INTRODUCTION Since hormone replacement therapy given for long periods is now recognised to produce serious side effects, patients with troublesome vasomotor symptoms are increasingly using non-hormonal treatment including acupuncture. Several randomised controlled trials have shown that acupuncture reduces menopausal symptoms in patients experiencing the normal climacteric. It may have this eff...

in this paper direct proofs of some common fixed point results for two and three mappings under weak contractive conditions are given. some of these results are improved by using different arguments of control functions. examples are presented showing that some generalizations cannot be obtained and also that our results are distinct from the existing ones.

‎in this paper‎, ‎by using four functionals fixed point theorem‎, ‎we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of‎ ‎at least one positive solution of an $n$th-order $m$-point boundary value problem‎. ‎as an application‎, ‎we give an example to demonstrate our main result.

INTRODUCTION One of the basic beliefs of traditional acupuncture is that needling and massaging on certain skin areas called acupuncture points (AP) help to treat medical conditions. While acupuncture is widely accepted as a useful non-pharmacological method for pain reduction, the mechanism of acupuncture is still debated— whether it works through the mechanical stimulation of skin and muscle ...

New amide-chloride phases were successfully synthesized by mechanical milling of the LiNH2-AlCl3 mixture at a molar ratio of 1 : 0.11 and further heating at 150 °C under argon (0.1 MPa) or under hydrogen pressure (0.7 MPa). Powder X-ray diffraction measurements as a function of milling time increase revealed that the milling of the LiNH2-0.11AlCl3 mixture results in the formation of a FCC solid...

Acupuncture is helpful in treating various diseases, including autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction caused by mental stress. On the other hand, the frontal lobe is suggested to play an important role in stress responses by modulating the ANS. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of acupuncture on ANS and frontal lobe activities. We investigated 18 normal adults. We measured th...