background: chewing sugar-free gums is a convenient way to increase salivary flow. salivary flow increases in response to both gustatory (taste) and mechanical (chewing) stimuli, and chewing gum can provide both of these stimuli. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of five different flavors of sugar-free chewing gum on the salivary flow rate (sfr) and ph. materials and methods: fift...

gooseberry seed (phyllanthus acidus) was used as an adsorbent to determine its feasibility for the removal of cr(vi). various parameters such as ph, temperature, contact time, initial metal concentration and adsorbent dosage were investigated to determine the biosorption performance. equilibrium was attained within 60 minutes and maximum removal of 96% was achieved under the optimum conditions ...

Carbohydrate and menthol mouth-swilling have been used to enhance exercise performance in the heat. However, these strategies differ mechanism subjective experience. Participants (n = 12) sat for 60 min hot conditions (35 °C; 15 ± 2%) following a control period, during which participants undertook three testing blocks. A randomised swill (carbohydrate; menthol; water) was administered per block...

The degree of glycaemic control in insulin-dependent diabetic patients is highly influenced by the rate of insulin absorption from subcutaneous tissue to blood. We have recently shown a correlation between subcutaneous blood flow and insulin absorption.' Smoking increases the concentration of catecholamines in the blood.2 In normal subjects inhaling cigarettes produces a transient rise in blood...

The relative bioavailability of the test (generic) product 2 × 25 mg baclofen tablets, with respect to the reference product, Lioresal® 2 × 25 mg tablets (baclofen; Squibb) was determined in a single-blind, single dose, randomised, crossover study. The mean values for the variable Cmax were 737.6 ng/ml for the reference and 739.5 ng/ml for the test product. The mean values for the variable AUC ...

in natural gas treatment, the removal of co2 and h2s in acid gases is a critical concern. there are various purification technologies that can be used for the removal of acid gas impurities. absorption of acid gas into amines is one preferred method in gas industries. in the past, single amines was used, but recently in order to improve absorption performance, mixed amines with different solubi...

BACKGROUND The effects of physical therapy on heart rate variability (HRV), especially in children, are still inconclusive. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of conventional physical therapy (CPT) for airway clearance and nasotracheal suction on the HRV of pediatric patients with acute bronchiolitis. METHOD 24 children were divided into two groups: control group (CG, n=12) without respi...

Circuit camouflaging is a recently proposed defense mechanism to protect digital integrated circuits (ICs) from reverse engineering attacks by using camouflaged gates, i.e., logic gates whose functionality cannot be precisely determined by the attacker. Recent work appears to establish that an attacker requires time that is exponential in the number of camouflaged gates to reverse engineer a ci...