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Rate of exchange of deuterium between water and dissolved hydrogen in presence of diethylamine
Originally issued as the 1st author's Ph. D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1964"MIT-2249-1."Contract AT(30-1)-224
Plasma ropivacaine concentration after TAP block in a patient with cardiac and renal failure
We report a successful ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block as an analgesic option for minor abdominal surgery in a 66-year-old patient with cardiac, respiratory, and renal dysfunction caused by primary systemic amyloidosis. Bilateral TAP blocks with 120 mg (1.8 mg/kg) of ropivacaine provided sufficient intra- and postoperative analgesia for insertion of a continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis catheter. However, the plasma concentration of ropivacaine reached a maximum of 2.5 mu g/mL at 15 minutes after the TAP block, a concentration that was potentially neurotoxic. Although apparent signs of local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) such as convulsion or changes in an electrocardiogram were not observed, the patient became drowsy after the TAP block, which might be one of the mild symptoms of LAST. A TAP block by itself can thus be an anesthetic option for patients undergoing minor abdominal surgery. However, cardiac and renal dysfunction might influence the pharmacokinetics of a local anesthetic used, and attention should he paid to the possibility of LAST even with a low dose of a local anesthetic for patients with cardiac and renal failure.ArticleLOCAL AND REGIONAL ANESTHESIA.11:57-60(2018)journal articl
PHYSIO-HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL OBESITY OF MEAT PIGS, (REPORT IX), ESPECIALLY ON THE OCCURRENCE OF GLYCOGEN WITHIN THE NUCLEI AND CYTOPLASMS OF THE ZONA RETICULARIS IN THE ADRENALS OF WILD BOARS AND LANDRACE MEAT PIGS IN COMPARISON WITH THAT OF YORKSHIRE-AND LANDRACE F_1-MEAT PIGS, YORKSHIRE PIGLETS, YORKSHIRE PIGS IMMUNIZED WITH HOG-CHOLERA VIRUS, AND OTHER PIGS
The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly
successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will investigate the physics of the high-energy
universe via a suite of four instruments, covering a very wide energy range,
from 0.3 keV to 600 keV. These instruments include a high-resolution,
high-throughput spectrometer sensitive over 0.3-2 keV with high spectral
resolution of Delta E < 7 eV, enabled by a micro-calorimeter array located in
the focal plane of thin-foil X-ray optics; hard X-ray imaging spectrometers
covering 5-80 keV, located in the focal plane of multilayer-coated, focusing
hard X-ray mirrors; a wide-field imaging spectrometer sensitive over 0.4-12
keV, with an X-ray CCD camera in the focal plane of a soft X-ray telescope; and
a non-focusing Compton-camera type soft gamma-ray detector, sensitive in the
40-600 keV band. The simultaneous broad bandpass, coupled with high spectral
resolution, will enable the pursuit of a wide variety of important science
themes.Comment: 22 pages, 17 figures, Proceedings of the SPIE Astronomical
Instrumentation "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to
Gamma Ray
Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray Astronomy Satellite
The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission aimed to provide the highest energy resolution ever achieved at E > 2 keV, using a microcalorimeter instrument, and to cover a wide energy range spanning four decades in energy from soft x-rays to gamma rays. After a successful launch on February 17, 2016, the spacecraft lost its function on March 26, 2016, but the commissioning phase for about a month provided valuable information on the onboard instruments and the spacecraft system, including astrophysical results obtained from first light observations. The paper describes the Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission, its capabilities, the initial operation, and the instruments/spacecraft performances confirmed during the commissioning operations for about a month
Paper VIII A Study on Analysis of Carrier Free Radioisotopes by Paper Chromatography (The Radioactive Dust from the Nuclear Detonation)
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Capacitance of edge plane of pyrolytic graphite in acetonitrile solutions
The capacitance of the edge plane of pyrolytic graphite electrodes, in acetonitrile solutions, is measured by recording the current response to an applied triangular voltage sweep; TVS, and then fitting the current response with an appropriate function, (via a set of adjustable parameters). The pretreatment of the electrodes, the supporting electrolyte concentration used, and the frequency of the input TVS, were all found to affect the measured capacitance. In these experiments, a background current was also seen and the shape of the current output for the TVS; the charging/discharging curve, is shown to correlate with the magnitude of this background current. In addition, the size of the background current was found to have some dependence on the type of electrode pretreatment procedure used. 60 refs., 49 figs., 3 tabs
Preparation of polymer-modified electrodes: A literature and experimental study
A literature review is presented on the field of polymer modified electrodes which can be electrochemically generated. It is suggested that a possible application of these polymer modified electrodes is as a regeneratable catalysis packing material for use in couter-current exchange columns. Secondly, there is a presentation of experimental results dealing with possible electrode modification using difluoro- and dimethyl- phenols and fluorinated derivatives of styrene, benzoquinone and hydroquinone. It appears that dimethylphenol shows the most potential of the monomers experimentally tested in providing a stable polymer modified electrode surface. 170 refs., 31 figs., 1 tab