Introduction: Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is a set of undesirable physical and psychological conditions whose symptoms appear when entering the building and disappear after leaving it. The most well-known symptoms of SBS include problems of nervous and respiratory systems and skin. Since nurses spend many hours in the hospital and enclosed spaces, they are exposed to many factors related to th...

Adjacent parallel hot-wire anemometers at different temperatures have sometimes been used to measure fluctuating temperatures in turbulent flows. This work presents an extensive experimental comparison of temperatures measured with a parallel-wire probe to temperatures simultaneously measured with a standard cold-wire probe. The results show the parallel-wire probe to work well in low intensity...

introduction: we investigated the effect of intratympanic dexamethasone on control of tinnitus and hearing loss in patients with meniere’s disease.  materials and methods: 100 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of meniere’s disease according to the 1995 criteria of the american academy of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery (aao–hns) who remained symptomatic despite medical therapy were a...

Nanotwinned metals have opened up exciting avenues for the design of high-strength, high-ductility materials owing to the extraordinary properties of twin boundaries. The recent advances in the fabrication of nanostructured materials with twin lamella on the order of a mere few atomic layers call for a closer examination of the stability of these structural motifs, especially at high temperatur...

If phase coherence determines the superconducting transition temperature T c in the cuprate oxides, it is of great interest to understand the role that dynamics of the phase fluctuation plays in bringing about depletion of the superconducting condensate. We will show that a phase correlation function can be calculated that allows us to describe depletion of superconducting condensate as a resul...

Temperature is an important environmental variable that can strongly affect the performance of anaerobic reactors working at ambient temperatures. This study presents a mechanistic mathematical model which depends in an explicit way on the operating temperature. The cardinal temperature model function is proposed to describe the temperature dependence of the kinetic parameters and the experimen...