughout Great Britain, increasing numbers of women having an early medical abortion are choosing to go home soon after administration of misoprostol, to expel the pregnancy at home (early medical discharge, EMD), rather than remain upon the hospital premises (day case). However, data are lacking on how this impacts upon an abortion service in terms of unscheduled re-attendance r...

was found in 22 of 24 subjects with myocardial infarction and 14 patients without documented myocardial infarction. A close linear correlation (r = -0.82, P < 0.001) was noted between shortening of the QS2I and catecholamine excretion among all patients irrespective of the presence of documented infarction. Patients with serious arrhythmias had significantly higher levels of catecholamine excre...

Optomechanical systems have enabled wide-band optical frequency conversion and multichannel all-optical radio frequency amplification. Realization of an on-chip silicon communication platform is limited by photodetectors needed to convert optical information to electrical signals for further signal processing. In this paper we present a coupled silicon microresonator, which converts near-IR opt...

In skeletal muscle fibres contraction is initiated by the action potential which travels inward along the transverse tubular system and causes in some way the release of Ca from the terminal cisternae of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Ca-release is probably controlled by a potential-sensor (intram em brane charge movement) in the wall of the T-system which in a triad is about 10 20 nm apart f...

We report the development and use of a synthetic, discrete event, discrete space model that functions as an epithelio-mimetic device (EMD). It is intended to facilitate the study of intestinal transport of drug-like compounds. We represent passive paracellular and transcellular transport, carrier-mediated transport and active efflux using stand-alone components. Systematic verification of the E...

Electromechanical property measurements and microstructure observations using optical microscopy were performed on a [001] c oriented k33 resonator made of 91%Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-9%PbTiO3 single crystal, which was polarized under different electric fields. At room temperature, when the poling field is 1100 V/mm, the electromechanical coupling factor k33 is 0.90 and piezoelectric coefficient d33 is...

To cite this version: Nadal, Clément and Pigache, François Multimodal electromechanical model of piezoelectric transformers by Hamilton's principle. OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Abstract—This work deals with a general energetic approach to establish an accurate electromechanical model...

Solving intractable mathematical problems in simulators composed of atoms, ions, photons, or electrons has recently emerged as a subject of intense interest. We extend this concept to phonons that are localized in spectrally pure resonances in an electromechanical system that enables their interactions to be exquisitely fashioned via electrical means. We harness this platform to emulate the Isi...

We fabricate and characterize a microscale silicon opto-electromechanical system whose mechanical motion is coupled capacitively to an electrical circuit and optically via radiation pressure to a photonic crystal cavity. To achieve large electromechanical interaction strength, we implement an inverse shadow mask fabrication scheme which obtains capacitor gaps as small as 30 nm while maintaining...

Electrostatically actuated polysilicon beams fabricated in the MUMPs process are studied, with an emphasis on the behavior when the beam is in contact with an underlying silicon nitride dielectric layer. Detailed 2D electromechanical simulations, including the mechanical effects of stepups, stress-stiffening and contact, as well as the electrical effects of fringing fields and finite beam thick...