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Showing 1 to 20 of 600 for “"breathing"”.
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Breathing Through the Night
<p>In <em>Breathing through the Night</em>, the author examines the moments of understanding and misunderstanding, the moments of fear, coping, and relief that occur during her husband’s deployment to Iraq and upon his return. The experiences of this military family serve as a magnifying lens …
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The Pediatric Breathing Survey
… assessments, the researcher designed a Pediatric Breathing Survey (PBS) to measure quality of life for African-American children. The purpose of this study was to test whether the PBS is a reliable and valid instrument. Comparisons of group differences on race, income and parent's level of …
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Monitoring breathing with smart fabrics
Wearable sensing technologies offer promising solutions for non-intrusive monitoring in healthcare, fitness, and assistive applications. This thesis investigates respiration monitoring using off-the-shelf, commercially available stretchable conductive fabric as the sensing element, eliminating the …
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A Free-Breathing Lung Motion Model
… delivery of radiation due to organ motion during breathing remain a significant issue. To compensate the breathing motion during the treatment, a free breathing lung motion model, x= x0+αv+βf, was developed and discussed, where x is the position of a piece of tissue located at reference position …
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Monitoring Breathing Using a Doppler Radar
… received by a Doppler radar to estimate the breathing rate from the detected motion associated with breathing. A reliability measure is provided with breathing rate estimates through the analysis of various signal quality indices. Results demonstrate that the algorithm is able to estimate the …
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Breathing embodiment: a study of Middendorf breathwork
This thesis is about Middendorf breathwork, a way of cultivating breath and body awareness developed by Ilse Middendorf (b.1910, Berlin), based on sensing subtle bodily movements that occur with breath as it is allowed to come and go on its own. Drawing on the author’s personal experience, together …
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Comparison of concentrations in the breathing zone
The concentrations in the "breathing zone" were analyzed on three human subjects in simulating work conditions. The experiments were carried out in a wind tunnel having 40&feet; x 12&feet; x 9&feet; dimensions. Ethanol vapor mixed with nitrogen was used as a tracer gas. Samples were taken at the …
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Prediction of Breathing Patterns Using Neural Networks
… tumor during respiration. Analyzing external breathing signals presents a methodology in predicting the tumor position. Breathing patterns vary from very regular to irregular patterns. The irregular breathing patterns make prediction difficult. A solution is presented in this paper which …
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Work of breathing in exercise and disease
… into a sophisticated system that optimises breathing pattern to maintain the most efficient homeostatic action of the respiratory system. Eliciting and assessing this automatic response is the key to removing the action of participation from respiratory functiontesting. The focus must …
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Work of Breathing: Development of a Construct
… are often required to assess a patient’s work of breathing and make clinical decisions based on their findings. There is currently no objective work of breathing assessment tool available. The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover how nurses conceptually describe and assess work of …
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AGE AND SPEECH BREATHING (KINEMATICS, PHYSIOLOGY, RESPIRATORY).
… the potential influence of age on speech breathing. Toward this end, 30 men representing three widely different age groups (25, 50, and 75 years) were studied. These individuals were carefully selected to meet stringent criteria, the most important of which related to health and physical …
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The mechanics of breathing in acute severe croup
… are very few descriptions of the mechanics of breathing in croup. In addition there are very few methods described of measuring the severity of airway obstruction in patients with croup.
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Afferents integration and neural adaptive control of breathing
… the robust control of the motor act of breathing in the face of constantly changing internal and external challenges throughout one's life is still poorly understood. Traditionally, control of breathing has been studied with a highly reductionist approach, with specific stimulus-response …
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Air-data estimation for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.
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Breathing & Playing Architecture: Bagpipe School, Museum and Workshop
"This project is my way of saying thanks. My intention is to recognize the people who were able to transmit the passion and love for the land of my grandparents Asturias, with its heritage, history and music. My architectural purpose is to strengthen the tradition and culture by recovering the …
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Sonorous breathing: a theoretical and treatment outcome study
… response of reduced muscle tonus and mouth breathing causes snoring. Altering the stimulus configuration which elicits the respiration response was predicted to be effective in reducing snoring. An electrically-induced muscle contraction in the throat was utilized to replace the low muscle …
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Dispersion-managed Breathing-mode Semiconductor Mode-locked Ring Laser
A novel dispersion-managed breathing-mode semiconductor mode-locked ring laser is developed. The "breathing-mode" designation derives from the fact that intracavity pulses are alternately stretched and compressed as they circulate around the ring resonator. The pulses are stretched before entering …
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Reaction Control Jet Actuators for Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicles
Air-breathing hypersonic vehicles have an engine which is tightly integrated with the airframe. This integration leads to complex dynamic characteristics, such as propulsion-pitch coupling. As a result, air-breathing hypersonic vehicles tend to be unstable and high frequency control is required to …
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