Benzisothiazolinone (1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one or BIT) is an antimicrobial agent used as a preservative in multiple water-based solutions, such as glues, cleaning agents, polishes, paints, varnishes, and hardeners (1). The use of this preservative is allowed in household and industrial products (2); however, its use in cosmetics is not allowed (3). It may occasionally be present in PVC gloves ...

Wood is a material that familiar to humans and environment-friendly, it used widely as building material. However, the dispute over housing defects have increased in Korea, various occurred timberwork become disputes. Notwithstanding, efforts analyze systematically reasonably solve problem are lacking. In this study, from complexes Korea were standardized, critical selected suggest method manag...

Sexual adornments often vary markedly across a species’ range, which presumably is owing to differences in local environmental conditions and the associated selection pressures, such as natural versus sexual selection or the relative signaling value of different ornamental traits. However, there are only a few reported examples in which the information content of mating signals varies geographi...

Shell beads appear to have been one of the earliest examples of personal adornments. Marine shells identified far from the shore evidence long-distance transport and imply networks of exchange and negotiation. However, worked beads lose taxonomic clues to identification, and this may be compounded by taphonomic alteration. Consequently, the significance of this key early artefact may be underes...

Many software projects spend a significant proportion of their time developing the User Interface (UI), therefore any degree of automation in this area has clear benefits. Such automation is difficult due principally to the diversity of architectures, platforms and development environments. Attempts to automate UI generation to date have contained restrictions which did not accommodate this div...

The design of evacuation plans for safety purposes is based on the graphical synthesis and visualization data derived from high-performance measurement systems. post-processing requires some suitable procedures including many steps, to obtain information needed. These are related global use system, real operating conditions, complexity building, simplifying hypotheses, management. As a prelimin...

Balma del Gai site is a small rock shelter situated in the municipality of Moià (Barcelona, ​​ Spain) at an altitude 760 m above sea level and 50 km from current coastline. The levels occupation this context are dated between 13,442 cal BP 9,552 BP, being related to so-denominated “Epimagdalenian” “Microlaminar Sauveterroid” complexes. excavations have provided important mollusc samples, both t...

The article is devoted to a brief description of the Abashevo culture. This culture emerged in forest areas Eastern Europe at end Middle Bronze Age. monuments date back 22nd–19th centuries BC. It was cattle herders and metallurgists. represented by barrow cemeteries, settlements, hoards random finds. analyzes funeral rites Several types vessels are distinguished ceramic material, their ornament...