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Introduction: The aim of the study was to show atmospheric pressure change by indirect measurement in hermetically closed vessels during four years follow-up. Methods: Study design: an observational case study. In hermetically sealed elastic bottles with different liquids were measured differences in liquid and air volumes from baseline to four years follow-up period. Physical law of buoyancy was used to measure in each bottles liquid and air (above the liquid) volumes. Results: Volumes of liquid and air in all bottles were decreased after the follow-up period to 14.38�40 and 36.25�37 ml, respectively. Air volumes in comparison to liquid volumes decreased more than two times significantly (P=0.0007) after follow-up period. Conclusions: Thus, atmospheric pressure increased for the last four-year follow-up period. Further investigations are needed.
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Objective To analyze the onset time rule of spontaneous pneumothorax ,and investigate the influence of climatic factors such as atmo-spheric pressure,wind speed,etc. on the onset of spontaneous pneumothorax. Methods Five hundred and ninety-three patients of spontaneous pneumothorax in Cenral Hospital Affiliated to Shenyang Medical College were enrolled for this study between January 1,2011 and December 31, 2015. The data of the average daily atmosphere pressure and wind speed in five years were recorded. The relationship between the onset of sponta-neous pneumothorax and the change of the atmosphere pressure and wind speed was analyzed. Results The incidence of spontaneous pneumotho-rax in Shenyang area was obvious seasonal. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax episodes were observed mostly in spring and in March and April;Second spontaneous pneumothorax episodes were observed mostly in winter and in November and December. The difference in mean atmospheric pressure was 0.6 hPa lower than on days in which no spontaneous pneumothorax occurred. This difference was statistically significant(P=0.015). We observed significantly higher average wind speed on days with SP versus days without(9.46±6.33 m/s vs 7.11±5.47 m/s,P<0.001). Conclu-sion Spontaneous pneumothorax has obvious aggregation of onset time. A sharp drop in atmospheric pressure and increases in wind speed has im-portant influence on the incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax.
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A quartz tube reactor was designed to combine with a commercial mass spectrometer for on-line detecting the gases evolved during pyrolysis of coal and other samples with high volatile. The reliability and repeatability of this atmosphere pressure-temperature programmed pyrolysis-mass spectrum (AP-TPP-MS) system were tested by model compound and real coal sample. The results show that pyrolysis of model compound can give good response, less overlap or tailing gases evolution curves;and multi-peaks can be observed from the same gas curve of real sample. The reliability and repeatability of this system are perfect and the system can be applied to study the coals decarboxylation by comparing the CO_2 evolution curves.