This report contains the highlights of the presentations and discussions at the NIST/Industry/Academe Workshop: Hygrothermal Effects on the Performance of Polymers and Polymeric Composites that took place on 21-22, September 1995 at the Hilton Hotel, Gaithersburg, Maryland. The workshop was organized by the Polymers Division of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at the Nati...

Review of the state-of-the-art on fungal damage of wood materials showed that a combination of period of cumulative time when moisture and thermal regimes are above specified minimum is needed for fungal activities to cause biological decay in wood. The long-term performance of a typical wall assembly was evaluated using an existing computer model of heat, moisture, and air transfer in conjunct...

High temperature vulcanised silicone rubber (SR) has excellent hydrophobicity and thus is widely applied both in indoor outdoor insulation. According to the analysis of different experimental ageing tests field investigation SR, humidity are considered be fundamental factors during degradation. Hygrothermal was proposed this study simulate chalking state finally leading irreversible degradation...

introduction: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) has been reported to be a successful curative treatment in aml patients. myeloablative conditioning (mac) is used more frequent as a preparing regimen. this study attempts to compare the outcome of patients who has received mac and reduced- intensity conditioning (ric). methods: totally, 618 patients with aml underwent hsct...

This paper addresses a number of problems relating to climatic change and human health. Following an introduction outlining the overarching issues, a short summary is given on climatic change and its anthropogenic causes. The rest of the paper then focuses on the direct and indirect impacts of global climatic change on health. Direct effects comprise changes in the hygrothermal stress response ...

For many years, the housing environment has been acknowledged as one of the main settings that affect human health. Living and housing conditions are the basis of many factors influencing residential health. Still, to date there is no commonly agreed upon definition of ‘healthy housing’, and there are still major gaps in the knowledge on how housing conditions may affect health. Epidemiological...

the aim of this research is to study the relations between personality types (introverted and extroverted), intelligence, sexuality and semantic conditioning. for this purpose, 94 subjects were selected through systematic random sampling from among the students of the first and second semesters of psychology at islamic azad university of roudhen. eysenck personality test and raven iq test were ...

Effects of intra-central amygdala administration of L-arginine, a nitric oxide precursor, and NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl-ester (L NAME), a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, on the morphine-induced sensitization and also on the expression of morphine-induced place conditioning in rats were studied. Subcutaneous (s.c.) administration of morphine (2.5, 5 and 7.5 mg/kg) induced place conditioning. R...

The interface between fibre and matrix of fibrous polymeric composites is most critical and decisive in maintaining sustainability, durability and also reliability of this potential material, but unfortunately a comprehensive conclusion is yet to meet the label of confidence for the engineering viability. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are being accepted and also utilized as better a...