Heat illness in the Armed Forces is an emotive issue. No specific service-wide system currently exists to monitor the incidence of heat illness. Within British Forces Cyprus medical policy guidelines for physical activity at various Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) readings were issued in 1988. A local system for reporting heat casualties was introduced in August 1989. This paper examined retr...

Label-free detection of the interaction between hexahistidine-tagged human κ-opioid receptor membrane protein and anti-His antibody is demonstrated in liquid by an optical microelectromechanical system utilizing electromagnetically actuated microresonators. Shift in resonance frequency due to accretion of mass on the sensitive surface of microresonators is monitored via an integrated optical re...

We evaluate the ability of hexahistidine (His6) tags on peptide and protein substrates to recruit deoxyribozymes for modifying those substrates. For two different deoxyribozymes, one that creates tyrosine-RNA nucleopeptides and another that phosphorylates tyrosine side chains, we find substantial improvements in yield, kobs, and Km for peptide substrates due to recruiting by His6/Cu(2+). Howeve...

Recognizing TimeML events and identifying their attributes, are important tasks in natural language processing (NLP). Several NLP applications like question answering, information retrieval, summarization, and temporal information extraction need to have some knowledge about events of the input documents. Existing methods developed for this task are restricted to limited number of languages, an...

In this study, Four Wave Mixing (FWM) characteristics in photonic crystal fibers are investigated. The effect of channel spacing, phase mismatching, and fiber length on FWM efficiency have been studied. The variation of idler frequency which obtained by this technique with pumping and signal wavelengths has been discussed. The effect of fiber dispersion has been taken into account; we obtain th...

يمومع باي تيعقوم متسيس كي تقد 3 رد متسيس وردوخ يربوان ياه يم ريثأت يفلتخم لماوع زا زا تـسا مزلا لـيلد نيمه هب و دريذپ شور دومن هدافتسا وردوخ هدش نييعت تيعقوم رد تقد شيازفا تهج هشقن قيبطت ياه . متسيس رد هشقن قيبطت وردوـخ يربواـن ياـه دراد هدهع رب ار رهش هشقن يوررب وردوخ يلعف تيعقوم نييعت هفيظو . رد هـشقن قيبطت هلأسم لح يارب يبيكرت متيروگلا كي هلاقم نيا متسيس رد يم داهنشيپ وردوخ يربوان يا...

Background Thermal component of the atmospheric environment is an important issue which is related to human's health. Thermal environment includes both heat exchange conditions (stress) and the physiological response (strain). The aim of this study was to measure the association of heat indices (PSI, HSI, Humidex) especially subjective one (STI) with some physiological parameters (Blood pressur...

ةصلاخلا بكرملل ةدیدج تاقتشم ریضحت ىلا ثحبلا يمری 4,3,1 ةیتلاا تلاعافتلا ءارجا للاخ نم لوزایادایاث : ًلاوأ : ب كرملل فیش ةدعاق ریضحت ) 2 و نیما 5 و تبكرم 4,3,1 لوزا یادایاث ( يلیفو یلكوینلا ضیو عتلا ءارجاو ةدعاقلل يرتسلاا ب كرملا نیو كت ى لا يدؤ یل مویدو صلا دیسكوثیا دو جوب ل ثیلاا تاتیسا ومورب عم ) 3 ( ، يذ لا یازاردیھلا عم ھتلعافم تمت ن 99 % د یازاردیھلا قتشم ریضحتل ) 4 ( فیش دعاوق نم د یدع...

BACKGROUND Presumed effects of global warming on occupational heat stress aggravate conditions in many parts of the world, in particular in developing countries. In order to assess and evaluate conditions, heat stress must be described and measured correctly. OBJECTIVE Assessment of heat stress using internationally recognized methods. DESIGN Two such methods are wet bulb globe temperature ...

The purpose of this article is to examine the applicability of Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) index as an innovative index for evaluating of occupational heat stress in outdoor environments. 175 workers of 12 open-pit mines in Tehran, Iran were selected for this research study. First, the environmental variables such as air temperature, wet-bulb temperature, globe temperature, relative ...