Continuous flash suppression leverages binocular rivalry to render observers unaware of a static image for several seconds. To achieve this effect, rapidly flashing noise masks are presented the dominant eye while stimulus is non-dominant eye. Eventually “breakthrough” occurs, wherein awareness shifts shown We tested hypothesis that Gestalt formation can promote breakthrough. In two experiments...

BACKGROUND The management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients is always a challenge for medical professions. Occurring in 80% of cancer patients with advanced disease, breakthrough pain significantly decreases both patient's and caregiver's quality of life. The aim of this study is to assess the analgesic efficacy of a fixed inhaled nitrous oxide/oxygen mixture for adult cancer patients wit...

A continuous soil column experiment was conducted to investigate reductive dechlorination of trichloroethylene (TCE) in soil system reductively manipulated by three types of reductants (Fe(II), dithionite, and Fe(II) + dithionite (combined treatment of Fe(II) and dithionite)). The soil column reduced by Fe(II) + dithionite has the greatest bed volumes (51.8) treated to breakthrough indicating t...

At present time, most of the breakthrough technologies are based on the existence of a quantum state called entanglement. Even though this state is a direct prediction from quantum theory, but it turns out that, at the time this state was proposed, it’s very difficult to prove its existence in experiment. Nevertheless nowadays we figure out an efficient way to show this in experiment, which is ...

"Breakthrough pain" is a common clinical term that has not been conclusively defined or described. Breakthrough pain is a transitory flare of pain experienced when baseline pain has been reduced to a mild or moderate level. Breakthrough pain may be characterized by its relationship to a fixed around-the-clock (ATC) opioid dose, rapid onset and short duration, precipitating events, predictabilit...

The dynamic adsorption of Pb(II) ions from aqueous solutions using a granulated activated carbon and an activated carbon cloth has been studied using fixed bed adsorption column. The breakthrough curves at different hydraulic loading rates (HLR), bed depth and feed concentration (Co) have been examined. The breakthrough time at any given concentration of the effluent decreases with increasing h...

experiments, for aqueous Cr(VI) solutions having low buffering capacities, over the Cr(VI) concentration range of 5 – 40 mg/L. The results showed that the initial Cr(VI) concentration significantly affects the reduction capacity of scrap iron. Maximum reduction capacity of scrap iron was observed at the beginning of the column experiments; the lower the Cr(VI) concentration, the greater the exp...