This study was designed to investigate radiation exposure to a physician performing fluoroscopically guided caudal epidural steroid injections. The prospective study design included 100 consecutive fluoroscopically guided caudal epidural steroid injections performed on patients with radiculitis from either herniated nucleus pulposus or lumbar spinal stenosis. Radiation exposure was monitored wi...

The field of personnel radiation monitoring is presently in a state of radical change. It appears that the unreliability of the film badge is now firmly established, bringing into question the value of much of the massive amount of personnel dosimetry data accumulated in the past three decades. This article examines the evidence "against" the film badge and reviews the comparative studies "for"...

Personnel monitoring of more than 40,000 radiation workers in India is being carried out routinely using a Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) made thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) badge based on CaSO4:Dy phosphor embedded in Teflon discs [1], and a photographic film badge. Till recently the TLD badges were read using the manual type TLD badge reader system with an external interface unit for...

BACKGROUND In May 2010, Switzerland introduced a heterogeneous smoking ban in the hospitality sector. While the law leaves room for exceptions in some cantons, it is comprehensive in others. This longitudinal study uses different measurement methods to examine airborne nicotine levels in hospitality venues and the level of personal exposure of non-smoking hospitality workers before and after im...

In this paper, we present enhancements of the Privacy Badge, which is a privacy-awareness user interface for small devices with limited capabilities. The Privacy Badge was created to visualize privacy loss in ubiquitous and pervasive computing environments and to enable users to do privacy settings in an easy and understandable way. We introduce the service anticipation as a new feature and pre...

State Registered Nurses' Badge. There will be considerable delay in issuing the State Registered Badge for Nurses to those who have made application, owing to the fact that a largo number have omitted to give the particulars asked for. It is absolutely necessary that the full name of the nurse should bo given, together with her registration number and the part of the Register oil which she is r...

Integration of telephone systems with computer systems is an important part of the development of the automated ooce. Much work has already been undertaken integrating digital voice and data into a single network 1] but there has been less commercial eeort invested in improving the telephone interface. Although these interfaces are functionally very sophisticated they are mostly cryptic and the...

Major type of internal can coating used for food and beverages is made from epoxy resins, which contain among their components bisphenol A (BPA) or diglycidyl ether (BADGE). These be released contaminate the beverage. There no specific European legislation coatings, but there on substances setting migration limits. Many investigations have paid attention to BPA due its classification as endocri...

OBJECTIVES Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) is the major component in commercial liquid epoxy resins, which are manufactured by co-reacting bisphenol A with epichlorohydrin. This study was performed to show the developmental effects of prenatal and postnatal exposures to BADGE in male rat offspring. METHODS Mated female rats were divided into four groups, each containing 12 rats. The dosi...