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Glenn C. Knudson of Larimore: Germany, World War II
North Dakota Prisoner of War Report of Glenn Knudson (1924-1999) of Larimore. Knudson was a POW of Germany during the Second World War.
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FACTORS IN UPPER EXTREMITY LOADING IN THE POWER DROP EXERCISE
This case study examined the factors that were related to peak vertical force applied to a medicine ball in an upper body plyometric exercise. Sagittal plane video and force platform data were collected for two male athletes performing 30 power drop exercises with a 5 kg medicine ball. Force on the medicine ball, net joint torques, and several technique variables were analyzed with partial correlations. Drop height was related to the impulse of the exercise, but was not uniquely associated with higher peak forces measured by video or the force platform because of intercorrelations between joint torques. Peak forces on the medicine ball were 44 to 69% of the peak vertical ground reaction forces (600 Hz) and were not uniquely associated with drop height
The Adsorption of Certain Vapors by Charcoal at Various Temperatures up to and above Their Critical Temperatures
It is perhaps safe to state that no one property of a solid substance has been more persistently studied through so long a period as has been the property of solid porous bodies to adsorb gases and vapors. The phenomenon of the adsorption of gases and vapors by charcoal was originally discovered independently by Scheele1 and by Fontana1 in 1777. In the century following much was contributed which deals with the general qualitative side of adsorption. It was not until the beginning of the present century and more particularly with the advent of poison gas warfare and the consequent demand for gas mask adsorbents that an intensive study of charcoal and its properties was undertaken. Since then many investigations have been made and a number of theories have been put forth in the attempt to explain the mechanism of adsorption and to deduce laws governing it
Bostonia. Volume 17
Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs
Excessive gas exchange impairment during exercise in a subject with a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia and high altitude pulmonary edema
A 27-year-old male subject (V(O2 max)), 92% predicted) with a history of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) and a clinically documented case of high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) was examined at rest and during exercise. Pulmonary function testing revealed a normal forced vital capacity (FVC, 98.1% predicted) and diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (D(L(CO)), 91.2% predicted), but significant airway obstruction at rest [forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV(1)), 66.5% predicted; forced expiratory flow at 50% of vital capacity (FEF(50)), 34.3% predicted; and FEV(1) /FVC 56.5%] that was not reversible with an inhaled bronchodilator. Gas exchange worsened from rest to exercise, with the alveolar to arterial P(O2) difference (AaD(O2)) increasing from 0 at rest to 41 mmHg at maximal normoxic exercise (VO(2) = 41.4 mL/kg/min) and from 11 to 31 mmHg at maximal hypoxic exercise (VO(2) = 21.9 mL/kg/min). Arterial P(O2) decreased to 67.8 and 29.9 mmHg at maximal normoxic and hypoxic exercise, respectively. These data indicate that our subject with a history of BPD is prone to a greater degree of exercise-induced arterial hypoxemia for a given VO(2) and F(I(O2)) than healthy age-matched controls, which may increase the subject's susceptibility to high altitude illness
Warming Up Density Functional Theory
Density functional theory (DFT) has become the most popular approach to
electronic structure across disciplines, especially in material and chemical
sciences. Last year, at least 30,000 papers used DFT to make useful predictions
or give insight into an enormous diversity of scientific problems, ranging from
battery development to solar cell efficiency and far beyond. The success of
this field has been driven by usefully accurate approximations based on known
exact conditions and careful testing and validation. In the last decade,
applications of DFT in a new area, warm dense matter, have exploded. DFT is
revolutionizing simulations of warm dense matter including applications in
controlled fusion, planetary interiors, and other areas of high energy density
physics. Over the past decade or so, molecular dynamics calculations driven by
modern density functional theory have played a crucial role in bringing
chemical realism to these applications, often (but not always) with excellent
agreement with experiment. This chapter summarizes recent work from our group
on density functional theory at non-zero temperatures, which we call thermal
DFT. We explain the relevance of this work in the context of warm dense matter,
and the importance of quantum chemistry to this regime. We illustrate many
basic concepts on a simple model system, the asymmetric Hubbard dimer
High-Spin States in Nuclei Excited Via (p,n) Reactions
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grants PHY 76-84033A01, PHY 78-22774, and Indiana Universit
High-Spin States and Spin-Coupled Quadrupole Vibrational States in Nuclei Excited Via (p,n) Reactions
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant PHY 76-84033 and Indiana Universit
Effect of postnatal development on calcium currents and slow charge movement in mammalian skeletal muscle.
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