JOURNAL OF WOUND CARE JANUARY, VOL 9, NO 1, 2000 Most wound healing is well controlled, but over-abundant deposition of collagen may result in hypertrophic or keloid scarring.1 These scars are raised, hard, lumpy and erythematous, and pruritis is invariably a distressing symptom.2 The prime clinical feature distinguishing keloid from hypertrophic scarring is that keloid scar tissue progressivel...

Abstract Introduction Scarring is the final common pathway for healing within skin. Scars can be itchy, painful, tight, and disfiguring. Despite advances in surgery there currently no reliably effective treatment reducing or preventing scarring. The primary aim of this research to assess available models scarring evaluate/further develop utility current assessment tools, an effort design a pilo...

Agricultural land abandonment is a globally significant threat to the sustenance of economic, ecological, and social balance. Although driving forces behind it can be multifold versatile, rural depopulation urbanization are contributors agricultural abandonment. In our chosen case study, focusing on two locations, Ruen Stamboliyski, within Plovdiv region Bulgaria, we use aerial photographs sate...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of permethrin-treated plastic sheeting (ITPS) applied as a lining to the ceiling or walls of rooms against pyrethroid-susceptible and pyrethroid-resistant Anopheles gambiae. METHOD Overnight tests were carried out in veranda-trap experimental huts in Vallée du Kou, where two molecular forms of A. gambiae, S and M, occur. The S form is mostly pyrethroid resis...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the ventilatory effect of plastic shields in a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection cluster site using CO2 tracer technique. Methods: We experimentally investigated indoor air ventilation technique verify formation SARS-CoV-2 clusters that erupted an office space shared by 30 individuals, among whom 11 were infe...

The interaction between groundwater and civil engineering works is a key aspect in geotechnical design. In the case of excavations confined sheet pile walls, steel sheeting, diaphragm cut-off or cofferdams, this design requires estimation, among other soil mechanics properties, flowing into excavation (seepage) caused by piezometry depletion. Numerical methods, graphical solutions, analytical p...

Information about asbestos stocks and flows is paramount for effective legacy management, both understanding potential exposure risks from the different product types remaining in built environment proactive resource planning their safe decommissioning, removal disposal. This paper provides an overview of Australian Stocks Flows Model Asbestos, a national model that best estimates to examine wa...

This paper reports a numerical study on the optimisation of lip size Z-sections under gravity loads. Numerical models cold-formed steel Z purlins restrained by cladding and angle struts subjected to sagging moment were developed validated against total 8 experimental results that failed in local or/and distortional buckling reported companion paper. Models varying levels complexity generated ke...