Should patients with sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome be diagnosed and managed on the basis of home sleep studies?

The purpose of this study was to analyse the validity and the economic efficiency of a portable monitor of respiratory parameters (PMRP), used in a home setting for the diagnosis of sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS). Eighty nine patients with suspected SAHS were studied in two settings: in the sleep laboratory using full-polysomnography (full-PSG); and at the patient's home using a PMRP. In the home setting, 50 patients were assisted by a technician and 39 set up the equipment themselves. SAHS (apnoea/hypopnoea index (AHI) >10 events x h(-1) by means of full-PSG) was diagnosed in 75 of the 89 patients. An acceptable agreement was obtained between the AHI measured by full-PSG and PMRP, according to the Bland and Altman method of concordance (mean bias 2.56; 95% confidence interval 3.25). Sensitivity and specificity of PMRP were adequate for diagnostic purposes; however, their values rely on the prior PMRP-AHI cut-off point selected with reference to full-PSG-AHI >10. The clinical therapeutic decision taken after PMRP agreed with that taken with full-PSG in 79 patients (89%). Although 10% of the studies with an individual set-up needed repetition, both of the domiciliary modalities (with and without a technician's intervention) were, economically, about three times more efficient than full-PSG. In conclusion, we believe that patients with a suspected sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome should initially be studied in a home setting with a portable monitor of respiratory parameters, since it is a reliable method with an acceptable cost-effective profile.     

物联网技术发展与应用

近年来许多国家将物联网技术列为国家战略新兴产业。文章介绍了物联网的概念和基本特征,分析了物联网关键技术,详细阐述了物联网技术在交通、电网、工业监测、物流、医疗和智能家居等领域的应用。     

An Analytical Model Including Interface Traps and Temperature Effects in Negative Capacitance Double Gate Field Effect Transistor

Silicon - In this paper, an analytical model for negative capacitance double gate field effect transistor (NC-DG-FET) is proposed. This model includes interface traps and temperature effects, which...     

Role of TRPA1 in Tissue Damage and Kidney Disease

TRPA1, a nonselective cation channel, is expressed in sensory afferent that innervates peripheral targets. Neuronal TRPA1 can promote tissue repair, remove harmful stimuli and induce protective responses via the release of neuropeptides after the activation of the channel by chemical, exogenous, or endogenous irritants in the injured tissue. However, chronic inflammation after repeated noxious stimuli may result in the development of several diseases. In addition to sensory neurons, TRPA1, activated by inflammatory agents from some non-neuronal cells in the injured area or disease, might promote or protect disease progression. Therefore, TRPA1 works as a molecular sentinel of tissue damage or as an inflammation gatekeeper. Most kidney damage cases are associated with inflammation. In this review, we summarised the role of TRPA1 in neurogenic or non-neurogenic inflammation and in kidney disease, especially the non-neuronal TRPA1. In in vivo animal studies, TRPA1 prevented sepsis-induced or Ang-II-induced and ischemia-reperfusion renal injury by maintaining mitochondrial haemostasis or via the downregulation of macrophage-mediated inflammation, respectively. Renal tubular epithelial TRPA1 acts as an oxidative stress sensor to mediate hypoxia–reoxygenation injury in vitro and ischaemia–reperfusion-induced kidney injury in vivo through MAPKs/NF-kB signalling. Acute kidney injury (AKI) patients with high renal tubular TRPA1 expression had low complete renal function recovery. In renal disease, TPRA1 plays different roles in different cell types accordingly. These findings depict the important role of TRPA1 and warrant further investigation.     

麻石烟气脱硫装置耐酸胶泥的研究

通过对用于麻石烟气脱硫装置的2^#和3^#耐酸胶泥的单因素对比试验的研究，得出2^#胶泥耐酸度较好，因而防腐蚀性能也较好。这不仅回收了固废，而且还具有可观的环境效益。     

碳化硅晶须双重加热合成的研究

双重加热法是低成本、大批量合成碳化硅晶须的新技术，合成温度低、合成时间短、生成率高。对以炭黑和二氧化硅微粉为原料、用双重加热法合成碳化硅晶须的工艺过程进行了研究。观察了不同合成时间、合成温度和催化剂条件下的碳化硅晶须，揭示出不同工艺参数对合成的碳化硅晶须的产出率，微观形貌、直径和长度范围的影响。结果表明，催化剂的使用可以加快反应速度，提高碳化硅晶须的生成率，合成过程为VLS。实验中初步得到的最佳经济工艺参数为：Fe2O3的用量为2％，合成时间为1．5h，合成温度为1250℃。此时的该工艺条件下碳化硅晶须的生成率可达80％，晶须平均直径为0．6μm，平均长度为30μm。     

Effect of miscibility and forced compatibility on damping properties of CIIR/PAc blend

In this study, a kind of novel damping materials was prepared based on the blend of chlorinated butyl rubber (CIIR) and polyacrylate (PAc) synthesized by different molar ratio of butyl methacrylate and ethyl acrylate. Research results from experiments and analyses by employing DMA, TEM, and FTIR show that whether at a cocured system or noncocured system, it can be achieved to shift a loss peak of CIIR towards a higher temperature region and to keep the damping value from markedlly decreasing, which broadens the effective damping function area of CIIR to the vicinity of ambient temperature. In the former system, the thermodynamical miscibility of CIIR and PAc, to some extent, is predominated by the molecular design of PAc, while in the latter system, covulcanized networks play a more significant role in improving compatibility and abating the peak split, though the suppression effect of thermal stress on the transition of CIIR T_ll transition still can not be neglected. Furthermore, transition state derived from the cocuring CIIR and PAc cannot make the phase separation completely take place, and consequently results in the deformation of phase morphology of the cocured CIIR/PAc blend. It is the influence of thermodynamics miscibility and forced compatibility in different size that makes the suppression effect of foreign PAc on CIIR T_ll transition be controllable. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 102: 3127–3133, 2006     

强震区土石坝筑坝材料动力特性试验研究(投稿研究生论坛)

土石坝筑坝材料的动力特性是进行坝工设计和动力评价的基础。以西部强震区某土石坝工程为研究对象,采用室内动三轴试验,对其坝壳料、心墙料和坝基断层料进行动力特性试验研究,并以Hardin-Drnevich模型为基础,确定筑坝材料的动弹模、阻尼比等特性参数,试验表明：在动应变在10-6 ～ 10-5 范围内,动模量与围压、固结比成正相关;随动模量的增大,相关性降低;动应变和振级的拟合指数模型则表明不同围压、固结比的心墙料的应变-振级曲线趋势一致,坝壳料较为离散;试验中固结围压对粗骨料阻尼比-应变曲线的影响较固结比大,可为强震区土石坝的动力稳定评价提供可靠的理论依据。     

离子色谱法测定配煤、焦炭和焦油中的氯含量

研究了用带电导检测器的离子色谱对配煤、焦炭和焦油中的Cl- 进行测定的方法。在YSA型8126A-4# 阴离子分离柱上用3.5mmol/LNa2CO3、5.3mmol/LNaHCO3做淋洗液对Cl-进行测定,方法简便快速。Cl-的检出限为2×10-6。该法也适用于F-、NO2-、NO3-、SO42-等的测定。     

辊道窑烧嘴喷射角度对窑内湍流气流影响的研究

应用k -ε两方程湍流模型 ,对辊道窑烧成带的湍流旋流流动进行了理论分析 ,并用计算流体力学软件Fluent进行数值模拟 ,研究了烧嘴的喷射角度对烧成带内的湍流旋流流动的影响及其对制品烧成的作用