Septomarginal trabecula and anterior papillary muscle in primate hearts: developmental issues

The septomarginal trabecula is present in all human hearts as well as in thehearts of other primates. It usually connects the interventricular septum withthe anterior papillary muscle, although there are many variations in how this isachieved. The object of the analyses was to estimate the bilateral topography ofthe septomarginal trabecula and the anterior papillary muscle in the context ofthe ontogeny and phylogeny of primates. A total of 138 hearts were examinedfrom number of different non-human primates. The presence of the septomarginaltrabecula was confirmed in 94.9% of cases, although not in the hearts ofLemur varius. Four configurations could be distinguished by defining the locationof the septomarginal trabecula and its relation to the anterior papillary muscle.For the hearts of the Strepsirrhini and the majority of Platyrrhini neither structurewas related, whereas in all examined representatives of Hominoidea they hadfused and created morphologically varying forms. On the basis of these results,a concept was developed for the sequence of changes which the topography ofthe septomarginal trabecula and the anterior papillary muscle undergo duringontogeny and phylogeny

Estimation of glacial meltwater discharge into Svalbard coastal waters. Oceanologia 39

Abstract During the summer expeditions of r/v 'Oceania' in 1995'Oceania' in -1996, oceanographic investigations comprising CTD profiling and suspension measurements were conducted in Svalbard fjords and shelf waters. The freshwater volume was estimated independently from the salinity drop as compared with the assumed background salinity and from the distribution of mineral suspension density in surface waters. Preliminary calculations of the instantaneous freshwater volume based on the distribution of suspended matter (at depths of < 150 m) yielded a figure of 80 km 3 in Svalbard coastal waters in summer. Values for Hornsund and Kongsfjord ranged from 0.4 to 0.7 km 3 of freshwater at the height of summer. This corresponds well with glaciological estimations, which give an annual discharge of 14.6 to 27.5 km 3 of freshwater for Svalbard. The glacial discharge is estimated to make up some 42% of the freshwater budget of Svalbard shelf waters, the remainder being derived from Barents Sea Arctic waters of reduced salinity

Existence of local solutions for free boundary problems for viscous compressible barotropic fluids

We prove the local existence of solutions for equations of motion of a viscous compressible barotropic fluid in a domain bounded by a free surface. The solutions are shown to exist in exactly those function spaces where global solutions were found in our previous papers [14, 15]

On local motion of a compressible barotropic viscous fluid bounded by a free surface

We consider the motion of a viscous compressible barotropic fluid in ℝ³ bounded by a free surface which is under constant exterior pressure, both with surface tension and without it. In the first case we prove local existence of solutions in anisotropic Hilbert spaces with noninteger derivatives. In the case without surface tension the anisotropic Sobolev spaces with integration exponent p > 3 are used to omit the coefficients which are increasing functions of 1/T, where T is the existence time

Zagadnienia prawne – odpowiedzialność prawna w świetle dyrektywy maszynowej

W prawie Unii Europejskiej funkcjonują dwie istotne regulacje związane z zapewnieniem bezpieczeństwa eksploatacji maszyn: dyrektywa narzędziowa 2009/104/WE (d. 89/655/EWG) i dyrektywa maszynowa – aktualna 2006/42/WE. Pierwsza dotyczy maszyn użytkowanych przez pracodawców/przedsiębiorców, druga – jest regulacją związaną z produkcją maszyn

Local existence of solutions of the free boundary problem for the equations of compressible barotropic viscous self-gravitating fluids

Local existence of solutions is proved for equations describing the motion of a viscous compressible barotropic and self-gravitating fluid in a domain bounded by a free surface. First by the Galerkin method and regularization techniques the existence of solutions of the linearized momentum equations is proved, next by the method of successive approximations local existence to the nonlinear problem is shown