Keratoconjunctivitis sicca, conjunctival scarring, fibrosis, metaplasia, and shrinkage developed in 27 patients as an adverse reaction to practolol. Rashes, nasal and mucosal ulceration, fibrous or plastic peritonitis, pleurisy, cochlear damage, and secretory otitis media also occurred in some cases. Three patients suffered profound visual loss though most retained good vision. Symptoms and sig...

Decalcification is commonly employed in most histopathology laboratories for the microscopical examination of bone and other calcified tissues. Plastic processing without decalcification may produce superior results in terms of eliminating shrinkage and for demnonstrating osteoid versus mineralised matrix'-' but may give poor cytological detail and is a much longer process. The diagnosis of non...

Product quality for plastic injection molding process is highly related with the settings for its process parameters. Additionally, the product quality is not simply based on a single quality index, but multiple interrelated quality indices. To find the settings for the process parameters such that the multiple quality indices can be simultaneously optimized is becoming a research issue and ...

Cracking is a major concern in building applications. Cracks may arise from shrinkage, freeze/thawing and/or structural stresses, amongst others. Several solutions can be found but superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) seem to be interesting to counteract these problems. At an early age, the absorbed water by the SAPs may be used to mitigate autogenous and plastic shrinkage. The formed macro pores may...

This paper investigates material properties of metakaolin/slag-based geopolymer mortar (GPM), relevant for composite action with conventional Portland cement-based concrete (PCC). GPM formulations different workability (soft and stiff-plastic consistencies) were developed characterized regard to their compressive tensile strength development over time, shrinkage behaviour during hardening under...

Fibre reinforced mortars (FRM) containing fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) may suffer from volumetric changes despite fibre reinforcement, internal curing be required. This paper evaluates the efficiency of Superabsorbent Polymers (SAP) in reduction shrinkage. Autogenous (AS), plastic (PS) drying (DS) shrinkage were analysed for FRM with three types cement (CEM I, CE...

introduction: in iran, the main problem in greenhouse cucumber production and post-harvest shelf life is short due to the application of traditional packaging and storage methods. this research was carried out in order to investigate on the effects of packaging type and chitosan edible coating on the physicochemical and sensory characteristics of royal greenhouse cucumber during storage conditi...