Herein, we investigated the effects of passive heat stress on human somatosensory processing recorded by somatosensory-evoked potentials (SEPs). Fifteen healthy subjects received a median nerve stimulation at the left wrist under two thermal conditions: Heat Stress and normothermic Time Control. The latencies and amplitudes of P14, N20, P25, N35, P45, and N60 at C4' and P14, N18, P22, and N30 a...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-20 (formerly Joint Polar Satellite System-1) is a polar-orbiting weather satellite launched on November 18, 2017. Visible-Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) one of five instruments onboard NOAA-20 (N20), it jointed orbit the previous VIIRS instrument operating Suomi NPP (SNPP) spacecraft since 2011. During post-launch testing, accura...

Johannesen 2 has discussed a Rayleigh-line method for the analysis of vibrational relaxation regions in shock waves. In this method the flow of the real gas in the relaxation region is treated as the flow of an ideal gas (termed the ~-gas by Johannesen) with heat extraction. The Rayleigh-line method is readily adapted for use on a computer; programs based on this method have been used to deal w...

We studied the effects of adding water, nitrate and sucrose on denitrification in a riparian forest that receives nitrate in drainage from cornfields. We used large (3-6 m2) flow-through chambers to sample N 2 0 emissions from surface soils. N2 emissions were estimated by comparing N 2 0 efflux in chambers with or without acetylene addition. Water and solutions of nitrate or sucrose were sprink...

BACKGROUND Somatosensory evoked potentials may add substantial prognostic value in patients with acute ischemic stroke and contribute to the selection of who benefit from revascularization therapies beyond accepted therapeutic time windows. We aimed study accuracy N20 somatosensory potential component hemisphere anterior large‐vessel occlusion undergoing endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). METHODS...

Following the 1900 congress in Paris, the beginning of the 20th century saw comparative law emerge as a significant discipline. This paper suggests that the early 21st century is seeing the decline, or maybe even the ‘end’, of comparative law. In contrast to other claims which see the 21st century as the ‘era of comparative law’, there are at least four trends which give rise to pessimism: ‘the...

We previously firstly reported very high frequency oscillations (VHFOs, over 1,000 Hz) in somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) recorded by subdural electrodes following median nerve stimulation on 6 patients. In this study, we fatherly studied the characteristics and the clinical significance of VHFOs) in SEP elicited by stimulating not only the median, but also the ulnar nerves. Conventional ...

Rats exposed to N20 show a decrease in liver folate to about 25% of the initial value after 10 days. There is a transient increase in the amount of 5-methylterrahydropteroylpolyglutamate in the first 24 h, but thereafter the content decreases. The level of 5-methyltetrahydropterolymonoglutamate declines without any transitory increase. The transient accumulation of 5-methyltetrahydropteroylpoly...

The stoichiometric relationship between thiol oxidized and NO reduced was studied for the reaction catalyzed by nitric oxide reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans. The reaction systems consisted of dithiothreitol, ascorbate, phenazine methosulfate, enzyme and NO, or that system minus ascorbate. The mole ratio of thiol groups oxidized to NO reduced was observed to be 2.3 to 1.5 over a range of...

Forty children undergoing adenoidectomy were randomized to receive halothane (0.5-1.5%) or alfentanil (50 I~g bolus followed by 0.5-1.5 I~g kg 1 min-1 infusion) anaesthesia. All patients received N20 and vecuronium. All patients in the alfentanil group required supplemental boluses of alfentanil (10 lag kg -1) to control intraoperative hypertension. Emergence, recovery and discharge times as we...