As Biblia pauperum, we define not only books with an abbreviated text of Sacred Scripture, which were dominated by illustrations, but also cycles artistic representations, e.g. painted on the walls churches or decorating window stained-glass windows. However, other iconographic sources, such as stove tiles, are much less known. archaeological monuments, most often preserved in fragments, they h...

The restoration of the four northern windows 13th century Sainte-Chapelle in Paris from 2011 to 2014 has offered a unique opportunity investigate chemical composition and color medieval glasses. This impressive corpus, covering total surface 660 m2, was created record time few years. glasses ten selected panels were analyzed using non-destructive non-invasive techniques, with specific considera...

The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) technique combined with an EDXRS system has been applied to the study of ancient glasses, to determine whether repairs have been carried out or substitutions made of damaged parts [1]. In this work, we exploit image processing technique in order to enhance the SEM digital image, to improve its readability and, therefore, the identification of significant d...

Methodology: In this hospital based case-control study, 22 subjects (11 cases of lip neoplasm and 11 healthy individuals as Control group) were included in this study. Scraped exfoliated cytosmears were collected from the affected site of the lip and smearing was done in the precleaned-coded glass-slides. Two such slides were prepared from each subject. The cytosmears were immediately fixed in ...

Hemocytin, a multidomain protein from Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae), is an ortholog of von Willebrand factor and is expected to be a major mediator of hemocyte aggregation. Antiserum was generated against hemocytin, and immune staining of hemocytes, hemolymph, and nodules was performed. Hemocytin was observed in steady-state hemocytes but not in plasma, even after bacterial injection...