The Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency (VAEA) was established to develop a long-term plan for the prioritised removal of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) from government-owned buildings. safest and most sustainable way end lethal legacy is through prioritised, planned, safe ACMs built environment. In this article, we describe our consolidated register (AIRSystem); custom risk assessment ...

we investigated the distribution of asbestos containing materials(acms) in korea for 15 school buildings built before and after 1990, including elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. in order to perform risk assessments of samples gathered from the buildings, the study used four different rules as the criteria: results from the ahera rule, the hse rule and the astm rule on acms we...

In Italy, use and production of asbestos asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were banned in 1992, however, the risk exposure to still exists, because most ACMs are located industrial public buildings. A total 111 Italian buildings with friable non-friable surveyed; 500 air samples collected areas where contamination might have occurred. Airborne fiber concentration calculated from was averaged...

Background: Asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) can still be found in many homes in Australia and other countries. ACMs present a health risk when they are damaged or disturbed, such as during do-it-yourself home renovations. However, community members lack knowledge and awareness about asbestos identification and its safe management in residential settings. Objective: The objective of our stu...

Given Australia’s significant and aged asbestos legacy, the long-term sustainability of effective accessible waste management is a national priority Asbestos National Strategic Plan. The current policy for managing hazardous via deep burial in landfill. Technological alternatives to approved landfill methods exist could be considered innovative sustainable additional options waste, where these ...

As millions of immigrants moved to Hong Kong (HK) from China in the recent decades, large amount of residential housings were built in the early years and a substantial proportion of those buildings used asbestos-containing materials (ACMs). Since the number of new cases of ARDs diagnosed has increased year by year since 1990's, the remarkable increase of incidences had drawn the attention of t...

A special finite element method based on approximate component mode synthesis (ACMS) was introduced in [U. Hetmaniuk, R. Lehoucq, A special finite element method based on component mode synthesis, ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, 44 (2010), 401-420]. ACMS was developed for second order elliptic partial differential equations with rough or highly varying coefficients. Here, ...

Atypically-shaped cardiomyocytes (ACMs) constitute a novel subpopulation of beating heart cells found in the cultures of cardiac myocyte-removed crude fraction cells obtained from adult mouse cardiac ventricles. Although ~500 beating ACMs are observed under microscope in the cell cultures obtained from the hearts of either male or female mice, the origin of these cells in cardiac tissue has yet...

Nitrogen-doped porous activated carbon monoliths (NDP-ACMs) have long been the most desirable materials for supercapacitors. Unique to the conventional template based Lewis acid/base activation methods, herein, we report on a simple yet practicable novel approach to production of the three-dimensional NDP-ACMs (3D-NDP-ACMs). Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) contained carbon nanotubes (CNTs), being pre-d...

The present study was designed to examine the postnatal developmental changes of atypically shaped cardiomyocytes (ACMs) prepared from the heart of newborn [postnatal day 1 (day-1)] through aged (12-month-old) mice. ACMs were identified as a novel type of self-beating cardiomyocyte with a peculiar morphology in mouse cardiac ventricles. The cell length of ACMs significantly increased during the...