hypothermia generates potentially severe complications in operating or recovery room. forced air warmer is effective to maintain body temperature. extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (elf-emf) is harmful to human body and mainly produced by electronic equipment including convective air warming system. we investigated elf-emf from convective air warming device on various temperature se...

Plus II Infusion Pump is unique in several important respects. First, according to Abbott, by 2000, this device was the market leader, was used around the world, and accounted for about 75% of all PCA use in the U.S., being used in nearly 4,000 hospitals there.3,4 Furthermore, in 2001, ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute, www.ecri.org) stated "this pump has a significant safety...

In this paper the temperature time series of three Slovak mountain stations and one Slovak lowland station are analyzed from the point of view of their warmer periods. These warmer periods are analysed by an analogue method. Selected periods (warmer summer and warmer winter seasons) are characterized by air temperature as well as by precipitation, humidity and some other variables. In the secon...

Arctic climate change inwinter is tightly linked to changes in the strength of surface temperature inversions, which occur frequently in the present climate as Arctic air masses form during polar night. Recent work proposed that, in a warmer climate, increasing low-cloud optical thickness of maritime air advected over highlatitude landmasses during polar night could suppress the formation of Ar...

BACKGROUND: The authors compared two strategies for the maintenance of intraoperative normothermia during orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT): the routine forced-air warming system and the newly developed, whole body water garment. METHODS: In this prospective, randomized and open-labelled study, 24 adult patients were enrolled in one of two intraoperative temperature management groups durin...

The internal temperature of flowers may be higher than air temperature, and warmer nectar could offer energetic advantages for honeybee thermoregulation, as well as being easier to drink owing to its lower viscosity. We investigated the responses of Apis mellifera scutellata (10 colonies) to warmed 10% w/w sucrose solutions, maintained at 20-35°C, independent of low air temperatures, and to 20%...

Characterization of stream flow is essential to water resource management, water supply planning, environmental protection, and ecological restoration; while air temperature variation due to climate change can exacerbate stream flow and add instability to the flow. In this study, the wavelet analysis technique was employed to identify temporal trend of air temperature and its impact upon forest...

This paper compares the porosity / compactness of the knitted structures made from viscose and excel yarns and evaluates the air permeability property for sportswear. In the experimental section, viscose and excel yarns spun in different counts ( Ne 30, Ne 40 ) with the same twist coefficient of αe = 3.3 were knitted as single jersey fabrics in the same production conditions with four tightness...

F my house in Fairbanks, Alaska, I see Mt. McKinley 250 km to the southwest. One hundred fifty kilometers to the south is Mt. Hayes, and 200 km to the southeast is Mt. Hadjukovich. But in the winter it is often hard to know what these Alaska Range mountains really look like. They appear as mirages, distorted into towering images, squashed images, inverted images, or floating images (see Figs. 1...