When udders were washed before milking, a post milking teat-dipping with a 5,000 mg available iodine/l iodophor induced an iodine residue of 33 to 54 micrograms l/kg in milk. The iodine contents of the first jets of milk were 1.08 to 8.27 times higher than those of average milk. However, the bulk of iodine residues in milk seemed to be an iodine transfer across teat skin to milk. From these dat...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between nocturnal variations in blood pressure (BP) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in different gender.This cross-sectional study involved 509 hypertensive patients (254 males and 255 females, 45 to 75 years old) from September 2013 to March 2014. BP values were acquired from ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM). The dipper pattern of BP was ...

The thick films of Tungsten Oxide (WO3) were prepared by screen-printing technique. Gas-sensing performance of these films was tested for various gases. The pure films showed response to Hydrogen Sulphide, Ethanol, Oxygen, and Cigar smoke. The pure WO3 thick films were surface modified by dipping them into an aqueous solution of CrO3 for different intervals of time. Surface modification improve...

In the western Sydney Basin, the Lapstone Structural Complex is a major north-trending association of monoclines and faults that forms the frontal ridge of the Blue Mountains Plateau. At Kurrajong Heights, the Lapstone Structural Complex is dominated by an eastfacing monocline with a gently dipping central limb containing several different homoclinal segments. At the Hawkesbury Lookout section,...

The possible prognostic relevance of different patterns characterizing blood pressure (BP) fluctuations during the day and night was first suggested in the late 1980s,1 based on observations made possible by 24-hour continuous intraarterial ambulatory BP monitoring in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. Since then, this issue has been repeatedly addressed in studies carried out either in an...

Hot solder dipping is an accepted method to mitigate whisker growth on electronic components plated with pure tin. To provide the best protection from tin whiskers, the solder coating needs to be up to the package body. The conventional wisdom for solder dipping maintains that dipping up to the package body can cause component damage. If the specific construction differences of ceramic and plas...

This report examines the reliability of nighttime blood pressure dipping. Twenty-one individuals were studied twice with ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. On one occasion they were studied as outpatients, and on the other as inpatients on a clinical research ward. Blood pressure monitoring revealed the expected dip in blood pressure at nighttime. However, there was little test-retest reliab...

The austenitic stainless steel was coated by dipping into a molten Al-12.4%Si alloy at 765oC. The effect of immersion times in the range of 60 to 900 s was investigated with respect to the phase nature, thickness, and microhardness. An uniform layer (~12 m) of Al12(Fe,Cr)3Si2 intermetallic with hexagonal crystalline structure is formed, irrespectively the immersion time. Microhardness of the c...