STUDY OBJECTIVE Local nasal hyperthermia or inhalation of heated water vapor is often recommended as a home remedy for various rhinitis disorders such as the common cold and allergic rhinitis. Inhaled heated vapor treatments and simple saline solution nasal irrigation were investigated for their effect on inflammatory mediator production in nasal secretions. DESIGN Three treatments were given...

Dividing wall column (DWC) is an advanced technology which could decrease energy consumption. As the vertical inserted in DWC increases degree of freedom systems, control becomes more difficult than conventional columns. In this study, mixture glycols (1, 2-propanediol+ 1, 3-butanediol+ 4-butanediol) were taken as feed, optimized structure was proposed, and three structures for tested by ± 10% ...

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry revealed the presence of both carbon disulfide (CS2) and carbonyl sulfide (COS) on rat breath. Behavioral experiments indicated that rats exposed to an unfamiliar diet moistened with CS2, like rats exposed to an unfamiliar diet placed on the fur of an anesthetized rat, subsequently exhibited enhanced preference for the unfamiliar diet. Rats in experimental g...

The integrator delay zero (IDZ) model presented by Litrico and Fromion is a simple way to model a canal for control purposes that extends the classical integrator delay model. This analytical model gives a very good frequency domain approximation of the Saint-Venant transfer matrix for a pool possibly in backwater conditions. The present paper shows how this model can be used to model an irriga...

To determine relatively useful diagnostic procedures of carbon disulfide (CS2) poisoning in terms of validity and cost-effectiveness, several diagnostic tests are evaluated on 1,552 people by prevalence ratio (exposed/nonexposed), dose-response relationship, sensitivity and specificity, and the cost of the tests. Several symptoms with high kappa indices are found to be useful in various combina...

A starch-degrading enzyme produced by the yeast Cryptococcus sp. S-2 was purified in only one step by using an alpha-cyclodextrin-Sepharose 6B column, and was characterized as an alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1). The molecular mass and isoelectric point of purified alpha-amylase (AMY-CS2) were estimated to be 66 kDa and 4.2 respectively. AMY-CS2 has raw-starch-digesting and raw-starch-absorbing activ...

We use nonlinear beam deflection to separate the bound-electronic and nuclearrotational responses in gas-phase CS2. This allows a direct comparison of the second hyperpolarizability to our liquid CS2 measurements considering local-field effects. OCIS codes: (190.0190) Nonlinear optics, (190.3270) Kerr effect, (190.5650) Raman effect, (350.3250) Isotope separation

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Peditrol is a novel hands-free irrigation device that delivers a bolus of irrigant through the ureteroscope when the foot pedal is deployed. The purpose of this study was to compare the flow and pressures created by the Peditrol with those of commonly used methods of irrigation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Flows through a flexible 6.9F Olympus ureteroscope (F-URS) and a 7...

Citation: Wayah SB and Philip K (2018) Pentocin MQ1: A Novel, Broad-Spectrum, Pore-Forming Bacteriocin From Lactobacillus pentosus CS2 With Quorum Sensing Regulatory Mechanism and Biopreservative Potential. Front. Microbiol. 9:564. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00564 Pentocin MQ1: A Novel, Broad-Spectrum, Pore-Forming Bacteriocin From Lactobacillus pentosus CS2 With Quorum Sensing Regulatory Mechanis...