We carried out time-series analyses in 12 U.S. cities to estimate both the acute effects and the lagged influence of weather on respiratory and cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths. We fit generalized additive Poisson regressions for each city using nonparametric smooth functions to control for long time trend, season, and barometric pressure. We also controlled for day of the week. We estimated...

Tongue diagnosis is a unique method in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This is the first investigation on the association between traditional tongue diagnosis and the tongue coating microbiome using next-generation sequencing. The study included 19 gastritis patients with a typical white-greasy or yellow-dense tongue coating corresponding to TCM Cold or Hot Syndrome respectively, as well as...

A meta-analysis to mathematically summarize the eVect of hot and cold temperature exposure on performance was completed. The results from 515 eVect sizes calculated from 22 original studies suggest that hot and cold temperatures negatively impact performance on a wide range of cognitive-related tasks. More speci®cally, hot temperatures of 908F (32.228C) Web Bulb Globe Temperature Index or above...

Introduction: Traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) is accompanied by little side effects in experience. The mechanisms involved in TIM are not much clear. The purpose of this study is assessment of differences of warm and cold nature persons in neuroendocrine system and cytokine pattern (Th1/Th2) of immune responses. Methods: Thirty seven 20 to 40 years old male volunteers were divided into 2 ...

The Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) is widely used to estimate actual evapotranspiration (ETa). One major limitation of the SEBAL model is the subjectiveness in selecting extreme cold/hot pixels. In the present study, the SEBAL model is modified by determining the extreme cold/hot status, based on the theoretical trapezoidal relationship between land surface temperature (Ts) a...

We study the accretion flow of a hot gas captured by the black hole gravity in the presence of a thin cold accretion disk. Such geometrical arrangement is expected in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and in galactic X-ray binary systems because both hot and cold gases are present in the black hole vicinity. Previous astrophysical literature concentrated on the evaporation of the cold disk in the cl...

BACKGROUND Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) describes airway narrowing that occurs in association with exercise. Exercise in hot and cold environments has been reported to increase exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) in subjects with asthma. However, to our knowledge, the effect of hot and cold environment on pulmonary function and EIB in trained males has not been previously s...

A meta-analysis to mathematically summarize the eVect of hot and cold temperature exposure on performance was completed. The results from 515 eVect sizes calculated from 22 original studies suggest that hot and cold temperatures negatively impact performance on a wide range of cognitive-related tasks. More speci®cally, hot temperatures of 908F (32.228C) Web Bulb Globe Temperature Index or above...

The growth behavior of intermetallic compounds (IMCs) at the liquid-solid interfaces in Cu/Sn/Cu interconnects during reflow at 250 °C and 280 °C on a hot plate was investigated. Being different from the symmetrical growth during isothermal aging, the interfacial IMCs showed clearly asymmetrical growth during reflow, i.e., the growth of Cu6Sn5 IMC at the cold end was significantly enhanced whil...