La machine à vapeur dans l’aérostation au XIXe siècle by Molveau, Jean

“…The first credible attempt, in 1852, was made by Henri Giffard, who used a steam engine under the envelope of his elongated balloon inflated with hydrogen... It was the first motorised aircraft in the history of mankind!…”
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Unexamined faiths and the public place of religion: emerging insights from the law by Iain T. Benson

“…The law must not, by inflating its own role, put added pressures on the liberty that accommodation and subsidiarity require. …”
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Transcutaneous Puncture of an Undeflatable Coronary Angioplasty Balloon Catheter by Gregor Leibundgut, Christian Degen, Florian Riede

“…After a pullback into the radial artery, the still inflated balloon became stuck again and was unable to be retrieved through the sheath. …”
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Giant Adult Mesenteric Lipoma: A Rare Cause of Chronic Abdominal Distention and Discomfort by Houssam Khodor Abtar, Fahed Kheireddine Abdallah, Rayan Said Lakkis, Jad Jamal Terro, Nathalie Haidar Ismail, Mohammad Ahmad Al Raishouni, Houssein Haidar Ahmad, Kassem Mohammad Jammoul

“…The patient was seen by a general practitioner after complaining of an inflated abdomen, as he described his condition. After several imaging studies, he was diagnosed with one of the largest mesenteric lipomas in the literature. …”
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Application of Saline Infusion Sonocolpography in Diagnosis and Treatment of Perforated Transverse Vaginal Septum by Ayumi Ono, Iori Kisu, Tomoko Iijma, Hiroshi Senba, Kiyoko Matsuda, Motoko Katayama, Ayaka Iura, Yumiko Miura, Nobumaru Hirao

“…Foley catheters with inflated balloon were inserted into the two apertures, and then normal saline was injected through the catheters to distend the vaginal pouch. …”
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Stents in Renal Artery Bifurcation Stenosis: A Case Report by Polytimi Leonardou, Paris Pappas

“…The “kissing balloon” technique was then attempted by simultaneously inflating both branches using the same balloons, but more than a 70% residual stenosis persisted in each branch. …”
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Effects of Strain Rates on Kinetics of Elements of Repeated Pattern Structures: A Continuous Modeling Approach by A. Salehian

“…Space inflatable technology is a promising solution to placing large metrology systems in space. …”
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Motion – All Patients with GERD Should Be Offered Once in a Lifetime Endoscopy: Arguments against the Motion by James W Freston

“…A decision analysis found that surveillance of BE patients is performed because of inflated estimates of the rate of progression from BE to EAC. …”
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Anterior mediastinal tracheostomy – a salvage procedure for tracheal necrosis after thyroidectomy for medullary thyroid cancer: a case-report by Hanan Hemead, Akshay J. Patel, Hannah Jesani, Sajith Kumar, Irfan Ahmed, Sat Parmar, Robert Warner, Neil Sharma, Maninder S. Kalkat

“…The wound was opened, drained and an endotracheal tube was negotiated through the sloughed trachea into the distal intrathoracic trachea with the cuff inflated just above the carina. This complication was managed with total pharyngo-laryngectomy, anterior deep mediastinal tracheostomy and construction of a neo-cervical oesophagus with a free lateral thigh fascio-cutaneous flap. …”
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Reniscymnus gen. nov., a new genus of Scymnini (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from the Oriental region by Feng Peng, Mingjie Tang, Xingmin Wang, Xiaosheng Chen

“…This newly identified genus can be distinguished from the remaining members of the tribe Scymnini by its short antenna consisting of eight antennomeres and an inflated antennal club bearing two extremely long setae; the narrow frons; the slightly tapering apically terminal maxillary palpomere; as well as the recurved and laterally almost complete abdominal postcoxal lines that enclose a distinctly wide area. …”
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Intravascular Lithotripsy for Underexpanded Stent in Heavily Calcified Coronary Artery Disease by Tejas Raxwal, Cauvery Balhara, Dipak Parekh

“…However, after multiple inflations with noncompliant balloon, the patient was noted to have persistent residual in stent stenosis of 70%. …”
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Do the Effects of ICT Use on Trip Generation Vary across Travel Modes? Evidence from Beijing by Chaoying Yin, Xiaoquan Wang, Chunfu Shao

“…Based on the data of 1022 respondents collected by a web-based questionnaire survey in Beijing, this study used a zero-inflated Poisson model to investigate the effects of ICT use on trip generation in different travel modes, in which ICT use was measured by both the time spent online and the Internet use frequency. …”
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Re-evaluating evidence for giant genomes in amoebae by Daniel Barzilay, João P. B. Alcino, Giulia M. Ribeiro, Alfredo L. P. Sousa, Daniel J. G. Lahr

“…Traditionally, estimates relied on inaccurate methods like DNA weight measurements, leading to inflated sizes. These methods failed to account for contaminating DNA from prey, endosymbionts, and intrinsic genomic features like ribosomal operon amplification. …”
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Calculations of extreme sea level rise scenarios are strongly dependent on ice sheet model resolution by C. Rosie Williams, Pierre Thodoroff, Robert J. Arthern, James Byrne, J. Scott Hosking, Markus Kaiser, Neil D. Lawrence, Ieva Kazlauskaite

“…Our ice-sheet model simulations show that coarser resolutions tend to project a larger range of sea-level contributions than finer resolutions, inflating the tails of the distribution. We therefore caution against relying purely upon simulations 5 km or coarser when assessing the potential for societally important high-impact sea-level rise.…”
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Meta-cognitive Therapy in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Case Report by Ayushi Gaur, Shivali Sharma, Shweta Singh

“…Additionally, it shows the potency of MCT in prolonged improvements in cognitive flexibility and inflated feelings of responsibility and perfection.…”
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Kontrowersje wokół powstania człowieka - wstępna analiza ankiet studentów by Jacek Tomczyk, Grzegorz Bugajak

“…For we cannot exclude the possibility that these controversies have no factual ground and their significance is inflated by American popular literature. If, on the other hand, we assume that the conflict is real, it should be worthwhile examining its sources. …”
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Workforce and Contents of Home Dental Care in Japanese Insurance System by Yoshiaki Nomura, Ayako Okada, Erika Kakuta, Ryoko Otsuka, Hideaki Saito, Hiroshi Maekawa, Hideki Daikoku, Nobuhiro Hanada, Tamotsu Sato

“…Correspondence analysis, item response theory, and zero-inflated model were used for the analysis. Results. …”
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A new species of the lenticel fungal genus Claviradulomyces (Ostropales) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest tree Xylopia sericea (Annonaceae) by Robert W. Barreto, Peter R. Johnston, Pedro W. Crous, Harry C. Evans

“…Apothecial ascomata have periphysoids and paraphyses that are inflated apically (clavate), and ornamented with denticles (raduliform). …”
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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding by Markku Niskanen

“…Chariotry began to spread together with DOM2 horses after 2000 BC, but its high archaeological visibility may have inflated its importance, since chariots are of limited practical use for herding and other daily tasks.…”
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Enterovesical Fistula: A Rare Complication of Urethral Catheterization by Amr Hawary, Laurence Clarke, Alasdair Taylor, Peter Duffy

“…On laparotomy she was found to have an inflated catheter balloon that has eroded through the bladder wall into the lumen of a terminal ileal segment. …”
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