OBJECTIVES To study physiological, therapeutic and adverse effects of sauna bathing with special reference to chronic diseases, medication and special situations (pregnancy, children). STUDY DESIGN A literature review. METHODS Experiments of sauna bathing were accepted if they were conducted in a heated room with sufficient heat (80 to 90 degrees C), comfortable air humidity and adequate ve...

Metallization of ABS (acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) parts has been studied on flat part surfaces. These parts are fabricated on an FDM (fused deposition modeling machine) using the layer-wise deposition principle using ABS as a part material. Electroless copper deposition on ABS parts was performed using two different surface preparation processes, namely ABS parts prepared using chromic aci...

OBJECTIVE The study was aimed at determining whether Legionella pneumophila bacteria can be found in thermal saline waters used in balneotherapy. METHODS Water samples were collected from three thermal saline baths, supplied by thermal saline waters (type Cl - Na). The total number of bacteria was determined in the direct microscopic count under a fluorescence microscope The numbers of bacter...

OBJECTIVE Determine the impact of three stepwise interventions on the rate of central catheter-associated bloodstream infections. DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. SETTING Three surgical intensive care units (general surgery, trauma, and neurosurgery) at a 1500-bed county teaching hospital in the Miami metro area. PATIENTS All consecutive central catheter-associated bloodstream infection c...

BACKGROUND Hypothermia may be accidental or therapeutic. Therapeutic hypothermia is increasingly used as treatment for various conditions, e.g., neuroprotection after cardiac arrest. Hypothermia leads to an impairment of the coagulation system, but the degree of impairment has been difficult to determine. Most studies have been performed on plasma instead of whole blood. We therefore evaluated ...

This study compared the microleakage of class V restorations bonded with various one-step self-etching adhesives. Seventy class V resin-based composite restorations were prepared on the buccal and lingual surfaces of 35 premolars, by using: Clearfil S3 Bond, G-Bond, iBond, One Coat 7.0, OptiBond All-In-One, or Xeno IV. The Adper Single Bond etch-and-rinse two-step adhesive was employed as a con...

We study nonequilibrium transport in various open quantum systems whose and leads/baths are made of topological superconductors (TSs), semiconductors, metals. Using Langevin equations Green’s function method, we derive exact expressions for steady-state electrical, thermal, spin current at the junctions between a system leads. validate these by comparing them with results from direct time-evolu...

Immersion in hot baths is an infrequently recognized cause of reflex epilepsy. Two such cases are described. Increased awareness of unusual forms of reflex epilepsy is necessary as this may have important prognostic and therapeutic implications.

We investigate statistics of the photon (phonon) field undergoing linear and nonlinear damping processes. An effective two-photon "cooling by heating" process is realized from spectral filtering heat baths present in system. This cooling driven incoherent quantum thermal noise can create states field. In fact, for high temperatures spectrally filtered baths, sub-Poissonian with strong antibunch...

Optical pump-probe signals can be viewed as work done by the matter while transferring energy between two coherent baths (from pump to probe). In thermodynamics a heat engine, such laser, is device which performs similar but operating thermal baths. We propose an "incoherent" control procedure for optical using physics of quantum engine. By combining laser excitation electronic excited state mo...