Young children are at greatest risk of exposure to lead and its effects. Although lead is one of the most widely used elements with known health hazard, there is little data on the blood lead level (BLL) of children in the Kathmandu Valley. Thus, this study aimed to assess factors associated with high BLL in children who were 6-36 months of age and resided in the Kathmandu Valley. In this hospi...

This paper proposes a new approach for paint appearance simulation. Coatings color and appearance change significantly according to lighting and observation conditions. The aim of this study is to propose both real time and accurate solutions for painted surface simulation. To solve real time constraints, we have chosen to simulate the paint appearance thanks to textures. Each texture represent...

Most present-day interactive paint applications lack the means of adequately capturing a user’s gestures and translating them into realistic and predictable strokes, despite the importance of such a mechanism. We present a novel brush design that adopts constrained energy optimization to deform the brush tuft according to the user’s input movement. It incorporates bidirectional paint transfer a...

This study explores how paint affects the specific airflow resistance and visual appearance of nonwoven scrims used on acoustical ceiling tile. Nine different scrims are included. Each scrim is finished with two application rates of paint. The specific airflow resistance is measured by the ASTM C522 method. The painted samples are also scanned and the images processed by ImagePro software to ch...

The preparatory operations of DIC (Digital Image Correlation) tests were investigated in this study, with special emphasis on specimen cleaning and painting operations. As it is well known, are non-contact applied materials research, the analysis complex structures, and, nowadays, construction industry. use technologies has seen a dynamic increase all scientific fields. In our aluminum body pan...

Given its vapor pressure, toluene tends to partition to the atmosphere. Automobile emissions are the principal source of toluene in ambient air, with levels fluctuating in proportion to automobile traffic. Toluene can also be a common indoor contaminant, and indoor air concentrations are often several times higher than outside air. This is likely due to release of toluene from common household ...