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In the body, the energy derived from food is released as body heat and also used in the synthesis of ATP. The energy captured in ATP is then transformed into other forms, i.e., chemical (synthesis of new compounds), mechanical (muscle contraction), electrical (nerve activity), electrochemical (various ion pumps), thermal (maintenance of body temperature), and informational (base sequences in nucleic acids, amino acids in proteins). In general, the energy of food provides for the specific dynamic action of food, the maintenance of the body s basal metabolism, and the energy expenditure associated with various types of activity. 

A basic knowledge of the physiology of the heart, the mechanism of contraction, electrical activity and control of rate and rhythm, maintenance of blood pressure and what can go wrong is needed in order to understand how the drugs work. 

Excessive Ca + influx coupled with abnormal Ca transients results in APD prolongation and irregular contractions/electrical activity An abnormal increase in late Na current caused by either delayed channel inactivation or a faster recovery from inactivation results in increase in intracellular Na loading manifested as APD prolongation... 

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In patients unable to perform voluntary muscle contractions, electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) (Fig. 4) has been used to prevent disuse muscle atrophy. In patients with... 

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Blunt injury may result from the patient falling to the floor in an uncontrolled manner or may occur rarely from violent muscular contractions. Electrical burns are rare and usually superficial. Cardiac side effects appear to be very rare, although it is theoretically possible for the TASER to interfere with the functioning of pacemakers or implanted defibrillators. Electrode barb strike in sensitive areas such as the eyes, mouth and external genitalia may have more serious consequences than strikes elsewhere. The electrode barbs are not long enough to cause a pneumothorax. 

When electricity is bought from centralized power generation companies, the price tends to be more stable than fuel costs, since power generation companies tend to negotiate long-term contracts for fuel supply. 

The price of lignite pet mined ton or pet heat unit is lower than that for higher rank coals. The market for all coals is primarily as boilet fuel for electric power production. Prices ate generally estabUshed by contracts between utiUty and suppHet before mining begins. 

Arrhythmias. The first solution to cardiovascular problems arising from arrhythmias came about as a result of a complication caused by open-heart surgery. During procedures to correct congenital defects in children s hearts, the electrical conduction system often became impaired, and until it healed, the heart could not contract sufficiently without outside electrical stimulation. A system that plugged into a wall outlet was considered adequate until an electrical storm knocked out power, lea ding to the development of the first battery-powered external pacemaker. 

One of the more intriguing cardiovascular developments is cardiomyoplasty where implantable technologies are blended with another part of the body to take over for a diseased heart. One company, Medtronic, in close collaboration with surgeons, has developed a cardiomyoplasty system to accompany a technique of wrapping back muscle around a diseased heart which can no longer adequately pump. A combination pacemaker and neurological device senses the electrical activity of the heart and correspondingly trains and stimulates the dorsal muscle to cause the defective heart to contract and pump blood. Over 50 implants have been performed to date. 

Entities involved in long-term contracts with electric utihties, such as fuel supphers and NUGs selling power to utihties, also have concerns that some utihties or industrial customers will not be able to honor their contracts under the new, more competitive system. Einahy, some utihties are concerned that they wih not be adequately reimbursed for opening up their transmission systems to competitors. The potential competitors in turn are concerned that utihties whl not provide unbiased access to their transmission systems if the utihties themselves are also in business of marketing power. There has also been some debate regarding which transmission facihties are eligible for open access. This is because some facihties are considered local distribution systems by utihties, which feel they should not be opened to competitors. 

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Fig. 1. Volume change in anisotiopic giaphite during General Electric Test Reactor (GETR) irradiations. Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-840R21400.

The Cardiac Cycle. The heart (Eig. lb) performs its function as a pump as a result of a rhythmical spread of a wave of excitation (depolarization) that excites the atrial and ventricular muscle masses to contract sequentially. Maximum pump efficiency occurs when the atrial or ventricular muscle masses contract synchronously (see Eig. 1). The wave of excitation begins with the generation of electrical impulses within the SA node and spreads through the atria. The SA node is referred to as the pacemaker of the heart and exhibits automaticity, ie, it depolarizes and repolarizes spontaneously. The wave then excites sequentially the AV node the bundle of His, ie, the penetrating portion of the AV node the bundle branches, ie, the branching portions of the AV node the terminal Purkinje fibers and finally the ventricular myocardium. After the wave of excitation depolarizes these various stmetures of the heart, repolarization occurs so that each of the stmetures is ready for the next wave of excitation. Until repolarization occurs the stmetures are said to be refractory to excitation. During repolarization of the atria and ventricles, the muscles relax, allowing the chambers of the heart to fill with blood that is to be expelled with the next wave of excitation and resultant contraction. This process repeats itself 60—100 times or beats per minute... 

Cogeneration systems will not match the varying power and heat demands at all times for most applications. Thus, an industrial cogeneration systems output frequently must be supplemented by the separate on-site generation of heat or the purchase of utility-supplied elec tric power. If the on-site electric power demand is relatively low, an alternative option is to match the cogeneration system to the heat load and contract for the sale of excess electricity to the local utihty grid. 

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