BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of traditional wooden toothbrush usage on most severe constipation, which usually occurs in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. METHODS In a quasi-experimental study, 61 SCI patients were selected who had injuries in different spinal levels (cervical, thoracic, and lumbar), and severe constipation from one defection in ...

The egg development and early life history of Korean spotted sleeper, Odontobutis interrupta which is Korean endemic species from Sora-choen was investigated. The Korean spotted sleeper were caught at Sora-myeon, Yeosu-si, Jeollanamdo, from Korea at May in 2014. The fertilized eggs were 4.23 ± 0.05 mm in long diameter and had oil globules. Hatching time of the embryo began about 442 hr 14 min a...

This paper illustrates the phenomenon of the critical speed in the range 100300 km/h. A real explanation and a precise calculation of the critical speed seems to rest an unresolved problem in many cases. Some authors, analogous to “Mach effect”, have attributed this phenomenon to the reaching the Rayleigh wave speed of substructure by trains. But this explanation can’t be thorough in many cases...

Waking up can be very troubling. In many cases, being awoken by the alarm clock during a period of deep sleep causes a person to not feel fully rested after waking up. This paper describes how an adaptive alarm clock was developed addressing this problem. The alarm clock predetermines in what state the sleeper will be at the instant of supposed alarm-firing, and adjusts that instant to a more f...

After a short review of the theoretical tools available to describe heavy flavour physics I sketch the present profile of the weak dynamics of charm hadrons with respect to lifetimes, oscillations and CP violation. I argue that comprehensive studies of charm decays provide novel portals to New Physics and suggest some benchmark figures for desirable sensitivities.

Drywood termites are able to assess wood size using vibratory signals, although the exact mechanism behind this assessment ability is not known. Important vibratory characteristics such as the modal frequencies of a wooden block depend on its geometry and boundary conditions; however, they are also dependent on the material characteristics of the block, such as mass, density and internal dampin...

In the modern world, when problems of environment are most acutely associated with climate change, amphibians considered to be vulnerable group anamniotes as an indicator state wetlands. Along a decrease numbers among in Europe, nowadays newts especially suffer from impact invasive species, particular predators such Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii. This predatory fish species has recently sp...

The load generated during train operation is transmitted to sleepers through rails, and then from trackbeds. As one of the important components track structure, are very service-life safety railways. running speed will produce different frequencies on rails. To explore response under cyclical loads, this research used discrete element method simulate rails sleepers, realizes loading by applying...