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2 unusual facts about Refractory


American Ceramic Society

Refractory Ceramics explores ceramics for use in high temperature and other hostile environments.

Refractory

Usually, refractories require special heat-up techniques to ensure that their performance will be attained as designed, and to avoid thermal shock and drying stresses until the operational status is achieved.


Alan S. Kornacki

His dissertation focused on refractory inclusions in Carbonaceous Chondrites.

Brian Monahan

In May 2003, Dr. Monahan was presented with the 18th Annual Clinical Investigation Program Award for his project entitled, A Pilot Study of Oxaliplatin and Capecitibine in Adult Patients with Refractory Solid Tumors.

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

In areas where a majority had taken the oath, such as Paris, the refractory minority could be victimized by society at large: nuns from the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, for example, were subjected to humiliating public spankings.

Ethacizine

It is also indicated as a treatment of refractory tachycardia associated with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome.

Fosphenytoin

Fosphenytoin was more successfully used to relieve pain refractory to opiates in a 37-year-old woman with neuroma, according to Dr. Gary J. McCleane of the Rampark Pain Center in Lurgan, Northern Ireland.

Frank Kasper phases

While addition of refractory elements like W, Mo or Re to FK phases helps to enhance the thermal properties in such alloys as steels or nickel-based super alloys, it increases the risk of unwanted precipitation in intermetallic compounds.

Glembatumumab vedotin

In May 2010, the U.S FDA granted Fast Track designation to CDX-011 for the treatment of advanced, refractory or resistant GPNMB-expressing breast cancer.

Iratumumab

Iratumumab is a human monoclonal antibody used in the treatment of oncological diseases such as relapsed refractory CD30-positive lymphoma including Hodgkin's disease.

Ponatinib

At the 2010 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, ARIAD announced from a Phase I study of ponatinib in patients with resistant and refractory chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL).

Postherpetic neuralgia

Gallium maltolate in a cream or ointment base has been reported to relieve refractory postherpetic neuralgia.

Trigeminal neuralgia

Gallium maltolate in a cream or ointment base has been reported to relieve refractory postherpetic trigeminal neuralgia.

University of Florida Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Program

Wayne Goodman and Gary Geffken, the UF OCD program focuses on training and treatment of refractory Obsessive–compulsive disorder.


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