BACKGROUND To evaluate the pathological characteristics of invasive margins in early-stage cervical squamous cell carcinomas and their association with other clinicopathological features including clinical outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with FIGO stage IB-IIA cervical squamous cell carcinomas who received surgical treatment and had available follow-up information were identified. Th...

Dr. Primosch is professor and Dr.Guelmann is associate professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. Correspond with Dr. Primosch at [email protected] Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective record review of 2and 3-year-old dental patients receiving intranasal midazolam (INM) was to compare drops vs spray administration to behavioral o...

Fuel droplets in combustors interact strongly with flames and turbulence in practical liquid-fueled combustors of terrestrial and aerial propulsion systems (Williams 1965; Sirignano 1999). Although a great deal of physical understanding has been achieved in purely gaseous combustion over the last century, not much is currently known about spray combustion at the fundamental level. In this short...

pCooling of an age-hardenable aluminum alloy after the high temperature forming process influences the metallurgical structure and, hence, the mechamcal properties of the part. An intelligent spray quenching system is proposed which selects the optimal spray nozrle configuration based on part geometry and composition such that the quenched part attains superior mechanical properties. The presen...

A powder vaccine intended for aerosol delivery was formulated by spray drying the Ad35-vectored tuberculosis (TB) AERAS-402 vaccine with mannitol-based stabilizers. Thermodynamic properties, water absorption, particle size distribution and morphology of the powders were evaluated. Virus survival during spray drying and storage was determined by medium Tissue Culture Infectious Dose (TCID(50)). ...

Calcium deficiency causes Endocarp Lesion disorder in pistachio nut. To investigate the effects of various calcium treatments on Endocarp Lesion disorder and some nut qualitative characteristics in Pistachio cv. Akbari, an experiment was done in completely randomized design with four treatments (1- control treatment, 2- calcium chelate foliar spray, 3- calcium nitrate and 4– calcium sulfate (gy...

Abstract Experimental investigations were performed on the hollow-cone spray of viscous liquids in high-pressure gas environment, aiming to obtain fundamental knowledge which was indispensable to survey the applicability of non-conventional new liquid fuels for the gas-turbine power-plant. Test liquid employed were water, diesel fuel, palm methyl ester (PME) and silicone-oil #10. The ambient ga...

To investigate the effects of silicon on the growth characteristics and the reduction of the powdery mildew damage to Zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq. ʻMagellanʼ), an experiment was carried out as a factorial experiment in the form of a randomized complete block design with two factors including eight treatments and three replications. The first factor included silicon concentrations at four levels...

In present study, spray-dried sourdough was produced using a pilot scale spray dryer and the physico-chemical and microbial characteristics of the obtained sourdough powder were investigated. The application of the spray-dried sourdough at different levels (3%, 6%, 9% and 15%) in breadmaking was also evaluated. Bulk density, wettability and suspensibility of the sourdough powder were 0.6 g/cm(3...

Heat transfer rate at the skin-air interface is of critical importance for the benefits of cryogen spray cooling in combination with laser therapy of shallow subsurface skin lesions, such as port -wine stain birthmarks. With some cryogen spray devices, a layer of liquid cryogen builds up on the skin surface during the spurt, which may impair heat transfer across the skin surface due to relative...