Little Sister is a happy, beachy restaurant with mayhem in its soul: Black Flag lyrics stenciled on its walls, gangsta rap pulsing on the sound system and a menu of Asian small eats tweaked toward the palette of fermented flavors, dried fish and gooey textures more common in the San Gabriel Valley than they are in Manhattan Beach.
Away from the cameras and the boom mikes and the rap music pulsing at the other end of the locker room, Wade looked down and closed his eyes.
The music pulsing just below the threshold of recognizability isn't generic electronica, it's gangsta rap, which was born in a Torrance recording studio also not far from here.
"SexyBack" is an "urgent, pulsing track, a cocktail of soaring, distorted vocals and heavy, electronic chords threaded together with rap", according to Camilla Long from The Observer.
Complete hemodynamic measurements, including pulmonary artery occluded pressure (PAOP), right atrial pressure (RAP), pulse pressure variation (ΔPP) and inspiratory variation in RAP were obtained before and after fluid challenge.
CO: Cardiac output; CPTT: Cardiopulmonary transit time; CVP: Central venous pressure; IPPV: Intermittent positive pressure ventilation; PEEP: Positive end-expiratory pressure; Pms: Mean systemic filling pressure; PPV: Pulse pressure variation; RAP: Right atrial pressure; RVSV: Right ventricular stroke volume; VE: Volume expansion; VR: Venous return.
In this work, they also introduced the concept of pulse pressure variability (denoted RAP) as a measure of compensatory reserve of the craniospinal compliance, and showed that this measure can be used to distinguish patients who will recover from those who will not [ 84]. Figure 11 illustrates the elements of the RAP technique.
42 Superstar bloat The Watcher 2, from Jay-Z's The Blueprint 2 featured Dre, Rakim and Truth Hurts, a line-up that still sets the rap fiend's pulse racing, yet doesn't quite add up to the sum of its considerable parts.
The following hemodynamic variables were monitored continuously for 4 h of hypoxia: mean systemic arterial pressure (SAP), mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP), right atrial pressure (RAP), heart rate, pulse oximetry oxygen saturation (Nellcor, Hayward, CA, USA), pulmonary blood flow, portal venous flow and hepatic arterial flow.
If you'd rather have The Now of hip-hop, read Noz's blog, Cocaine Blunts, which alternates between Talmudic parsing of regional rap forms and blog-pulse updates on working m.c.s.
