OBJECTIVE To explore the attitudes of parents to measuring their babies' rectal temperature. DESIGN Qualitative study using unstructured interviews of parents given "Baby Check," a scoring system designed to assess severity of illness in babies that includes measurement of rectal temperature. SETTING One inner city general practice in Newcastle upon Tyne. SUBJECTS 42 parents of 34 babies ...

Rectal temperature measurement (RTM) can promote stress and defensive behaviour in hospitalised cats. The aim of this study was to assess if axillary temperature measurement (ATM) could be a reliable and less stressful alternative for these animals. In this prospective study, paired rectal and axillary temperatures were measured in 42 cats, either by a veterinarian or a student. To assess the i...

Background: Neonatal deaths mostly occur within the first one week and first 24 hours of life from a variety of conditions. Objective: To examine the role of significant hypothermia and hypoglycaemia, in addition to some other factors, in neonatal mortality occurring within the first 24 hours of admission.Methods: A prospective study of newborn infants hospitalized within the first 24 hours of ...

We report the development of a low noise and broadband SIS mixer aimed for 1 THz channel of the Caltech Airborne Submillimeter Interstellar Medium Investigations Receiver (CASIMIR), designed for the Stratospheric Observatory for Far Infrared Astronomy, (SOFIA). In the SIS mixer are used the Nb/AlN/NbTiN junctions with the Josephson critical current density of about 40 KA/cm . The mixer is built...

We have fabricated and tested submillimeter-wave superconductor–insulator–superconductor ~SIS! mixers using very high-current-density Nb/AlN/Nb tunnel junctions (Jc'30 kA cm ). The junctions have low-resistance-area products (RNA'5.6 V mm ), good subgap-to-normal resistance ratios Rsg /RN'10, and good run-to-run reproducibility. From Fourier transform spectrometer measurements, we infer that vR...

In the present work we report on the AlN gap energy temperature dependence studied through the optical properties of high-quality large bulk AlN single crystals grown by a sublimation–recondensation technique. The cathodoluminescence, transmission/absorption as well as optical reflectance measurements at low temperature show a clear feature at about 6.03 eV, which could be attributed to the fre...

AIM To evaluate the reliability of the measurements obtained from different parts of the oral cavity using an infrared auditory thermometer, and to contrast these results with those obtained from the axilla and auditory canal. STUDY DESIGN A comparative descriptive design was used to establish differences between the temperature recordings made in 66 healthy volunteers with an infrared audito...