Acknowledgments: The authors would like to express their gratitude to Virginia Morman, Nurse Manager of Western Nephrology Acute Dialysis, for her support of the project and to the Acute Team staff who participated in the data collection for this project. Also, thanks are extended to to Karen Chaney and Doug Reid (formerly of Gambro Healthcare) for their interest and support. W hen setting the ...

objectives: periodontal pathogens need acidic environments to proliferate in periodontium, and their growth is affected by the salivary flow rate and ph of the mouth. alterations in flow and acidity of saliva have an important effect on oral diseases such as periodontitis. this study was designed to compare salivary ph and flow rate before and after using green tea, black tea and coffee in pati...

background: measuring peak expiratory flow rate has been suggested as an important tool in asthma management by all international guidelines.   objective: studies on various populations have shown considerable variations in normal values of peak expiratory flow rate. since reference standards for iranian children are not available, the present study was performed to establish these standards.  ...

objective: diabetes mellitus is one of the most common metabolic disorders which have several oral complications such as hypofunction of salivary glands. the aim of present study was to compare the unstimulated whole saliva (uws) flow rate in diabetic type ii patients and healthy peoples who admitted in yazd diabetic center. materials and methods: in this analytic-observational study, 78 patien...

Two-phase flow regimes are affected by conduit position, alignment, geometry, flow direction, physical characteristics, and flow rate of each phase as well as the heat flux toward the boundaries. Due to the importance of two-phase flow, numerous regimes have been identified. The first step in studying micro-bubble formation inside a venturi tube is to recognize the type of flow regimes. In this...