rational prescribing increases the quality of health care and patient outcomes. in this study, the quality of drug prescription in specialist physicians in isfahan province of iran was assessed for evaluating the rational use of drugs and improving the therapeutic outcomes.this retrospective survey was conducted on a total of 7999530 prescriptions from all general and specialist physicians. the...

Previously we have shown in dogs that tibial bone marrow and s.c. tissue temperatures are lower than rectal temperature during the plateau phase of whole body hyperthermia with the use of a radiant heating device. In an attempt to increase thermal dose to these sites during whole body hyperthermia, we applied insulation to an extremity prior to the plateau phase of heating. We found that extrem...

Ahstraet-A linear perturbation method is used to solve the two-dimensional heat conduction problem in which a liquid, initially at the melting temperature, becomes solidified by heat transfer to a plane mold the temperature of which is approximately uniform, but contains a small sinusoidal perturbation in one space dimension. Results are obtained for the consequent sinusoidal perturbation in th...

We analyze transient heat conduction in a thick functionally graded plate by using a higher-order plate theory and a meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method. The temperature field is expanded in the thickness direction by using Legendre polynomials as basis functions. For temperature prescribed on one or both major surfaces of the plate, modified Lagrange polynomials are used as basis and ...

This paper describes an interdisciplinary design project which was done under the author’s supervision by a group of four senior students in the Department of Engineering Science at Trinity University. The objective of the project was to develop a temperature control system for an air-filled chamber. The system was to allow entry of a desired chamber temperature in a prescribed range and to exh...

PURPOSE Patients with diabetes are often prescribed foot orthoses to help prevent foot ulcer formation. Orthotics are used to redistribute normal and shear stress. Shear stresses are not easily measurable and considered to be responsible for skin breakdown. Local elevation of skin temperature has been implicated as an early sign of impending ulceration especially in regions of high shear stress...

This study tested the success of fuel reduction treatments for mitigating wildfire behavior in an area that has had little previous research on fire, the southern Appalachian Mountains. A secondary objective of treatments was to restore the community to an open woodland condition. Three blocks of four treatments were installed in a mature hardwood forest in western North Carolina. Fuel reductio...

BACKGROUND Fever is common in children and often self-limiting, nevertheless antibiotics are frequently prescribed. We determined how often antibiotics were prescribed in children presenting with fever at a family physicians' out-of-hours service and established the children's signs and symptoms related to antibiotic prescriptions. PATIENTS Children aged 3 months to 6 years with fever as the ...