(1) The prevalence was also higher in medium and heavy smokers.
(2) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(3) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
(4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(5) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
(6) Alveolar deposition, however, assessed in terms of particle retention at 24 hours, was significantly (p less than 0.01) less in the smokers.
(7) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(8) Twelve young male smokers each participated in four conditions on 4 separate days: stress + nicotine, stress + placebo (stress alone), rest + nicotine (nicotine alone), and rest + placebo.
(9) At cut-off levels chosen to yield the same false positive rate the quantitative DBA method detected 93% of smokers, close to that of 98% detected with the cotinine RIA.
(10) Smokers who have had changes of above said subsets of lymphocytes in the lungs may develop lung cancer.
(11) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
(12) After a four-week period on a placebo, hypertensive smokers were treated with slow-release nicardipine 40 mg twice daily for six months and were checked at the end of the placebo period, after the first dose of nicardipine and at the end of six months of therapy.
(13) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(14) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(15) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(16) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
(17) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
(18) While millions have stopped smoking in the past two decades, about 55 million people continue to smoke in the U.S. Of these smokers 85% would like to quit, and a majority have tried to do so at least once.
(19) We investigated the effect of vitamin E (dl-alpha-tocopherol) on lipid peroxidation in 13 healthy smokers.
(20) These reversible changes in adrenergic regulation after smoking cessation may be associated with the relatively rapid reduction in cardiovascular disease risk among ex-smokers.
Superheated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Superheat
Example Sentences:
(1) The results with all the compounds were generally similar, with broad temperature optima between 80 and 90 C, and with significant uptake in boiling (93 C) but not in superheated water (97 C).
(2) The article gives a brief historical review of the now obsolete method of atmocausis and reports on two cases of very deep internal burns after direct intrauterine application of superheated steam; one of the patients died as a result of this procedure.
(3) The new governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, who has his first day in office on Monday, may find that his £250,000 housing allowance fails to stretch far in London's superheated property market.
(4) After an outbreak of 10 cases of legionellosis in our hospital, recommended measures including superheating of the hot water to 80 degrees C, hyperchlorination to 2 ppm, and flushing resulted in no new cases in the following 5 years.
(5) A subsurface temperature maximum and superheated tissue produce high pressures that eject fragments from the tissue.
(6) Vapor-dominated systems, which contain superheated steam, have less potential for contamination but are relatively uncommon.
(7) Concentrating solar power plants focus sunlight from hundreds of mirrors onto a central tower , where water is superheated into steam that can turn turbines and make electricity.
(8) Disinfection of water distribution systems by superheating and flushing or by hyperchlorination is feasible.
(9) The method also poses dangers inherent in the use of superheated salt solution or hot glycerin.
(10) Monte Carlo neutron transport calculations were performed to obtain the neutron response functions of a superheated drop detector (SDD-100) that is surrounded by polyethylene of various thicknesses.
(11) The tocopherols and unsaturated fatty acid constituents of origanum, laurel, aniseed and coriander underwent little change after pasteurization with superheated steam, indicating stability, which may be due to the synergistic effect of tocopherols and phenolic compounds present in these spices.
(12) Known the temperature before the throttling device, the evaporating temperature and the one of the eventual superheating, they enable to promptly calculate the volume of the refrigerant in the gaseous phase, both as dry saturated vapour and superheated vapour; besides, they allow the quick calculation of the speed of the fluid inside thepiping system, the performance of the compressor under different working conditions and with different refrigerants, and so on.
(13) It is only the introduction of the x-y raster principle combined with a described dual system array (CMT Selectotherm System) which permits the high and rather homogeneous supply of thermal energy also to deep-seated tumor tissue in the patient without concomitant critical superheating of tissues near the skin.
(14) We examined the possibility of chemical evolution in superheated hydrothermal environments and found the formation of microspheres at 250 degrees C and above from a mixture of glycine, alanine, valine, and aspartic acid.
(15) Previously, we have developed a theoretical model for the prediction of the threshold neutron energy to nucleate bubbles in our superheated materials and a model for the calculation of the energy dependent response function of SDD.
(16) Each superheated liquid droplet is a potential nucleation site, with the minimum energy needed to form a bubble at the nucleation site being inversely proportional to the square of the difference between the applied and the vapor pressure (i.e., Emin alpha(delta P)-2.
(17) The organism was not eliminated from the hospital water supply despite shock chlorination and superheating of water tanks.
(18) Therefore, it is possible to make a rem-response Superheated Drop Detector.
(19) Five hundred flats will be “ affordable ” – ie rented out at up to 80% of London’s superheated market rate – but the bulk are for private sale, and are currently being marketed in a green-roofed sales cabin on the site.
(20) The extrusion performance of a protein will thus depend on the amount of insoluble aggregate produced inside the extruder and on protein-protein interactions that occur after the superheated molten mass leaves it.