Asbestos on my desk

Asbestos Presence in a Factory that Produced Asbestos-Containing Products

In 2007, research was carried out to determine the type and amount of asbestos fibers in a Croatian factory with a long history of making asbestos-containing products.Since the 1970s, asbestos fibres have been considered carcinogenic in humans i.e as a known cancer-causing agent. In the environment, asbestos fibres are inactive and naturally resist biodegradation. In time, fibres can only be gr...

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ISCHEMIA IS ONE of the major factors causing secondary brain damage after severe head injury. We have investigated the value of continuous partial pressure of brain tissue oxygen (PbrO2) monitoring as a parameter for cerebral oxygenation in 22 patients with severe head injury(Glasgow Coma Scale score, <=8). Jugular bulb oxygenation, intracranial pressure, and cerebral perfusion pressure were si...

Computed tomography on the desk

3D Photography on Your Desk

A simple and inexpensive approach for extracting the threedimensional shape of objects is presented. It is based on `weak structured lighting'; it di ers from other conventional structured lighting approaches in that it requires very little hardware besides the camera: a desk-lamp, a pencil and a checkerboard. The camera faces the object, which is illuminated by the desk-lamp. The user moves a ...

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Primary or idiopathic erythermalgia is characterized by recurrent, red, warm, and painful lower extremities. It arises at young age and persists throughout life because no treatment is available. We report the cutaneous pathology of affected skin lesions of three patients with primary erythermalgia. Biopsy specimens showed a mild perivascular mononuclear infiltrate, thickened blood vessel basem...