Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) is a widely utilized process in various industrial applications, serving as protective and hard coating. However, its presence fields like fashion has only recently emerged, electroplating processes had previously dominated this reality. The future looks toward the replacement of most hazardous toxic electrochemical processes, especially those involving Cr(VI) cy...

Long-term exposure to radon increases the risk of developing lung cancer. There is considerable public concern about radon exhalation from building materials and the contribution to indoor radon levels. To address this concern, radon exhalation rates were determined for 53 different samples of drywall, tile and granite available on the Canadian market for interior home decoration. The radon exh...

The success of a wide range of commercial products and industrial processes depends on meeting specific flow requirements. Industrial applied rheology attempts to relate fundamental properties to fitness-for-use of fluids of commerce. Architectural and industrial coatings, molded plastics, adhesives, personal care products and cosmetics, inks, cement, drilling muds, ceramic slips, solder pastes...

swastika designs applied for ornamenting in many different arts before islamic period. these designs have important role in architecture ornaments at islamic period. in this paper we study concepts, aesthetic and evolution of these designs in islamic period architecture ornaments from beginning to end of zand and ghajar era. the thoughtful artists of islamic periods comprehended from the beginn...

Adjuvant high dose IVIgs are being used increasingly in a range of immune-mediated and auto-immune diseases. Although numerous immunomodulatory mechanisms have been suggested, the exact mechanisms of action are poorly understood. The efficacy of IVIg in certain diseases has been proven in clinical trials, in so far as IVIg is approved as the therapy of choice for Kawasaki syndrome and idiopathi...

A meta-analysis was performed in an attempt to clarify the proposed relationship between religiosity and psychological adjustment. Specific focus was given to the issue of definition, namely, whether differences in researchers’ conceptualizations of religiosity and mental health could account for the various contradictory findings by psychologists of religion. Analysis of 34 studies conducted d...

Less than a decade after the founding of the American Pharmaceutical Association, the noted American physician Oliver Wendell Holmes, addressing the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1860, made his oft-quoted statement that " ...if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes. " 1 The pharma...