Aged humans often exhibit an impaired defense of core temperature during cold stress. However, research documenting this response has typically used small subject samples and strong cold stimuli. The purpose of this study was to determine the responses of young and older subjects, matched for anthropometric characteristics, during mild cold stress. Thirty-six young (YS; 23 +/- 1 years, range 18...

BACKGROUND Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is a brief, manualised treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It has been shown to have therapeutic benefits for a wide range of individuals and settings. This study, following our previous work applying the original NET in earthquake survivors, aimed to revise NET to be adaptable for treating PTSD after a natural disaster. METHODS A ra...

In their review article, Mundt et al. (2014), ‘Evaluating interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder in lowandmiddle income countries:Narra tive ExposureTherapy’ , (Intervention, this issue) evaluated Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) asan example ofa short term treatment for posttrau matic stress disorder that is applied in low and middle income, post con£ict settings.They concluded that i...

Cyclic mononucleotides are messengers in plant stress responses. Here we show that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) induces rapid net K(+)-efflux and Ca(2+)-influx in Arabidopsis roots. Pre-treatment with either 10μM cAMP or cGMP for 1 or 24h does significantly reduce net K(+)-leakage and Ca(2+)-influx, and in the case of the K(+)-fluxes, the cell permeant cyclic mononucleotides are more effective. We ...

Net Photosynthetic rate(Pn), relative electrical conductivity and MDA content of 11 fennel varieties were tested using LI6400 portable photosynthesis system. The results showed that Pn of XJ0710 has distinct difference with other varieties in which there is no obvious difference. But the relative electrical conductivity and MDA of the varieties have obvious difference. Under environmental stres...

The aim of this paper is a stress testing of the developed UAS for home care agencies. The developed testing application is possible to use on any others UAS with web service interface. The whole system, including applications developed for the stress testing is based on Microsoft technology .NET. By the help of our test application, the hardware solution for the server was selected on the base...

In the present study, fracture toughness of functionally graded steels in crack divider configuration has been modeled. By utilizing plain carbon and austenitic stainless steels slices with various thicknesses and arrangements as electroslag remelting electrodes, functionally graded steels were produced. The fracture toughness of the functionally graded steels in crack divider configuration has...

We study the behavior of bundles of superconducting vortices when increasing the magnetic field using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at 100 mK. Pinning centers are given by features on the surface corrugation. We find strong net vortex motion in a bundle towards a well-defined direction. We observe continuous changes of the vortex arrangements, and identify small displacements, ...

Stress conditions (thermal and oxidative) were applied to Yarrowia lipolytica culture. A rearrangement in cell metabolism as well as dimorphism was observed under these conditions. An image analysis procedure was employed for morphology characterization, and a net increase of around 25% on hyphae formation was detected. A significant increment in total hyphal length was detected, compared with ...

We demonstrate stereolithographic 3D printing of pure aliphatic poly(ether esters) from spiro-orthoesters with near-net-zero shrinkage and significantly reduced stress.