An acute confusional state was observed to follow heavy exposure to polyurethane gloss paint fumes in a previously healthy 60 year old man. This state remitted over a 3-day period, but was followed by transient bone marrow suppression and evidence of liver cell damage. The corroborated absence of other toxins and the temporal association of exposure to paint fumes suggest that a volatile paint ...

Abstract Gloss is one of the main attributes to describe appearance surfaces and objects, as it contributes general quality perception. a multidimensional quantity which ‘specular gloss’ most commonly applied attribute. Specular gloss meters are standardized widely used in industry. However, their readings correlate only partially visual impression, also comprises distinctness-of-the-reflected-...

The popularity of on line document databases has led to a new problem nding which text databases out of many candidate choices are the most relevant to a user Identifying the relevant databases for a given query is the text database discovery problem The rst part of this paper presents a practical solution based on estimating the result size of a query and a database The method is termed GlOSS ...

We studied whether vision can teach touch to the same extent as touch seems to teach vision. In a 2 × 2 between-participants learning study, we artificially correlated visual gloss cues with haptic compliance cues. In two "natural" tasks, we tested whether visual gloss estimations have an influence on haptic estimations of softness and vice versa. In two "novel" tasks, in which participants wer...