Around the town of Cermik in south-east Turkey there are many deposits of asbestiform minerals, some of which are used to make whitewash or stucco. A sample of 7000 of the population revealed 461 (6.5%) with pleural thickening and calcification, of whom 103 (1.47% of the total) had evidence of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. Forty-one patients with respiratory cancer were admitted to the Diyar...

This article focuses on the production of plaster ornaments in 19th century. The concludes with a special example Netherlands. From Renaissance stucco walls and ceilings were partly cast. In course century, for are manufactured an industrial scale. Unique Netherlands country house Wassenaar is figurative frieze by sculptor-stuccoist Wilhelm Dankberg from Berlin.

Retrieving an object from cluttered spaces such as cupboards, refrigerators, or bins requires tracking objects with limited no visual sensing. In these scenarios, contact feedback is necessary to estimate the pose of objects, yet are movable while their shapes and number may be unknown, making association contacts extremely difficult. While previous work has focused on multi-target tracking, as...

The fresco technique performed with slaked lime putty as binding material has been well known since Antiquity. However, the geochemical processes that occur on surface have generally described part of carbonation process intonaco itself. When approaching this from experimental archaeology, it observed for first time during execution period (from 0 to 20 h, approximately) occurring stucco are di...

Identifying patterns of factors associated with aircraft accidents is of high interest to the aviation safety community. However, accident data is not large enough to allow a significant discovery of repeating patterns of the factors. We applied the STUCCO algorithm to analyze aircraft accident data in contrast to the aircraft incident data in major aviation safety databases and identified fact...