high volume of waste tires, problems associated with their disposal, aesthetic problems, and the expansion and innovation of reuse of used tire products is being addressed aggressively. Chipped or shredded tires are being used for a wide variety of products, including playground covers, doormats, roadbed, fill, shoes, and aggregate substitute in septic system drainfields. This Analysis of Tire ...

Cholecystolithiasis is a common disease, making cholecystectomy a commonly performed surgical procedure. The gross appearance of gallstones differs from case to case. To classify gallstones on the basis of their structure, we randomly collected gallstones from 100 (64 of them women) of 3,289 patients who underwent cholecystectomy at our hospital. The stones were grossly classified into five maj...

Chipped and broken functional teeth are common in modern sharks with serrated tooth shape. Tooth damage consists of splintering, cracking, and flaking near the cusp apex where the enameloid is broken and exposes the osteodentine and orthodentine. Such damage is generally viewed as the result of forces applied during feeding as the cusp apex impacts the skeletal anatomy of prey. Damage seen in s...

AIM To evaluate the incidence and characteristics of kidney stones in kidney transplant recipients. METHODS A literature search was performed using MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from the inception of the databases through March 2016. Studies assessing the incidence of kidney stones in kidney transplant recipients were included. We applied a random-effects model ...

This study investigated the composition of common duct gall stones from 61 patients, aged 49-94. The stones were collected endoscopically with a dormia basket after endoscopic papillotomy. The cholesterol content was measured both by infrared spectroscopy (mean 29%, range 0-99%) and enzymatically (mean 23%, range 0-96%). The results of the two measurements showed good correlation (r2 = 0.92), i...

This paper is a preliminary presentation of the large settlement which has been just recently discovered at Pyrgos-Agia Marina, thanks to intensive field survey, geophysical prospections and HD documentation sections left behind by mechanical terracing for construction works. The discovery larger section other remains indicates presence an early, long-lived, nucleated on west bank Pyrgos river....

PURPOSE We analyzed differences in urinary stone composition according to body mass index (BMI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January 2007 and December 2010, 505 ureteral or renal stones were collected from 505 patients who underwent surgical intervention. Data on patient age, gender, BMI, urinary pH, and stone composition were collected. RESULTS The patients' mean age was 49.2 years (rang...