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Upper Respiratory Tract Illnesses and Fatigue
Published in Gerald Matthews, Paula A. Desmond, Catherine Neubauer, P.A. Hancock, The Handbook of Operator Fatigue, 2017
Smith and his colleagues6 found that sucking zinc gluconate lozenges and using a nasal spray containing nedocromil sodium removed the cold-induced performance impairment. It is likely that both forms of medication have multiple modes of action. For example, nedocromil sodium suppresses the release of mediators such as histamine, leukotriene C4 and prostaglandin D2. One way in which the two compounds could produce similar effects is through changes in afferent stimulation. URTIs influence the trigeminal nerve and compounds which increase afferent stimulation may produce changes in the brain stem. Indeed, the presence of menthol and similar compounds in cold medication is because they produce symptomatic relief by stimulating the trigeminal nerve. Recent research has shown that sucking a peppermint (Smith, in preparation, a) or chewing menthol gum (Smith & Boden, in press) increases alertness in those with a cold but does not remove the performance decrements.
A review of metal-organic framework protective coatings for light metals
Published in Surface Engineering, 2022
Yonghua Chen, Liang Wu, Andrej Atrens, Fusheng Pan
The inhibition effect of MOFs loaded corrosion inhibitors in corrosive salt environments has also received increasing attention. Soheila et al. [83] synthesized aluminium fumarate MOFs corrosion inhibitor and applied it to AM60B. It was reported that the corrosion efficiency reached 88. Ren et al. [84] successfully prepared a anticorrosion material ZnG@ZIF-8 by embedding a green corrosion inhibitor ZnG (zinc gluconate) into porous hydrophobic ZIF-8. The corrosion resistance of the ZnG@ZIF-8/EP coating is presented in Figure 7. During immersion in the NaCl solution, the EP coating suffered severe corrosion and small bubbles appeared (a1-a3). The ZIF-8/EP coating showed slight corrosion and bubbles (b1-b2). The ZnG+ZIF-8/EP coating corroded seriously during the soaking process, and the white corrosion product increased continuously until the coating was completely covered (d1-d3).