OBJECTIVE To explore development of a screening test for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients most likely to develop radiographic damage in the next year. The test is a simple, objective measurement of elevated dermal temperature over an inflamed joint in this observational, prospective cohort study. METHODS Seropositive RA patients were sequentially enrolled into cohorts with hot or cool joint...

We propose using a phonon pumping mechanism to transfer heat from a cold to a hot body using a propagating modulation of the medium connecting the two bodies. This phonon pump can cool nanomechanical systems without the need for active feedback. We compute the lowest temperature that this refrigerator can achieve.

Thermal diffusion of cations has been studied in face-centered cubic Li2S04 containing small amounts of other sulfates (temp, range 590 — 750 °C), in body-centered cubic LiAgS04 containing about 0.5% of other alkali sulfates (450—550 °C) and in body-centered cubic LiNaS04 (546 to 588 °C). For the fee systems the size of the added cation was of great importance for the thermal diffusion. Thus, f...

In recent years, the research on the relationship between selenium and exercise capacity has become a hot research topic. Selenium is a necessary trace element in human body. This paper aims to elaborate the chemical composition of selenium and biological effects, discuss the relationship between selenium supplement and exercise capacity, and then investigate the potential applications of selen...

Applied discourse analysis is a hot topic in Information Retrieval (IR) and the related field of Information Extraction (IE). Although interesting observations about discourse can be made "by hand," applications require large quantities of data about language data which is rather uninteresting. This paper investigates using statistical analysis over a body of text to suggest new rules for recog...

The oscillations of a spherical body consisting of hot electron-nuclear plasma are considered. It is shown that there are two basic modes of oscillations. The estimation of the main frequencies of the solar core oscillation gives a satisfactory fit of the calculated spectrum and the measurement data.

with respect to the high incidence of hot flash in postmenopausal women and the controversies regarding its treatment, this double-blind clinical trial was conducted to determine the effects of pimpinella anisum on hot flashes in these women referring to rural and urban health centers of qazvin province in 2009. seventy-two women with hot flashes were randomly selected according to the predeter...

Wong’s article seeks to model the energy balance of humans inclusive of both sensible and oxidative energy content of food with the objective of finding means to modify the human energy balance and reduce obesity [1]. The author proposes that the temperature at which foods and beverages are consumed can make a significant contribution to whole body energy balance, and the temperature of foodstu...