Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is considered to be a promising candidate marker of alcohol consumption, but exhibits a short window of detection in blood or urine. Keratinized tissues are known to retain foreign substances and to provide a greater retrospective window of detection than body fluids. Therefore, post-mortem hair, skin swabs, and stratum corneum samples were collected from four subjects w...

In this work, a method to provide fingerprint vitality authentication, in order to improve vulnerability of fingerprint identification systems to spoofing is introduced. The method aims at detecting ‘liveness’ in fingerprint scanners by using the physiological phenomenon of perspiration. A wavelet based approach is used which concentrates on the changing coefficients using the zoom-in property ...

BACKGROUND Findings from the literature vary in relation to whether physical activity brings about less cognitive decline in old age. The present study investigated self-reported levels of physical activity in old age and its association with the risk of dementia-related mortality. METHODS We included data from 31,086 subjects, between 65 and 80 years old, from the CONOR (Cohort of Norway) da...

background : postmenopausal hot flash is a common disease amongst women with high prevalence of 75%. hormone replacement therapy (hrt) is a well-known relief of symptoms which has disadvantages such as side effects and contraindication for certain types of hormone related diseases and breast or estrogen related cancers. one of the alternatives is acupuncture which is an east asian and more spec...

0167-8655/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2012.01.009 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Dipartimento di Informa of Naples Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, It E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. (C. Sansone). It has been showed that, by employing fake fingers, the existing fingerprint recognition systems may be easily deceived. So, there is an urgent n...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic bilateral thoracic sympathicolysis (EBTS) is an effective and minimally invasive procedure used for patients with primary hyperhidrosis. The purpose of this study was to examine plantar hyperhidrosis before and after EBTS. METHODS A total of 198 patients with primary hyperhidrosis underwent 396 thoracoscopic sympathicolysis of ganglia T2-T3 in a prospective study. All co...

Replacement of assumed preoperative deficits, in addition to generous substitution of an unsubstantiated increased insensible perspiration and third space loss, plays an important role in current perioperative fluid regimens. The consequence is a positive fluid balance and weight gain of up to 10 kg, which may be related to severe complications. Because the intravascular blood volume remains un...