This issue of Tobacco Control contains four papers reporting revelations found in the 26 million page “haystack” of tobacco industry internal documents open to researchers and the public on the world wide web. Anne Landman, who since August 1999 has daily posted document gems on the Smokescreen website, summarises evidence on how the tobacco industry intimidates and retaliates against companies...

The faint body image embedded into the Turin Shroud has not yet explained by science. We present experimental results of excimer laser irradiation (wavelengths 308 nm and 193 nm) of a raw linen fabric and of a linen cloth, seeking for a possible mechanism of image formation. We achieved a permanent coloration of both linens as a threshold effect of the laser beam intensity. The coloration is ob...

An in vitro gas production technique was used to investigate the associative effects of untreated or biologically-treated linen straw with berseem hay (H). The linen straw (LS) was biologically treated with white rot fungi (TLS). Ground samples (200 mg DM) of H, LS, TLS and the mixtures (50% w/w) of H + LS and H + TLS were incubated in 100 ml glass syringes with buffered rumen fluid. Cumulative...

This study report aims to identify planned changes in the initiation of optimization planning function Linen Management. method uses a case approach using interviews, document review and observation, Ishikawa's analysis. results shared that application linen handling had not been optimal, as result it an impact on nursing services room. The management room does yet have standard guidelines regu...

Aim of the present analysis of particles, in the range of 3-30 m, vacuumed from the Turin Shroud, is to perform a classification and possibly to refer them to the environments in which, from historical information, it results that the Shroud was exposed. Grains of pollen, linen and cotton fibers, mites, spores and fungi, mineral particles and particles possibly coming from body fluids have bee...

A newly effective system was used to bleach ligno-cellulosic textile materials. This system is based on two different newly synthesized natrium oxo-diperoxo molybdates, Na2[MoO (O2)2(C2O4)] and Na2[MoO (O2)2(C6H6O7)]. These two compounds were characterized by means of cyclic voltammetry, and the bleached fabrics were fully characterized by measuring their whiteness index, percent loss in fabric...

In this study, we analyzed the impact of dyeing and digital printing processes linen/silk fabric (70% linen/30% silk) on its color fastness shrinkage in directions warp weft. This is a highly relevant topic because single combines two natural fibers different origins—silk, protein, animal-based, whereas linen derived from cellulose is, thus, plant-based. Therefore, natures determine distinctive...

Results B. cereus complex constituted 164 cases (71.3%). Bacteraemia comprised 207 patient episodes (90.0%), of which 124 occurred in immunocompromised patients or those with intravascular devices. Physicians treated the organism in 68 episodes (29.5%). Environmental investigations confirmed heavy air contamination particularly within patient rooms and air conditioned wards. Dense airborne cont...

An insufficient number of linens, lack linen cleanliness, and untimely provision will affect patient satisfaction, service quality, hospital financing. Data at Puri Bunda Mother Child Hospital Malang showed 108 loss incidents from the initial stock 792 linens. This study was conducted to identify factors that influence Malang. The root problems identified through observations, interviews, Focus...