Electical breakdown

Surgery rarely plays a role in the initial management of UI but can be required for secondary complications (e.g., skin breakdown or infection). Otherwise, the decision to surgically treat symptomatic UI requires that lifestyle compromise warrants an elective operation and that nonoperative therapy be proven undesirable or ineffective. 

In the meantime, the mental condition of Carothers deteriorated inexorably. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1936. But he had another breakdown in the summer of 1936, and finally, in April 1937, he committed suicide with cyanide in a Philadelphia hotel room. At Christmas 1937, the Van Raalte Mill in New Jersey finally turned out full-fashioned hosiery with excellent appearance and free of defects. They distributed 56 hosiery and lingerie garments to wives of the men on the nylon project. The majority of the women thought that the stockings were very durable, but they wrinkled too easily and were too lustrous and slippery. 

Vb is the breakdown voltage, is the election density, T is the neutral gas temperature, is the election temperature... 

FIGURE 3 Total electron-attachment rate constant as a function of the mean electron energy s) for the perfluoroalkanes CA/F2A/+2 (N= -6) and their dc uniform field breakdown voltages relative to SFe. [From Christophorou, L. G., et al. (1984), IEEE Trans. Elect. Insul. El-19, 550-566.]... 

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