Their approach to the question was ambitious and novel. Anyone who reads the critical care literature knows that it is difficult to find differences in clinical outcomes when comparing modes of ...

The Irish scientist Robert Boyle investigated the relationship between pressure and volume in the 17th century. He trapped a bubble of air at the sealed end of a J-shaped tube using liquid mercury. He ...

A method is described for estimating volume in higher-plant cells from their behaviour under pressure probe. The method utilises differences between initial and final equilibrium turgor pressures ...