Skin diseases are a major occupational health issue in tannery workers because of workrelated exposure to various toxic chemicals used tanning process.

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in using social media sites such as Facebook to deliver health interventions so as to expose people to content while they are engaging in their usual social media habit. This formative intervention development study is novel in describing a preliminary test of using the secret group feature of Facebook to deliver a behavioral intervention targeting users ...

ion and evaluation of studies. Each study that met the inclusion criteria was abstracted by two independent reviewers using the standard Community Guide abstraction process. Disagreements between reviewers were resolved by consensus. Community Guide methods were used to assess each study for internal and external validity (Appendix A, available Figure 2. Search yield for evidence included in MM...

The major technical challenge of vegetable tanning is to improve the higher wear-comfort, leather strength and water resistance efficiency in daily necessities products, aiming as an alternative chrome tanning. demonstration has been made by indigenous bovine fat Tanoak tree (Notholithocarpus densiflorus) bark-wood extract for usage process a new kind stuffing technique first time. tannin conte...

Tan spot (TS), caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Died) Drechs, is an important foliar disease of wheat and has become a threat to world wheat production since the 1970s. In this study a globally diverse pre-1940s collection of 247 wheat genotypes was evaluated against Ptr ToxA, P. tritici-repentis race 1, and stem rust to determine if; (i) acquisition of Ptr ToxA by the P. trit...

Variation in human pigmentation has long been an area of interest in biological anthropology, with the advent of genetic technologies allowing deeper plumbing of its evolutionary history. Genome-wide scans of selection show that pigmentation genes have undergone some of the strongest selection in many geographically distant populations. A variety of hypotheses for the photoprotective effects of...

Traditional tanning practices often result in harmful waste products that pose significant environmental risks, including water pollution, non-biodegradable solids, hazardous emissions, and unpleasant odors. However, this study introduces a simple effective alternative method for industrial-scale vegetable tanning, with the goal of minimizing pollution. This innovative eliminates use common sal...

Tannins are astringent, bitter plant polyphenols that either bind and precipitate or shrink proteins. The astringency from the tannins is that which causes the dry and puckery feeling in the mouth following the consumption of red wine, strong tea, or an unripened fruit[1]. The term tannin refers to the use of tannins in tanning animal hides into leather; however, the term is widely applied to a...