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Passive mechanical properties of cardiac tissues in heart hypertrophy during pregnancy
We evaluated changes in passive mechanical properties in cardiac tissues during rat pregnancy. Left and right ventricular free walls were dissected from hearts of nonpregnant, late-pregnant, and postpartum rat...
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Dynamical two electron states in a Hubbard-Davydov model
We study a model in which a Hubbard Hamiltonian is coupled to the dispersive phonons in a classical nonlinear lattice. Our calculations are restricted to the case where we have only two quasi-particles of opposit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
2-D Breathers and Applications
In this chapter we show how a new type of nonlinear lattice excitation is hel** to understand the long-standing puzzle of unexplained dark lines in crystals of muscovite mica. In fact, it was the conjecture ...
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Prolonged pneumoperitoneum at 15 mmHg causes lactic acidosis
Background: Acute increases in intraabdominal pressure (IAP) induce systemic and regional circulatory changes. Besides, mechanical compression on the capillary beds may decrease oxygen availabili...
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Chapter
Post-Radiotherapy Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Regionally Advanced UNPC: Increase in Disease Free Survival
38 patients with NPC, most of them from North Africa and South of Italy, with histo and serological diagnosis of UNPC (undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma), seen from January ‘83 till December ’84 at the In...
