Pruritus (itching) is a common and distressing complaint after injury. The purpose of this study was to investigate self-reported postburn pruritus in a large, multisite cohort study of adult burn survivors. Descriptive statistics, general linear regression, and mixed model repeated measures analyses were employed to test statistical significance. Two cohorts of adult burn survivors were studie...

Over the past decade or more, contradictory evidence of Martian climate, indicating that surface temperatures seldom if ever approach the melting point of water at midlatitudes, and geomorphic features, consistent with liquid flows at these same latitudes, have proven difficult to reconcile. In this article, we demonstrate that several features of liquid-erosional flows can be produced by dry g...

Two series of supported V,O,/TiO, and MoO,/TiO, catalysts were synthesized using different preparation methods to determine the possible influence of the preparation procedures upon the final molecular structures of the catalysts. It has been found by means of ambient and in situ Raman spectroscopy that all the employed preparation methods lead to the same types of surface metal oxide species o...

The sporulation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is characterized by an increase in dry weight without cell division. At least 67% of the dry weight increase is due to the synthesis of cellular carbohydrates consisting of trehalose and insoluble components. The insoluble carbohydrates accumulate only during the period preceding the actual formation of visible ascospores. The trehalose accumulates th...

The visual acuity of five divers in a dry pressure chamber was measured with a Landolt C test. Only one of them showed a significant reduction at 7.0 atm. These results contrast sharply with open sea experiments, which show a considerable reduction at much lower pressures (Baddeley, 1968). It is suggested that besides stresses, luminance differences, also turbidity, as a function of depth may a...

We extend and apply theories of filled foam elasticity and failure to recently available data on foods. The predictions of elastic modulus and failure mode dependence on internal pressure and on wall integrity are borne out by photographic evidence of distortion and failure under compressive loading and under the localized stress applied by a knife blade, and by mechanical data on vegetables di...

Hydrocarbon contamination of unsaturated soils has been a serious environmental problem for decades. Two of the most common methods of remediating these sites are soil vapour extraction (SVE) and bioventing. Predictive models have been developed for the SVE and bioventing processes in order to estimate mass transfer coefficients for experimental systems and clean up times for field sites. These...

Objective: To measure various optical parameters in skin sample of chicken. Methods: We illuminated the chicken breast skin tissues with collimated radiation of 400-700 nm Nd-YAG pumped dye laser, and measured skin optical properties for dry and hydrated sample in vitro. Total reflectance and transmitted intensities were recorded by which scattering, absorption and anisotropic factors of the sa...

in this research seed of twelve population of iranian onion were gathered from different part of country (horand ahar, germez rey, goligesa zanjan, germez azarshahr, sefid kashan, zard neishabur, sefid gom, dorche esfahan, sefid neishabur, germez neishabur, sefid fathabad, es hag abad neishabur). the experiment was factorial based on a randomized complete block design (rcbd) was conducted in ag...

The Japanese mugwort, Artemisia princeps (yomogi in Japanese), has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Skin care products containing Artemisia princeps extract (APE) are known to improve dry skin symptoms in atopic dermatitis. Atopic dry skin is associated with a marked reduction of skin barrier proteins, such as filaggrin (FLG) and loricrin (LOR). Recently, aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AH...