BACKGROUND: Noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) unloads respiratory
muscles. Spontaneous-breathing ventilation modes require patient effort to trigger the ventilator, …

The impact of the respiratory pattern on respiratory muscle workload represents an unresolved
controversy and is important for the treatment of patients with respiratory disorders and …

Background. Tracheostomy decreases airway resistance and work of breathing. No
comprehensive data are available on respiratory mechanics after tracheostomy decannulation. We …

Study objective Dyspnea is a common symptom in patients with diaphragm weakness or
paralysis. In particular, dyspnea may be aggravated by immersion. We hypothesized that …

Distinguished jurist, Associate Justice. of the Supreme Court of the United States, you laid
the foundation for your valuable contributions to the profession, to legal education, and to the …

The study of individual differences in emotional responding can provide considerable insight
into interpersonal dynamics and the etiology of psychopathology. Heart rate variability (HRV…

We present a rapid synthetic method for the development of hyperbranched PEIs decorated
with different oligosaccharide architectures as carrier systems (CS) for drugs and bioactive …

… by Dominic Dellweg—Schmallenberg, Germany Bernd Schonhofer—Hannover, Germany
Peter M Haidl, Thomas Barchfeld, Markus D Wenzel, Patrick Appelhans, and Dieter Kohler—…

In this thesis we propose a new algorithm for solving PDEs on massively parallel computers.
The Nested Iteration Adaptive Mesh Refinement Range Decomposition (NI-AMR-RD) …

Amorphous titania thin films were examined for use as the active material in a polarimetry
based HF sensor. The amorphous titania films were found to be sensitive to vapor phase HF …