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Purpose |
The purpose of this paper is to assess the thermal protective performance of firefighter’s clothing by a sweating manikin in low-level radiation. |
Design/methodology/approach |
A new method and a novel objective index based on measurements of the sweating thermal manikin are proposed to measure the thermal protection performance of firefighter’s clothing under low-level radiation exposure of 3.0 kW/m2. Finally, the effect of thermal insulation on thermal protective performance of firefighter’... |
Findings |
The results reveal that the new index which used the changing rate of core temperature of the clothed manikin is a vital indicator of the thermal protection performance. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that there is a linear correlation between thermal protection performance of firefighter’s clothing and the ther... |
Originality/value |
A new method and a novel objective index are proposed to quantify the thermal protective performance of firefighter’s clothing in low-level radiation. |
When the Immunoreactions Don't Help. |
The practice of pathology has undergone numerous "eras" since the time of Rudolf Carl Virchow (18211902), considered the father of modern pathology, who published a book entitled Cellular Pathology in 1858 that has left an indelible footprint for much of the discipline of studying/diagnosing disease as we know it today... |
Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and nerve growth factor (NGF) are two neurotrophic factors that play a role in neuronal maintenance and repair. The identification and characterization of mechanisms regulating neurotrophic factor availability in the central nervous system are vital to the development of therapeuti... |
The present work gives a survey of the various methods for the histochemical demonstration of cholinergic nervous structures. The theoretical background and the specificity and sensitivity of the various methods are compared. It is concluded that the histochemical localization of the cholinergic transmitter metabolizin... |
129I is a long-lived (1.6 × 107 y) radionuclide that is produced in nature as the result of spontaneous fission of heavy elements and reaction of xenon with cosmic rays. Recently, however, artificial sources from nuclear power plants and nuclear test explosions have become a significant component of environmental radio... |
Abstract: Hypothyroidism is associated with many characteristic cutaneous manifestations; however, to the best of our knowledge, it has not previously been linked to psoriasiform lesions or multiple abscesses. We describe a previously healthy 15‐year‐old girl with psoriasiform lesions, abscesses, and extremely severe ... |
Five cases of respiratory failure with pneumonia in psychiatric patients under-going neuroleptic treatment are described. These complications are related to the very important extrapyramidal syndrome which may occur in patients being treated with these drugs; the pneumonia evolves spontaneously and has a rather poor pr... |
To evaluate the effects of prostaglandin E<sub>1</sub> (PGE<sub>1</sub>) on the hepatic circulation in cholestasis, hepatic arterial blood flow (HAF), portal venous blood flow (PVF), cardiac output, and heart rate during PGE<sub>1</sub> infusions were investigated before and 2 weeks after biliary obstruction in conscio... |
Background: Iron accumulation in deep grey matter (GM) structures is a consistent finding in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. This study focused on the identification of independent determinants of iron accumulation using R2* mapping. Subjects and methods: Ninety-seven MS patients and 81 healthy controls were included... |
This article discusses the roles of academic library Web sites, summarises the findings of research aimed at comparing the contents and usability of Polish and American academic library Web sites and presents conclusions regarding the basic functions they perform. Twenty-five Polish and 25 American Web sites were evalu... |
Previous research points to a significant impact of social integration and self-esteem on well-being. The present study examined whether self-esteem constitutes one pathway from social integration in the classroom to mental and physical well-being of students and accordingly serves as a mediator. Therefore, 163 student... |
Charge-ordered manganites of composition Pr1 − x(Ca1 − ySry)xMnO3 exhibit persistent photoconductivity upon exposure to X-rays. This is not always accompanied by a significant increase in the number of conduction electrons as predicted by conventional models of persistent photoconductivity. An analysis of the X-ray dif... |
We propose a novel approach based on model checking for automated non-linear service composition. Modeling services as interleaved processes, we formulate the service composition problem as verifying a safety property and show that multiple non-linear compositions can be constructed from the counter-example. The state ... |
In recent paper (‘p‐adic coupling of mock modular forms and shadows’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, to appear), Guerzhoy, Kent, and Ono prove a result in the theory of harmonic weak Maass forms on the p‐adic coupling of mock modular forms and their shadows. As an application, they construct a sequence of weakly holomorph... |
We studied the effect of the oral administration of a water-soluble antioxidant solution containing ascorbic acid, glutathione, and a precursor for glutathione synthesis, N-Acetyl-L-cysteine, on liver antioxidant activity, liver cell energetics, and mortality in rats in response to a 20% third-degree burn injury challe... |
In this paper, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for general d -dimensional arrays of random variables to satisfy strong law of large numbers. Then, we apply the result to obtain some strong laws of large numbers for d -dimensional arrays of blockwise independent and blockwise orthogonal random variables.... |
In recent years, there has been more of an emphasis on student success in colleges and universities. This paper is a comparison of student success, specifically course completion, in an introductory programming course. Three sections of the course were offered in two consecutive semesters. The same instructor taught ea... |
Hydropower generation is the main source of electric energy in Brazil and the West and Southwest of Paraná. Year after year the energy matrix has been diversifying, including new sources, such as wind power. However, due to the power accumulation characteristic of hydropower, this type of source is important for the st... |
