A new bulk severe plastic deformation method based on repetitive forging (RF) using inclined punches is proposed. This process consists of two half cycles. In the first half cycle, a square cross section deforms to parallelogram by forging with two inclined punches, and the parallelogram cross section is forged back to square using two flat punches in the second half cycle. This method was appl...

A multistate outbreak of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium recently occurred in the USA, which was traced back to various food products made with contaminated peanut butter. This study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of radio-frequency (RF) heating to inactivate S. Typhimurium and Escherichia coli O157:H7 in peanut butter cracker sandwiches using creamy and chunky commercial pea...

total igm, iga, and igm-rheumatoid factor (rf) and iga-rf were quantitated in the serum and synovial fluid of 35 seropositive and 8 seronegative rheumatoid arthritis (ra) patients, using a sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa). mononuclear cells isolated from peripheral blood and synovial fluid of three seropositive patients were also stimulated in vitro with phorbol myristate ace...

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

In the Pacific Northwest, alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is host to two species of root-knot nematodes, including race 2 of the Columbia root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne chitwoodi) and the northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla). In addition to the damage caused to alfalfa itself by M. hapla, alfalfa's host status to both species leaves large numbers of nematodes available to damage rotation ...

INTRODUCTION Currently with 7 tesla (T) and other ultra-high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the B1 magnetic fields have a high degree of inhomogeneity with stock MRI configuration. B1 inhomogeneity can lead to the creation of artifacts in the medical image and result in misdiagnosis of medical ailments [1]. Along with artifacts, distortions of both the geometry and intensity of the res...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the role of contrast-enhanced dynamic CT in the diagnosis of active tuberculoma. SETTING Hospitals with an isolated ward for tuberculosis. METHODS Fifty-five subjects with newly diagnosed active tuberculoma and 24 subjects with inactive tuberculoma were examined and evaluated retrospectively. Six subjects with active tuberculomas and seven subjects with inactive t...

BACKGROUND In hemodialysis patients, deviations from KDIGO recommended values of individual parameters, phosphate, calcium or parathyroid hormone (PTH), are associated with increased mortality. However, it is widely accepted that these parameters are not regulated independently of each other and that therapy aimed to correct one parameter often modifies the others. The aim of the present study ...