To study the effects of microinjections of 5 hydroxytryptamine and adrenaline in central grey on pain responsiveness during acute food deprivation, experiments were conducted in nine male rats. Microinjections of 5 HT (10 micrograms/microliter) and adrenaline (10 micrograms/microliter) were given in central grey before and at the end of 6, 12, 18 and 24 hr food deprivation and the effects on pa...

We studied the effects of high temperature and drought on the survival, growth and water relations of seedlings of Pinus ponderosa (Dougl.) Lawson, one of few coniferous tree species that can successfully colonize drought-prone sites with high soil surface temperatures. Temperature profiles were measured with 0.07-mm thermocouples in a sparse ponderosa pine forest in northern Idaho. The soil su...

BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate the oral carbohydrate solution administered preoperatively on thermoregulation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 40 female patients under general anesthesia. Patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: Group CONT (stopped oral implementation 8 h before the operation) and Group CHO (800ml oral carbohydrate fluid 8 h before the operation and 400ml ora...

We study the elasticity of thermalized spring networks under an applied bulk strain. The networks considered are subisostatic random-bond networks that, in the athermal limit, are known to have vanishing bulk and linear shear moduli at zero bulk strain. Above a bulk strain threshold, however, these networks become rigid, although surprisingly the shear modulus remains zero until a second, highe...

The effect of sulfization temperature on Ga throughfilm uniformity in a 2-reaction H2Se/H2S precursor process for Cu(InGa)(SeS)2 was studied. Cu0.8Ga0.2/In bi-layer precursors were prepared by sputter deposition. The precursors were then partially selenized at 450 oC, followed by sulfization at temperatures ranging from 450 to 550 oC. The observed threshold temperature for Ga homogenization dur...

The electrical resistance of mats of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is measured as a function of mat temperature under various helium pressures, in vacuum and in atmospheric air. The objective of this paper is to study the thermal stability of SWNTs produced in a helium arc discharge in the experimental conditions close to natural conditions of SWNT growth in an arc, using a furnace inste...

The thermal properties of light vector and scalar mesons are investigated in the framework of QCD sum rules. The phenomenological side of the correlation function can be calculated using either the quark-hadron duality approach or in terms of two-pion continuum contributions. In the quark-hadron duality approach, a free parameter (hadronic threshold) arises in the phenomenological part and it i...

We consider the dynamic response functions of interacting one dimensional spin-1/2 fermions at arbitrary momenta. We build a nonperturbative zero-temperature theory of the threshold singularities using mobile impurity Hamiltonians. The interaction induced low-energy spin-charge separation and power-law threshold singularities survive away from Fermi points. We express the threshold exponents in...

Less evidence concerning the association between ambient temperature and mortality is available in developing countries/regions, especially inland areas of China, and few previous studies have compared the predictive ability of different temperature indictors (minimum, mean, and maximum temperature) on mortality. We assessed the effects of temperature on daily mortality from 2003 to 2010 in Jia...