In this study, the response surface methodology (RSM) based on the central composite design (CCD) was used to optimize the preparation condition of polypropylene-grafted maleic anhydride (PP-g-MA) microporous membrane by thermally-induced phase separation (TIPS) method. A mixture of dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) was used as diluent. The effect of polymer composition and qu...

Four male subjects were examined to assess the relationship of body fat content to deep muscle temperature and the endurance of a fatiguing isometric handgrip contraction at a tension set at 40% MVC. Muscle temperature was altered by the immersion of the forearm in water at temperatures varying from 7.5 to 40 degrees C. In all subjects, there was a water bath temperature above and below which i...

This study evaluated the effect of water-bath and microwave post-polymerization treatments on the flexural strength and Vickers hardness of four autopolymerizing reline resins (Duraliner II-D, Kooliner-K, Tokuso Rebase Fast-TR and Ufi Gel Hard C-UGH) and one heat-polymerized acrylic resin (Lucitone 550-L), processed using two polymerization cycles (short cycle - 90 minutes at 73 degrees C and 1...

This article describes about an instrument and method for aroma based quality detection of Basmati and other aromatic rice varieties. It comprises few modules such as odour delivery module, sniffing module, water bath module and computing module. Odour handling module helps to deliver odour to the sensor array; a sniffing unit comprising a sensor array module that includes a eight number of met...

When one passed as a student from Arts to Medicine, and back again to Arts-as some of us did-Professor Boas with his Shakespearean recollection of the witches would refer to our "fitful reappearances ." In making one of these, I invite you to come down from the bright circle where you have sojourned at the last few meetings, and have a peep at the pit-even though. in the modern theatre there ma...

Introduction In the distant past large animals were sometimes stunned by a heavy blow on the head where poultry was decapitated before slaughter During the last century concern for animal welfare increased. Concussion stunning was deemed not satisfactory, and improved stunning methods were developed. Stunning by captive bolt was introduced at the end of the 19th century, electrical stunning at ...

Animal killing for food production and the related operations are events that may induce pain, stress, fear and other forms of suffering to the animals. To face this problem and guarantee the animal welfare, the EU has adopted the Regulation (EC) N. 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing. Electrical water bath stunning is one of the methods used in commercial slaughterhou...

The customary slaughter method of birds killed for human consumption involves the stunning of several live birds at one time using electrical water baths supplied with constant voltages. The birds are hung upside-down on shackles prior to conveyance through the electrified bath. This system, which is used globally, is increasingly under scrutiny as research suggests that it can be both inhumane...

We report the first case of neonatal Legionnaires' disease associated with water birth in a spa bath at home. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 was detected from postmortem lung tissue.

Studies of indigenous ecological knowledge are getting attention not only among resource managers, policy-planners and Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) but also within and among local and indigenous communities themselves. During modernization, many of these communities have realized the threat of knowledge erosion and are attempting to take control of such knowledge, whi...