In the last decade, the analysis of bronchial biopsies and lung parenchyma obtained from
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients compared with those from smokers …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to systematically and comprehensively review the
literature on procedural justice in policing, in the context of both police-citizen encounters and …

… In synthesis, dLH results from the discrepancy between the (a) volume to exhale, and (b)
the time needed for a complete exhalation to V r , and (c) the expiratory time constant of the …

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the management
of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American Thoracic Society (…

… c, Our control policy is an MLP with three hidden layers that takes measurements and
control targets and outputs voltage commands. d–f, The interaction of TCV and the real-time-…

… tatement of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
was adopted by the ATS Board of Directors, December 2005, and by the ERS Executive C…

Though exercise training is part of most pulmonary rehabilitation programs, whether there is
a physiologic basis for increased exercise tolerance is unclear. We sought to determine …

To investigate the relationship between airflow limitation and airway inflammation in smokers,
we examined paraffin-embedded bronchial biopsies obtained from 30 smokers: 10 with …

Background—Nocturnal Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) occurs frequently in patients with
chronic heart failure (CHF), and it may be associated with sympathetic activation. The aim of …

Placental and endometrial partial pressures of oxygen (PO 2) were measured using a
polarographic oxygen electrode during the first trimester of pregnancy. Between 8-10 weeks' …