ID No : 43 ABSTRACT Concrete tends to crack due to its relatively low tensile strength which jeopardizes the good condition of steel reinforcement bars. Concrete cracks start at micro level and facilitate ingression of corrosive substances such as SO4 , Cl, O2. Corrosion of the rebar may result in failure of the structure. Self-healing concrete can provide crack repair immediately after crack i...

Wound care and management accounted for over 1.8 million hospital discharges in 2009. The complex nature of wound physiology involves hundreds of overlapping processes that we have only begun to understand over the past three decades. The management of wounds remains a significant challenge for inexperienced clinicians. The ensuing inflammatory response ultimately dictates the pace of wound hea...

Molecular Regulation of Wound Healing Wound healing in the skin is a complex biological process involving inflammation, chemotaxis of cells, mitosis of epidermal, dermal and vascular cells, neovascularisation, synthesis of extracellular matrix proteins and remodelling of scar tissue. Growth factors, cytokines, proteases and hormones have been shown to regulate most aspects of these processes in...

Exudate can be an excellent indicator of what is happening within a wound and, therefore, provides valuable information during patient assessment. The volume, consistency, and particularly odour and colour, of any exudate will inform the practitioner about bacterial contamination, infection and stage of healing (Hampton and Collins, 2003). However, in the chronic wound, exudate must be effectiv...

This paper proposes a self-healing wireless network mechanism to provide efficient servicing in Smart Grid network 1 . The nature of Smart Grid environment requires high level of wireless networking reliability and stability for providing accurate power related information to users. To provide these requirements in the wireless networking perspective, the proposed self-healing mechanism uses au...

OBJECTIVE Wound healing in an extreme environment with micro-gravity is not well characterized, despite the likelihood that the increasing use of manned spaceflight as a research and commercial enterprise raises the probability of traumatic injury in this state. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the impact of the isolated environment of the Mars Desert Research Station on mucosal imm...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost impact of an integrative medicine intervention on an inpatient oncology service. STUDY DESIGN This study used nonrandomized, nonequivalent groups. A baseline sample of inpatient oncology patients at Beth Israel Medical Center admitted to the medical oncology unit before implementation of the Urban Zen Initiative were compared with patients admitted after the Ur...

Wound healing is a complex tissue regeneration process that promotes the growth of new tissue to provide the body with the necessary barrier from the outside environment. In the class of non-healing wounds, diabetic wounds, and ulcers, dressing materials that are available clinically (e.g., gels and creams) have demonstrated only a slow improvement with current available technologies. Among all...

Concrete is the most widely used material in civil engineering, but due to its inherent brittleness, generation of cracks easily occurs. Crack healing an effective method for restoring mechanical properties concrete and improving durability. Of all current crack methods, microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation technology incredibly promising self-healing strategy that has received wid...

Hyaluronate-iodine complex is a wound healing adjuvant approved for use in the European Union. The objective of this study is to validate hyaluronate-iodine as a potential wound healing agent. Patients were recruited from the hospital, the outpatient clinic, and the wound healing center. Hyaluronate-iodine soaked gauze was applied to wounds either daily or every other day depending on the amoun...