BACKGROUND The aim of this systematic review was to update, complete, and critically evaluate the evidence from placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of ginseng for managing menopausal women's health. METHODS We searched the literature using 13 databases (MEDLINE, AMED, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, 6 Korean Medical, and 3 Chinese Databases) from their inception to July 2016 an...

OBJECTIVE 7-Hydroxymaitairesinol (7-HMR) is a naturally occurring plant lignan found in whole grains and the Norway spruce (Piciea abies). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bioavailability of a proprietary 7-HMR product (HMRlignan, Linnea SA, Locarno, Switzerland) through measurement of lignan metabolites and metabolic precursors. METHODS A single-blind, parallel, pharmacokinetic ...

The technical reports in this series are considered to be semi-formal. The ideas expressed are solely those of the authors, and questions about the content should be directed to them. Abstract Today's Internet periodically suffers from hot spots, a.k.a., flash crowds. A hot spot is typically triggered by some unanticipated news event that causes an unanticipated surge of users to request data o...

PURPOSE Vasomotor symptoms, such as hot flashes and night sweats, in breast cancer survivors are often worsened by chemotherapy and tamoxifen, and/or the discontinuation of hormone replacement therapy at diagnosis. This study evaluated the acceptability and effectiveness of a soy beverage containing phytoestrogens as a treatment for hot flashes in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. METH...

Today’s Internet periodically suffers from hot spots, a.k.a., flash crowds. A hot spot is typically triggered by some unanticipated news event that causes an unanticipated surge of users to request data objects from a particular site, temporarily overwhelming the site’s delivery capabilities. During this time, the large majority of users that attempt to get these objects face the frustrating ex...

Internet data centers host multiple Web applications on shared hardware resources. These data centers are typically provisioned to meet the expected peak demands of the hosted applications based on normal time-of-day effects. Such an over-provisioning approach is not robust to flash crowd scenarios, where the load increase of some hosted applications is much higher than their expected peak load...

Recent UV observations of the most massive Galactic globular clusters show a significant population of hot stars below the zero-age HB (“blue hook” stars), which cannot be explained by canonical stellar evolution. Stars which suffer unusually large mass loss on the red giant branch and thus experience the heliumcore flash while descending the white dwarf cooling curve could populate this region...

In this present work, two methods for dispersing carbon nanotubes into the copper matrix were tested: a Solid Route process where CNTs are simply mixed with the copper powder and a Liquid Route process where CNTs are dispersed in a copper salt solution and then mixed with the metallic copper powder. Powders are sintered by uni-axial hot pressing process under vacuum atmosphere at 650°C and ther...

95% of all stars end their lives as white dwarfs. About 20% of the hot post-AGB stars are hydrogen deficient. Most of these are the result of a late helium-shell flash, but the evolutionary status of a fraction of about 10–20% of the hottest hydrogen-deficient stars, namely four O(He) stars, is as yet unexplained. They could be the long-searched hot successors of RCrB stars, which have not been...

Abstract Flash floods are largely driven by high rainfall rates in convective storms that projected to increase frequency and intensity a warmer climate the future. However, quantifying changes future flood flashiness is challenging due lack of high-resolution simulations. Here we use outputs from continental convective-permitting numerical weather model at 4-km hourly resolution force hydrolog...