Cuprous oxide-based antifouling paint is now the most common type in use, especially in the shipping industry. Anti-fouling paints prevent or slow down the growth of organisms attached to the hull, in order to improve a vessel’s performance and durability. However, copper is a scarce resource and never can be retrieved or recycled after leaching into the sea. The need to protect sensitive marin...

Vehicle coating is an important component of automotive manufacturing. The paint shop constitutes the plurality of initial investment in an automotive assembly plant, consumes the majority of energy used in the plant's operation, and generates significant waste from paint overspray. The coating process also results in the emission of polluting volatile organic compounds (VOCs). New paint techno...

Surgery is a crucial intervention and provides the best chance of cure for patients with colorectal cancer. Experimental clinical evidence, however, suggests that paradoxically surgery itself may precipitate or accelerate tumor recurrence and/or liver metastasis development. This review addresses various aspects surgery-induced formation sheds light on role inflammation as potential trigger Und...

ion such as a widget set including buttons, menus, and other basic GUI elements. Performing the transformation of each client’s representation to pixels locally enables the GUI server to predict all graphical primitives that are needed for any screen update and, as a consequence, to estimate overall execution times of redrawing jobs in advance of execution. The sequence of graphical primitives ...

The aim of this project was to determine whether any intersample variations between architectural paint products of the same brand could be established. Different batches of the same product were analysed to test whether they could be distinguished. Samples analysed included batches of white paint manufactured over several months and red and blue colour samples. Samples were analysed by microsc...

An oil painting by Claude Monet, Port-Goulphar, Belle-Ile 1887 (collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales), was examined to determine both the identity of the pigments used by the artist in this painting and his technique of mixing colors and laying paint on the canvas. The extremely complex construction of the painting was revealed by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SE...

Title X of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 addresses the control of lead-based paint hazards in federally assisted housing. It also provides for consistency and quality control in evaluating and controlling lead hazards in all housing. At the time of sale or rental of privately owned housing built before 1978, the year the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the resident...

Studies have shown that volatile emissions of chemicals may result in various disorders in our body. The main aim of this study was to determine the effects of oil paint vapor on red blood cells, HCT and Hb in male rats. In this experimental laboratory study, male Wistar rats were randomly divided into control and exposed to oil paint vapor for 1h/day and 8h/day. After 10 weeks blood samples we...