OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore patients' experiences of RA daily life while on modern treatments. METHODS The methods of this study comprised semi-structured interviews with 15 RA patients, analysed using inductive thematic analysis. RESULTS Four themes suggest patients experience life with RA along a continuum from RA in the background to the foreground of their lives...

Abstract. Solar flare sympathy is the triggering of a flare in one active region by a flare in another. Statistical tests for flare sympathy have returned varying results. However, existing tests have relied on flaring rates in active regions being constant in time, or else have attempted to model the rate variation, which is a difficult task. A simple test is described which is independent of ...

A set of methods are presented for the global survey of natural gas flaring using data collected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NASA/NOAA Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The accuracy of the flared gas volume estimates is rated at ̆9.5%. VIIRS is particularly well suited for detecting and measuring the radia...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of two irrigants on decreasing the pain and swelling at different times after treatment of necrotic pulp. materials and methods: fifty patients with single canal tooth and necrotic pulp were selected and divided into two groups, twenty-five in each. rotary files were used for preparing the canals and 0.2% chlorhexidine gluconate an...

The recent detection of a three-hour X-ray flare from Sgr A* by Chandra provides very strong evidence for a compact emitting region near this supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. Sgr A*’s mm/sub-mm spectrum and polarimetric properties, and its quiescent-state X-ray flux density, are consistent with a model in which low angular momentum gas captured at large radii circularizes to form...

"SEQUAH ON CLAPHAM COMMON" is the legend attached to a small Victorian oil-painting in the Wellcome Institute library (plate 1).1 The setting, Clapham Common, is known to Londoners as a grassy open space a mile or two south of the river Thames, but the name "Sequah" today means, to most people, nothing. Yet for a brief period around 1890, Sequah was perhaps the most celebrated medical operator ...

background : a significant number of patients who receive palliative irradiation for painful bone metastases experience pain flare, defined as a distressing transient increase in pain not immediately controlled by additional analgesics. this pain is postulated to be due to edema at the onset of radiotherapy. this study aims to compare the incidence of bone pain flare among patients who receive ...

BACKGROUND Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is characterised by fluctuating periods of minimal disease activity and 'flare'. Flare is an important outcome variable impacting the disease burden associated with SLE. The objective of this study was to obtain population-based utility values for varying severities of flare to measure the impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Australi...

Abstract—Gas flaring is one of the most GHG emitting sources in the oil and gas industries. It is also a major way for wasting such an energy that could be better utilized and even generates revenue. Minimize flaring is an effective approach for reducing GHG emissions and also conserving energy in flaring systems. Integrating waste and flared gases into the fuel gas networks (FGN) of refineries...

PURPOSE Existing flare photometers are based on the Tyndall effect, which requires sophisticated laser photometry. The ocular flare analysis meter (OFAM) is a nonlaser photometer that uses quantitative Rayleigh scatter and absorption from visible light to compute a flare value. This study is designed to correlate OFAM measurements with qualitative measurements of flare in vitro and in vivo. M...