The authors research by experiments to define the potency of wounding of a special mouse trap which belongs to the spring-guns. Besides the regular assigned 9 mm blank cartridge also the 9 x 17 mm "green" cattle stunning cartridge is tested. Shots were made on soap, cotton and skin on different conditions. As result the authors found that by close range shots (up to 1 cm) by the blank cartridge...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration believes chemical odor breakthrough is no longer an adequate, sufficient indicator for when workers should change chemical cartridges. Therefore, OSHA's 1998 revision to its respiratory protection standard, 29 CFR 1910.134, requires users of chemical cartridge respirators to implement a cartridge change schedule based on "objective information o...

This paper proposes a MEMS-based sensor array enabling multiple clot-time tests for plasma in one disposable microfluidic cartridge. The versatile LoC (Lab-on-Chip) platform technology is demonstrated here for real-time coagulation tests (activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) and Prothrombin Time (PT)). The system has a reader unit and a disposable cartridge. The reader has no electrical...

OBJECTIVE Children and adults with type 1 diabetes who receive insulin pump therapy have reported hypoglycemia during air travel. We studied the effects of atmospheric pressure on insulin pump delivery. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Ten insulin pumps were connected to capillary tubes. The effects of changes in ambient pressure on insulin delivery, bubble formation, bubble size, and cartridge pl...

BACKGROUND Local anesthetic injection is one of the most anxiety provoking procedure in dentistry. Knowledge about change in pain related behaviour during consecutive visits helps in and scheduling of treatment procedures and management of children in dental clinic. AIM To compare the pain perception, behavioural response and the associated change in physiological parameters while receiving l...

Tohoku University, Japan is developing a new hand-held land mine detection dual-sensor (ALIS) which is equipped with a metal detector and a GPR. ALIS is equipped with a sensor tracking system, which can record the GPR and Metal detector signal with its location. The Migration processing drastically increases the quality of the imaging of the buried objects.Evaluation test of ALIS has been condu...

With this dual-cartridge system we extract 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] from a single serum sample by using a nonpolar octadecylsilanol silica cartridge to adsorb the vitamin D metabolites and other nonpolar substances; the polar substances wash through the cartridge. The eluted material is then applied to a second alkylamine cartridge, which adsorbs th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cause of postoperative leaks in 2 patients with Zenker diverticula treated with endoscopic staple-assisted esophagodiverticulostomy. DESIGN Medical chart review and simulated surgery. SETTING Teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two case reports of postoperative leaks in patients treated with endoscopic staple-assisted esophagodiverticulostomy and experimenta...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of 15 serotypes of salmonella to form biofilm on polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride (pvc) and glass surfaces. .initially slime production was assessed on cra agar and hydrophobicity of 20 salmonella strains isolated from poultry and human and two salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium references strains was achieved by microbial adhesion to n-hexa...