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Sweat Sweetie
The exhibition Sweat Sweetie documents a process of deconstructing and becoming. Using digitally printed fabric of her social media accounts as repeat patterns, Sweat Sweetie, Kadie Nugent’s online persona, creates video, soft objects, and handmade garments that reference the endless, online scroll …
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Carbon Nanotube-Based Wearable Sweat Sensors; Design and Fabrication
Wearable sweat sensors enable non-invasive diagnosis of various diseases and real-time health monitoring. Few sensors exhibit pH measurement on skin due to interference by sodium chloride ions. This thesis presents a multiplexing wearable sweat sensor using single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. …
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Sweat gland carcinoma of the breast: a morpho-histological study
VOLUME 1: 1. Sweat Gland Carcinoma of the Breast, 1932, EDINBURGH MEDICAL JOURNAL, VOL. XXXIX., No. 7, 1932. || 2. The Menopausal Age and Mammary Carcinoma, 1932, The Lancet. EDINBURGH MEDICAL JOURNAL, Vol. XL., 1932 || 3. Carcinoma in the Mammary Lobule and its Origin, 1933, EDINBURGH MEDICAL …
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Topical Formulation For Stimulating Sweat Secretion as an Alternative to Iontophoresis
Sweat test or pilocarpine iontophoresis test is the existing method for diagnosis of cystic fibrosis that is recommended to perform at 48 hours after birth. However, the current method is painful, with several side effects such as full thickness skin burn, skin rash, erythema etc. Therefore, the …
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Hydrogel-based Graphene Electrochemical Tattoo (GECT) Sensor for Tyrosine Sensing in Sweat
… of continuous monitoring and comfort. Meanwhile, sweat offers continuous access and comfort. Biomarkers in sweat are closely correlated with their levels in blood, enabling reliable results and assessment. One of these biomarkers is tyrosine. Tyrosine is a non-essential amino acid and the …
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The center of the universe: A ceremony at Pipe Spring Sweat Lodge
The Sweat Lodge at Pipe Spring is a healing place for many people. The spiritual leader of the lodge is a Southern Paiute man who conducts open ceremonies so that all people may participate in the process of cleansing body and spirit. The ritual process brings together the positive effects of group …
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Arm sweat mineral loss and total body mineral determinations in preadolescent boys
The cutaneous sweat loss of calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium and zinc of preadolescent boys on diets containing 30, 60, and 90 g protein and various mineral concentrations were studied. Arm sweat collections were made using the arm bag technique. Mineral and nitrogen …
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Blood, Tears, and Sweat: An Intersectional Excavation of the Literary Vampire in Neoliberal Discourse
<p>This project engages in a critical examination of the figure of the sympathetic vampire in paranormal romance novels and its relationship to neoliberal individualism, using an analytic frame informed by Valerie Smith's conceptualization of black feminist thinking; it focuses on the portrayal of …
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Self-Powered Wearable Sweat Monitoring using 2D WS2 Textile Integrated Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Future Personalized Healthcare
… non-invasive health monitoring solutions. Sweat-based sensing has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional diagnostic approaches, offering a rich source of biomarkers including electrolytes, metabolites, and stress-related molecules such as cortisol. However, conventional …
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Interrelationships Between the Kidneys and Eccrine Sweat Glands of Man Intheir Electrolyte and Total Osmotic Excretions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:14:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0010505.pdf: 3339574 bytes, checksum: 8faa42a8f04a0f1c265b1eb69100bc5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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Development and Characterisation of Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes, and their Application to Sweat Analysis for Cystic Fibrosis Diagnosis
… Pilocarpine Iontophoresis Test (QPIT) for the sweat electrolytes sodium and chlorideii. In the QPIT, the sweat glands are artificially stimulated, a sweat sample is collected, and the concentrations of sodium and chloride ions determined separately using standard benchtop analytical …
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African American Males and Issues of Fatherhood: An Examination of the Sweat Lodge as a Psychosocial and Spiritual Intervention
… & Nightingale 2008). The emergence of the Sweat Lodge as an intervention for Native Americans has had some promising results (Cohen, 2003; Edwards, 2003, Noe, Fleming & Manson 2003; Smith, 2005). However, there is limited research on the Sweat Lodge for non-native populations, specifically, …
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Blood, Sweat and Tears: Insights into the Lived Experiences of Graduates of an Accelerated Undergraduate Degree-Completion Program, A Phenomenological Study
<p>With the growing popularity of adult education programs in higher education, older working adults have more options for completing their bachelor‘s degrees. Accelerated degree-completion programs emerged in the 1970s and have gained popularity over the years. These programs are an option for …
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Inducing Liquid Evaporation with Hygroscopic Gels
Mammals secrete fluids from the sweat glands known as perspiration which helps in thermoregulation. However, sweat can interfere with vision, comfort, grip, and results in malodor due to bacterial action. To combat the aforementioned issues, antiperspirants are widely used personal hygiene products …
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Cutaneous mineral loss in preadolescent girls
… of Ca, Cu, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, K and Zn in the sweat of 7-10 year old girls living in southwest Virginia was investigated. Sweat samples were collected in an arm bag which covered the hand and forearm of the subject. The samples were wet ashed and assayed on an Atomic Absorption …
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Effect of sodium chloride supplementation on serum sodium concentration, cardiovascular function, and physical and cognitive performance
… of sodium chloride supplementation on serum and sweat sodium concentration, cardiovascular function, and physical and cognitive performance. Sweat sodium losses, alone, caused a significant decline in serum sodium concentration (-6.4±1.6 mEq/L, p=0.001) during 3h cycling in the heat in …
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AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM BY WHICH ALUMINIUM AND OTHER POLYVALENT CATIONS INHIBIT ECCRINE SWEATING
… aluminium and other polyvalent cations reduce sweat output of human and rat eccrine sweat glands. It was shown that sweating in rat plantar eccrine sweat glands could be induced in the anaesthetized animal by systemic administration of carbachol (0,0025-2500 ug/kg) or by local intradermal …
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The effects of water ingestion on high intensity cycling performance in a moderate ambient temperature
… fluid (NF) or attempting to replace their ~1.7 l sweat loss measured in a previous 1 h familiarisation performance ride at ~85% of peak oxygen uptake (VO₂ peak) with artificially sweetened, coloured water (F). During F the cyclists drank 1.49 ± 0.14 1 (values are mean± SEM), of which 0.27 ± 0.08 1 …
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Firefighter thermoregulation: clothingfit, cognition, and menthol
… Recent menthol studies have found a reduced sweat rate when menthol was applied. Firefighters could benefit from a delay in sweat rate because sweating in the high humidity of the micro-environment may lead to hypohydration without the benefit of cooling. The present study had three purposes: …
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Multiphase Interfacial Phenomena for Liquid Manipulation and Defrosting
… salts). We leverage the composition of human sweat (97% water and 3% minerals) and employ a hygroscopic substance near the outlet of an artificial sweat duct rig. This leads to complete diffusion and dehydration of sweat, forming a natural mineral plug within the artificial sweat duct that …
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