In August 1992, a physician notified the Alaska Division of Public Health (ADPH) that three patients at a psychiatric hospital had consumed ceramic glaze during ceramic therapy (i.e., recreation therapy involving the production of ceramic ware), and two of these patients had elevated blood lead levels (BLLs). This report summarizes the ADPH's investigation of these ingestions.

PURPOSE The purpose of this in vitro research project was to evaluate and compare the wear behavior of human tooth enamel opposing monolithic zirconia and other different ceramic restorative materials and also to observe the tetragonal to monoclinic phase transformation in zirconia-based ceramics that may occur while simulating wear occurring at room temperature in a wet environment. MATERIAL...

value of sub-km DEM products. A. L. Gleason, L. S. Glaze, R. R. Herrick, and J. B. Garvin: [email protected], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 698, Greenbelt, MD 20771; [email protected]), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK 99775-7320, [email protected]), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 600, Greenbelt, MD 20771; [email protected])

The production of confectionery products, especially those coated with chocolate or glaze, faces the challenges selecting high-quality and technological fatty bases for glaze filling on a daily basis. In nature, amount vegetable oils that have an optimal acid triglyceride composition use as such base is significantly limited. Indeed, most fats require partial hydrogenation stage, is, change in ...

One of the most widely distributed ceramics in North-eastern Mediterranean during 13th century ce was ceramic commonly called ‘Port Saint Symeon ware’, whose iconography reflects multicultural influences and traditions. Samples coming mainly from archaeological site Kinet Höyük (Cilicia, Turkey), as well several sites Mediterranean, enabled us to define output two production centres Port ware b...

The development of high-performance transparent conducting oxides is critical to many technologies from transparent electronics to solar cells. Whereas n-type transparent conducting oxides are present in many devices, their p-type counterparts are not largely commercialized, as they exhibit much lower carrier mobilities due to the large hole effective masses of most oxides. Here we conduct a hi...

Thermoelectric devices that are flexible and optically transparent hold unique promise for future electronics. However, development of invisible thermoelectric elements is hindered by the lack of p-type transparent thermoelectric materials. Here we present the superior room-temperature thermoelectric performance of p-type transparent copper iodide (CuI) thin films. Large Seebeck coefficients an...

Copper-based delafossite oxides are excellent candidates for the p-type transparent conducting oxide (TCO), which is essential in realizing semiconductor applications. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we report low-energy electronic structure of CuAlO2. We found that band near valence top characterized by hole bands with their maxima along Brillouin zone boundary. Furthe...