著者

Hiroto SHIBUYA Nobuhiro NAGUMO Kio KUMAGAI Atsushi SAKURAI

出版者

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and The Heat Transfer Society of Japan

雑誌

Journal of Thermal Science and Technology (ISSN:18805566)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, no.2, pp.22-00051, 2022 (Released:2022-05-18)

参考文献数

20

被引用文献数

1

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Spacecraft use photovoltaics as power-generation systems. Although photovoltaics have advantages such as no requirement of fossil fuel or moving parts, a disadvantage is that generating power without sunlight is impossible. Spacecraft require new power-generation systems that do not depend on sunlight to make power generation possible in deep space where sunlight cannot reach. In this study, a thermoradiative (TR) system was investigated. The TR system generates power by thermal radiation from the TR cells to the surrounding environment. The possibility that the TR system would be most effective in spacecraft for which the surrounding temperature is 3 K was considered. Because the power generation of the TR system depends on the amount of radiation from the TR cells, the ideal state was simulated by assuming that the TR cell emits blackbody radiation to obtain the upper limit of the power generation. Furthermore, the effects of output voltage, cell bandgap, and TR cell temperature on the power generation were investigated numerically by using a HgCdTe photodiode, and the results were compared with those for blackbody radiation.

著者

Shingo Matsumoto Rine Nakanishi Ryo Ichibayashi Mitsuru Honda Kei Hayashida Atsushi Sakurai Nobuya Kitamura Takashi Tagami Taka-aki Nakada Munekazu Takeda Takanori Ikeda SOS-KANTO Study Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-22-0047, (Released:2022-05-14)

参考文献数

35

被引用文献数

1

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Background: Heart rate (HR) predicts outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), whereas the impact of HR on outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the impact of HR after resuscitation on outcomes after OHCA and whether the impact differs with OHCA etiology.Methods and Results: Of 16,452 patients suffering from OHCA, this study analyzed 741 adults for whom HR after resuscitation was recorded by 12-lead electrocardiogram upon hospital arrival. Etiology of OHCA was categorized into 3 groups: ACS, non-ACS, and non-cardiac. Patients in each etiology group were further divided into tachycardia (>100 beats/min) and non-tachycardia (≤100 beats/min). The impact of HR on outcomes was evaluated in each group. Among the 741 patients, the mean age was 67.6 years and 497 (67.1%) patients were male. The primary outcome – 3-month all-cause mortality – was observed in 55.8% of patients. Tachycardia after resuscitation in patients with ACS was significantly associated with higher all-cause mortality at 3 months (P=0.002), but there was no significant association between tachycardia and mortality in non-ACS and non-cardiac etiology patients. In a multivariate analysis model, the incidence of tachycardia after resuscitation independently predicted higher 3-month all-cause mortality in OHCA patients with ACS (hazard ratio: 2.17 [95% confidence interval: 1.05–4.48], P=0.04).Conclusions: Increased HR after resuscitation was associated with higher mortality only in patients with ACS.