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Lung Injury Is a Predictor of Cerebral Hypoxia and Mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury
2020
Background: A major contributor to unfavorable outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is secondary brain injury. Low brain tissue oxygen tension (PbtO2) has shown to be an independent predictor of unfavorable outcome. Although PbtO2 provides clinicians with an understanding of the ischemic and non-ischemic derangements of brain physiology, its value does not take into consideration systemic oxygenation that can influence patients' outcomes. This study analyses brain and systemic oxygenation and a number of related indices in TBI patients: PbtO2, partial arterial oxygenation pressure (PaO2), PbtO2/PaO2, ratio of PbtO2 to fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2), and PaO2/FiO2. The primary aim …
MECHANISMS OF TENSION DEVELOPMENT INDUCED BY MONENSIN IN GUINEA-PIG AORTA : EFFECTS OF VERAPAMIL, OUABAIN, PRAZOSIN AND GLIBENCLAMIDE
1993
The influence of monensin (10 µmol/L) alone and in the presence of verapamil (3 µmol/L) or ouabain (1 mmol) and prazosin (1 µmol/L) or glibenclamide (10 µmol/L) were studied on the muscle tension of guinea pig aorta. Changes in tissue sodium, potassium and calcium ion contents of the aortic muscle produced by monensin in the presence of prazosin were evaluated. Monensin in normal Tyrode's solution containing prazosin caused an increase in the resting tension followed by a decrease and returned to normal values. Verapamil reduced the muscle tension induced by monensin. After ouabain, monensin induced sustained increase in the resting tension. Glibenclamide partially reversed the relaxant pha…
Cerebral Blood Flow Regulation Under the Conditions of Arterial Hypoxia
1978
Pronounced arterial hypoxia induces a decrease of cerebrovascular resistance and an increase of total and regional cerebral blood flow. Under the conditions of normal arterial blood pressure and normal acid base status, the changes of both parameters commence when the oxygen tension in the arterial blood decreases below approximately 50 mm Hg. At the same time, the oxygen tension in the cerebral venous blood reaches values below approximately 28 mm Hg. Different authors [23, 28, 30, 31, 33] reported that cerebral blood flow responses to PaO2 decrease are threshold at these oxygen tensions. The threshold oxygen tension of cerebral venous blood was accorded a special significance because Noel…
Micelles in Mixtures of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and a Bolaform Surfactant
2006
Mixtures composed of water, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), and a bolaform surfactant with two aza-crown ethers as polar headgroups (termed Bola C-16) were investigated by modulating the mole ratios between the components. The two surfactants have ionic and nonionic, but ionizable, headgroups, respectively. The ionization is due to the complexation of alkali ions by the aza-crown ether unit(s). Structural, thermodynamic, and transport properties of the above mixtures were investigated. Results from surface tension, translational self-diffusion, and small angle neutron scattering ( SANS) are reported and discussed. Interactions between the two surfactants to form mixed micelles result in a com…
Meu caro amigo Lucio, Ciao
2012
Quando eu era criança, imaginava que tudo na Itália tinha o cheiro e a forma das músicas de Lucio Dalla. Do primeiro Lucio Dalla. Hoje, Dalla representa um pouco a imagem triste da decadência da parte mais bela do país onde escolhi viver. Um pouco como aquelas virgens deprimidas e infelizes que a religião católica impõe aos seus fiéis. Na gênese, Lucio Dalla era de esquerda, genial, "malgré lui". Em 1976, pouco antes que eu nascesse, seu amigo Chico Buarque, que o tinha conhecido quando exilado na Itália, lhe escreveu uma carta sobre um Brasil em plena ditadura. Uma das músicas mais visionarias da historia da MPB: "Meu Caro Amigo".
Effects of heating, drying and straining on the relaxation and tensile properties of wet paper
2014
Evoluzione del comportamento idro-meccanico di una sabbia di quarzo dallo stato saturo allo stato asciutto
2022
La nota presenta i risultati di un lavoro sperimentale condotto con lo scopo di analizzare il comportamento idro-meccanico di una sabbia quarzosa per un ampio intervallo del grado di saturazione. Per analizzare le caratteristiche di ritenzione del materiale e per investigare la relazione tra la tensione di snervamento e la suzione di matrice sono state eseguite prove edometriche a suzione controllata e a contenuto d'acqua costante. I risultati ottenuti mostrano che la tensione di snervamento della sabbia non aumenta monotonamente con la suzione. Tale andamento è caratterizzato da un punto di massimo e da valori della tensione di snervamento sostanzialmente coincidenti per la condizioni satu…
Poderes locales, conflictividad y cambio social en la España agraria. Del Antiguo Régimen a la sociedad burguesa
1993
Se analizan los debates y las comunicaciones del VI Seminario de Historia Agraria en la sesión dedicada a los poderes locales en la España del siglo XIX. Se sitúa la discusión en la problemática del cambio social, las actitudes y la conflictividad colectivas. The various discussions and papers from the 4th Seminar on Agrarian History in its meeting about the local authorities in the 19th-century Spain, are discussed. The reflection focusses on the set of problems of the social change, on the collective attitudes, tensions and disputes. jmillan@uv.es
A simple field method to measure the hydrodynamic properties of soil surface crust
2013
The hydraulic resistance of the surface crust was determined by a combination of two infiltrometric techniques: first, a surface measurement of steady-state infiltration rate is conducted by a mini-disk tension infiltrometer (MDI); then, the surface crust is removed, its thickness is measured, and a ponded infiltration test is performed at the same site. The Beerkan Estimation of Soil Transfer parameters (BEST) method is applied to estimate the hydraulic properties of the underlying soil provided the particlesize distribution and the bulk density are known. Under the assumption of a unit gradient of hydraulic head below the soil crust, the pressure head at the interface crust-soil is derive…
Development of microfluidics for sorting of carbon nanotubes
2018
Sorting of carbon nanotubes by their chirality is the current bottleneck in the way to their broad employment based on their exceptional electronic and optical properties. Despite the extensive effort, there is no known method, which would result in really pure chirality ensembles. Previously reported sorting protocols result in enrichment rather than in sorting, alter electronic structure, and suffer from low yield. This is mostly due to the statistical approach, where the nanotubes with mixed chiralities are treated as a set. In this thesis, we propose a new sorting technique based on nanotube-by-nanotube compartmelization, characterization, and sorting in a continuously running droplet-b…