The pharmacokinetics of ethoxycoumarin have been characterized using steady-state plasma concentrations achieved after administration of this compound, at a series of infusion rates, into the hepatic portal vein of rats. The clearance of ethoxycoumarin could be described by a one-site Michaelis-Menten kinetic model wit... |
A novel two‐ and four‐port antenna structure are proposed to achieve improved isolation and operate in the ultrawideband (UWB) frequency range. The projected designs comprise a hybrid circular and rectangular embedded UWB antenna with a partial ground plane. The alteration of the radiating and ground planes modifies th... |
Mitigation of tin whiskers on tin plated components is a critical issue that must be addressed by the electronics industry prior to the implementation of lead-free processing. The study of whisker formation and growth in alternative material systems may provide insight into mechanisms for whisker behavior in tin system... |
In this paper we address the issue of life logging information retrieval and we introduce an approach that uses the output of a hierarchical clustering of data via assessing word similarities. Word similarity is computed using WordNet and Retina ontologies. We have tested our method during the 2017 ImageCLEF Lifelog ch... |
p53 is a tumor-suppressor gene whose disruption or loss is implicated in development or progression of several types of human cancer. Its inactivation is mainly caused by point mutations in the coding sequence of exons 5 to 9 in one allele, with or without loss of the other allele. Burkitt’s lymphoma is a subgroup of n... |
Abstract. Increasing evidence suggests that leukaemias are sustained by leukaemic stem cells. Leukaemia can indeed be viewed as aberrant haematopoietic processes initiated by rare leukaemic stem cells that have maintained or reacquired the capacity for indefinite proliferation through accumulated mutations and/or epig... |
It has been argued that schizophrenic delusions are “behaviourally inert.” This is evidence for the phenomenon of “double bookkeeping,” according to which people are not consistent in their commitment to the content of their delusions. The traditional explanation for the phenomenon is that people do not genuinely belie... |
Percutaneous respiration was studied in 32 newborn infants between 25 and 41 weeks gestation, using a closed skin cell attached to the abdomen. Gas exchange rates in the first few days of life were 6-11 times faster in infants below 30 weeks gestation than in term infants (mean O2 absorption 25.0 vs. 206.5 ml/m2/h, and... |
We describe the contents of an advanced undergraduate course on photonics at School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. The main goal of the course is to equip the student with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to participate in photonics-related industry and... |
With the development of technology, the proportion of renewable energy with stochastic and intermittent characteristic, like wind power, photovoltaic power, is higher and higher in generation side, which results in the controllability of power generation decreases. And accordingly, the potential of demand response rece... |
We present an optimal, efficient power allocation algorithm for discrete multitone modulation (DMT). Using efficient lookup table searches and a Lagrange multiplier bisection search, our algorithm converges much faster to the optimal solution than existing techniques and can replace the use of suboptimal methods becaus... |
Tardive Dyskinesia and Parkinsonism SIR: Tardive dyskinesia (TD) and drug induced Parkinsonism (PS) both occur in association with the use of neuroleptics. The co-existence of TD and PS has been documented (McCreadie et al, 1982) but interest has mainly centred on the unmasking or the amelioration ofdyskinesia either b... |
The population of a hospital for people with a mental handicap was surveyed and numerous variables analysed with regard to people displaying self-injurious behaviour (SIB). It is suggested that age, level of mental handicap, activities in which the person is engaged, and having no expressive language each has a signifi... |
monks envisaged their monastery as a 'schola', an 'urx', a gymnasium'; they endowed it with the Ciceronian ideal of the villa as a place of philosophical 'otium', 'Pax Benedictina' succeeded the 'Pax Romane', and Alfanus transferred to St Benedict the title 'Fundato« quietis' inscribed on the Arch ofConstantine. This s... |
BACKGROUND |
Recently, in consideration of the rapidly increasing demand for meat products and the trend towards fast food consumption, the prepared boneless pork chop, as a new style of value-added product, is cut from pork loins and welcomed by consumers after marinating or further cooking. The effect of different tumbling marina... |
RESULTS |
The CT treatment significantly increased T22 peak area ratio compared with other treatments (P < 0.05). Histological microstructure results showed that CT treatment significantly increased solubility of salt-soluble proteins and decreased muscle fiber diameter compared with other treatments (P < 0.05). The net enthalpy... |
CONCLUSION |
These results suggest that CT treatment was more effective in improving the water mobility and distribution, promoting the denaturation of muscle protein and accelerating the marinade efficiency of pork chops compared with other treatments. Thus CT treatment should be adopted.Portal-time and wanderlines: What does viru... |
This paper emerged from the forces of a pandemic that invited us to wrestle with what ‘virusing-with’ might potentiate in educational research-creation (Manning, 2016a). We sense the Coronavirus perform its agency on childhood in the Capitalocene in new, troubling, and sometimes hopeful ways. Research-creation has comp... |
Purpose: Healthcare information is easily accessible on YouTube, however it is unregulated and the quality may vary considerably. This study characterised and evaluated the content on YouTube regarding corneal transplantation surgery.Methods: YouTube was searched using ‘corneal transplant’ and the variations for penet... |
The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) offers the prospect of discovering associations with rare variants that are not effectively tagged by currently available chip technologies [1], but has posed major challenges to the statistical genetics community. Aside from the sheer logistical problems of storage, clean... |
The ultrastructure of the three specialized bone cells are described in relation to their function. Osteoblasts are the bone forming cells with an abundance of RER and a large Golgi area. Osteoblasts and osteocytes form an integrated cell system connected with each other by cell processes filled with actin-like filamen... |
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