PURPOSE Vasomotor symptoms are common adverse effects of antiestrogen hormone treatment in conventional breast cancer care. Hormone replacement therapy is contraindicated in patients with breast cancer. Venlafaxine (Effexor), the therapy of choice for these symptoms, has numerous adverse effects. Recent studies suggest acupuncture may be effective in reducing vasomotor symptoms in menopausal wo...

Introduction: Hot flashes (HF) and night sweats (NS) are due to vasomotor instability and could be recognized as cardiovascular risk markers. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between vasomotor instability and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in postmenopausal women.  Materials and Methods: This observational cross sectional study, was performed in Chamran Hospit...

A new ultra-rapid process of flash spark plasma sintering is developed. The idea of flash spark plasma sintering (or flash hot pressing - FHP) stems from the conducted theoretical analysis of the role of thermal runaway phenomena for material processing by flash sintering. The major purpose of the present study is to theoretically analyze the thermal runaway nature of flash sintering and to exp...

A skin conductance monitoring system was developed and shown to reliably acquire and record hot flash events in both supervised laboratory and unsupervised ambulatory conditions. The 7.2 × 3.8 × 1.2 cm(3) monitor consists of a disposable adhesive patch supporting two hydrogel electrodes and a reusable, miniaturized, enclosed electronic circuit board that snaps onto the electrodes. The monitor m...

The performance of recent mobile devices is highly related to storage and file system. However, the current EXT4 file system is not optimized for NAND flash memory. In this paper, we propose a novel flash-aware file system block allocation technique, which reserves several address regions for hot file. The scheme significantly reduces the garbage collection overhead within the flash memory. In ...

Vasomotor symptoms or hot flushes are periods of intense heat, sweating and peripheral vasodilation. Hot flushes and night sweats are the most commonly reported symptoms in menopausal women, affecting approximately 73% of women [1]. It has been suggested that vasomotor symptoms are triggered by a small elevation of core body temperature above the narrowed thermoneutral zone [2]. This central me...

Abstract—In flash memory, hot data identification has a critical impact on its performance (due to a garbage collection) as well as its lifespan (due to a wear leveling). Although it is an issue of paramount importance in flash memory, little investigation has been made. Moreover, all existing schemes focus almost exclusively on a frequency viewpoint. However, recency also must be considered eq...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of conducting a randomized trial of the effect of acupuncture in decreasing hot flashes in peri- and postmenopausal women. DESIGN Fifty-six women ages 44 to 55 with no menses in the past 3 months and at least four hot flashes per day were recruited from two clinical centers and randomized to one of three treatment groups: usual care (n = 19), sham acup...

During the menopausal transition, women frequently develop vasomotor symptoms. However, unpleasant symptoms may accompany this which can have a severe influence on daily functioning and overall quality of life. This article discusses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for suffering from such as worry, stress, poor mood, hot flushes, night sweats, well how thoughts, physical symptoms, behaviour...