introduction: hot flash affects approximately 75% of women with breast cancer. those who experience hot flashes have higher rates of sleep disorders, temper and lower quality of life than women with no hot flashes. the   persent   study   was aimed to compare the effect of megestrol acetate with gabapentin on the severity of hot flashes in patients with breast cancer materials and methods: in a...

Understanding the link between temperature and educational outcomes is important in assessing the efficiency and equity implications of various schooling interventions and the potential welfare impacts of climate change. Using student-level administrative data for the largest public school district in the United States, I estimate the causal impact of hot temperature on high-stakes exam perform...

backgroundthe absence of pain relief in infants can lead to harmful effects; so, this study aimed to investigate the effect of local heat on the pain of vitamin k injection in the infants.materials and methodsthis randomized clinical trial was conducted on 80 healthy infants. for the control group, 1 mg vitamin k was injected into the vastus lateralis muscle by a nurse. in the 3 intervention gr...

conclusions the current report isolates, characterizes, and demonstrates the novel heat-adapted amylase-producing bacteria ss1, ss2 and ss3 from taptapani hot spring, indicating its potentiality and stability under acidic conditions. materials and methods bacterial strains were isolated by dilution plating method from the water samples collected from taptapani hot spring, odisha and screened fo...

Hot Electrons and Hot Plasmons for Photovoltaics David J. Norris Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zürich We will discuss two recently observed phenomena with implications for photovoltaic devices. First, it is well known that conventional silicon solar cells lose a significant fraction of their absorbed energy when electrons that are excited high into the conduction band cool to th...

introduction: today nano-medicine tries to produce new drugs to reduce the dosage and side effects of their conventional forms. according to the interaction between zinc and opioidergic system activity, this study has investigated the effect of new kind of zinc supplement, nano zinc oxide (nzno), in compared to its conventional form (czno), in presence and absence of opioidergic system activity...

background : postmenopausal hot flash is a common disease amongst women with high prevalence of 75%. hormone replacement therapy (hrt) is a well-known relief of symptoms which has disadvantages such as side effects and contraindication for certain types of hormone related diseases and breast or estrogen related cancers. one of the alternatives is acupuncture which is an east asian and more spec...

the hot charging of continuously cast slabs steel is usually considered an effective method to reduce theenergy consumption in the hot rolling mills. in this work the application and optimizing of hot charging ofcontinuously cast slab in mobareke steel company has been investigated. mathematical relationship betweenthe cooling time of the stack of slabs and its mass average temperature is descr...