background: migrant farmworkers are prone to several psychosocial stressors. objective: to investigate the effect of perceived psychosocial factors on pesticide exposure among seasonal migrant hispanic farmworkers in north carolina, usa. methods: a cross-sectional interview survey of 187 seasonal migrant farmworkers of mexican descent, identified from labor camps located in rural counties in no...

 Abstract Background: Mustard gas, lethal in high doses, affects multiple organs such as skin, eye and respiratory system. We studied the development of late onset mustardinduced polyneuropathy among chemically wounded Iranian veterans. Methods: In this descriptive study, 100 chemically wounded Iranian veterans with severe eye involvement were examined for any signs and symptoms of polyneuropat...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate sutureless keratoplasty using a chemically-defined bioadhesive (CDB) made from food or medical additives. METHODS Sutureless automated lamellar therapeutic keratoplasty (ALTK) using a CDB was performed on three rabbit eyes. Allogenic lamellar graft was transplanted onto the recipient bed using either suture fixation or a sutureless technique u...

In recent years, the introduction and systematic application of new diagnostic techniques has enormously increased the opportunities to investigate magnetic fields of chemically peculiar (CP) stars. To approach the problem of modelling these fields, in previous papers we set up a theory aimed at describing the magnetic configuration due to the superposition of a dipole with an arbitrary quadrup...

This paper presents the catalogue and the method of determination of averaged quadratic effective magnetic fields B e for 596 main sequence and giant stars. The catalogue is based on measurements of the stellar effective (or mean longitudinal) magnetic field strengths B e , which were compiled from the existing literature. We analysed the properties of 352 chemically peculiar A and B stars in t...

Background Mammalian cells are used extensively in the production of recombinant proteins, and of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) in particular. The trend towards avoiding animal-derived components in biopharmaceutical production processes has led to the extensive use of nonanimal origin hydrolysates such as plant hydrolysates or yeast hydrolysates. The source of hydrolysates affects cell growth a...

We report the manufacture of novel graphene diode sensors (GDS), which are composed of monolayer graphene on silicon substrates, allowing exposure to liquids and gases. Parameter changes in the diode can be correlated with charge transfer from various adsorbates. The GDS allows for investigation and tuning of extrinsic doping of graphene with great reliability. The demonstrated recovery and lon...