Background: Sun protection materials have been one of the major concerns in pharmaceutical industry since almost one century ago. Various materials have been found to have such an effect but there are still many unknown substances that have not been discovered.Objective: To introduce a novel mineral-based sun lotion with considerable UV absorption properties compared to commercially available s...

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...

At this time the European Union regulations require that the heterotrophic plate counts (HPC) of mineral waters be assessed at two recovery temperatures: 22 degrees C for 72 h and 37 degrees C for 24 h. This procedure is time consuming and expensive. Development of new rapid methods for microbiological assessment of the microbial flora in the bottled water is an industry-driven need. The object...

SRK Consulting (UK) Limited (SRK) is an associate company of the international group holding company, SRK Consulting (Global). SRK provides a comprehensive range of consulting services to the resource industry. Consulting services are for mineral resource projects ranging from exploration, development and exploitation through to closure, and in the fields of geology, mining, infrastructure, bio...

In Brazil there are many regions where the extraction mining and processing of ores containing elements of great economical importance as tin, niobium and tantalum. Some of these ores have uranium and thorium natural decay series associated. This study was carried out in a niobium mine, where is obtained concentrates of niobates-tantalates, cassiterite and zirconite. The aim of this study is th...

INTRODUCTION The purpose is to present the incidence of occupational diseases and their causal factors in the sections and divisions of the national economy in Poland. MATERIAL AND METHODS The analysis is based on the cases of occupational diseases obligatorily reported in 2009-2011 from all over the country to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases. Data is presented as absolute numbe...

Yunnan province is rich of mineral resources and the mining industry is the pillar industry in Yunnan. But with the development of mining economy, the problems of the ecological environmental damage have come out. Under the mechanism of ecological environment compensation, the mining economic development in Yunnan needs to deal well with the problems of environmental protection. According to th...