P a t i e n t s 313 adults who were ≥ 18 years of age (73% women), had ≥ 3 months of chronic lowback pain, and had pain while lying in bed or on rising. Exclusion criteria were referred pain; habitual prostration; possible systemic disease, inflammatory disease, or cancer; diagnosis or suspicion of fibromyalgia; pregnancy; habitually sleeping in a different bed ≥ 2 nights/wk; use of antiinflamm...

development of ultrasound technique has not been progressing for evaluating the internal quality of fruits as fast as that of processed foods. in this research for quality assessment of pear fruit (shah miveh variety) an ultrasonic measurement system was constructed to transmit and receive the ultrasonic waves. the apparatus included a pulser-receiver, a pair of 75 khz ultrasonic transducers wi...

Pear trees (Pyrus communis L.), cv. d’Anjou, received foliar applications of X-77 surfactant and 32.3 mM CaCl2 at 55, 85, 125, and 137 days after full bloom (DAFB) and fruit were harvested at 147 DAFB. Samples of fruit were stored in air either at 20 °C continuously or at 5 or 10 °C for several periods, then transferred to 20 °C, to determine the effects of storage temperature and CaCl2 treatme...