OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of occupational exposures to coke oven emissions (COEs) and benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) on the prevalence of hypertension and abnormal electrocardiogram (ECG) in coke oven workers. METHODS We included 880 coke oven workers and 710 oxygen employees in the exposed and control groups, respectively. Blood pressure (BP), ECG, blood lipid levels, and glucose levels of a...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effect of sintering condition on matrix formation and subsequent drug release from polymer matrix tablet for controlled release. The present study highlights the use of a microwave oven for the sintering process in order to achieve more uniform heat distribution with reduction in time required for sintering. We could achieve effective sinte...

High-resolution gas-phase infrared spectroscopy of buckminsterfullerene (C 60 ) was attempted near 8.5 μmusing cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Solid C 60 was heated in a high-temperature (∼950K) oven and cooled using an argon supersonic expansion generated from a 12.7mm × 150 μm slit.The expected S/N ratio is ∼140 for vibrationally cold C 60 , but no absorption signal has been observed, presumab...

Uraria crinita is widely used as a popular folk drink; however, little is known about how the post-harvest operations affect the chemical composition and bioactivity of UC. We assessed three drying methods (Oven-drying, Air-drying, Sun-drying), as well as the Oven-drying temperature using metabolomics approaches and bioactivity assays. The samples processed at 40 degree show a greater effect on...

UNLABELLED The type IV dental stone is widely used for the fabrication of dyes and master casts for fixed and removable partial prostheses. It is typically normal to wait at least 24 hours for the casts to dry prior to beginning the laboratory procedures. The waiting time has been shown to be greatly reduced by using microwave drying. OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the influence of drying tec...

Owen, L.A. 1989. Neotectonics and deformation in the Karakoram Mountains and Nanga Parbat Himalaya. In: N.-A. Momer and J. Adams (Editors), Paleoseismicity and Neotectonics. Tectonophysics, 163: 227-265. The Karakoram Mountains and the Nanga Parbat Himalaya are one of the most rapidly rising mountain areas in the world with uplift rates in the order of 2 mm/yr. Large-scale regional warping is t...

From ROSAT imaging data we have detections and upper limits for a sample of 26 tailed radio sources in clusters of galaxies mostly from the sample of O’Dea & Owen (1985). All sixteen of the detected sources are unresolved in the ROSAT PSPC images. The sources bright enough to perform X-ray spectral analysis have power-law indices similar to BL Lacs and Seyfert galaxies. We find that there is a ...

The effects of processing methods viz oven-drying, acid-treatment and sun-drying on the nutritive value shrimp waste meal (SWM) was examined. Five purified diets were formulated. A basal diet (Nitrogen-free), a reference that contained whole hen’s egg three test oven-dried, acid-treated sun-dried SWM as their protein sources respectively. added to supply 100/kg crude in different at expense cor...

The effect of oven-drying on the gross energy content of rat carcasses was investigated. No losses of carcass energy could be ascribed to oven-drying per se.