Odour, or rather the absence thereof, is gaining an increasing importance as selection criterion for adhesives. Typical examples in which this topic plays in important role include the hygiene, the building and the automotive industries. All types of adhesive are affected, regardless whether they are 100% solid systems (reactive or nonreactive), water or solvent-based. The lecture will cover th...

Introduction Health sector management is increasingly complex as new health technologies, treatments, and innovative service delivery strategies are developed. Many of these innovations are implemented prematurely, or fail to be implemented at scale, resulting in substantial wasted resources.   Methods A scoping review was conducted to identify articles that described the scale up process conce...

When an electronic nose (E-nose) is used to distinguish different kinds of gases, the label information of the target gas could be lost due to some fault of the operators or some other reason, although this is not expected. Another fact is that the cost of getting the labeled samples is usually higher than for unlabeled ones. In most cases, the classification accuracy of an E-nose trained using...

The lining of the nose and paranasal sinuses is continuous and it would be rare for inflammation to affect one without the other. In addition, the symptoms of sinusitis, particularly chronic sinusitis, and rhinitis overlap to a large extent and it is therefore convenient to consider the two together as rhinosinusitis. Similarly, the upper respiratory tract (nose and paranasal passages) and lowe...

Over the last twenty years, newly developed chemical sensor systems (socalled “electronic noses") have odour analyses made possible. This paper describes the applications of these systems for microbial detection in different fields such as medicine and the food industry, where fast detection methods are essential for appropriate management of health care. Several groups have employed different ...