One of the wonderful aspects of being an oncologist in the latter part of his career is to be able to reflect upon some successes in this field over the past 30 years. When I was an oncology fellow in the late 1970s, training with Martin Tattersall, Sir Michael Peckham, the late Tim McElwain and the late B.J. Kennedy, I saw first-hand the evolution of management of germ cell malignancy. In my f...

Jessica Walkenhorst, Umberto De Giovannini, ∗ Alberto Castro, † and Angel Rubio 3, ‡ Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and ETSF Scientific Development Center, Departamento de Quimica, Universidad del Páıs Vasco UPV/EHU, Avenida de Tolosa 72, E-20018, San Sebastián, Spain§ ARAID Foundation Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza Mariano Esquillor Gomez s/n, ...

The Gilt-bronze seated Buddha at Sinamsa temple in Dangin has an uneven the shape gilt, poor gloss and cracks were damaged. Such damage to gold-gilding layer may degrade corrosion resistance of statue, thereby promoting metal compound. statue was a restoration 1980s, it highly likely that modern materials such as cashew used adhesive for gold-gilding. In study, conservation management plan prop...

Abstract Compared with other gold plating processes, mercury gilding was widely used in ancient China due to the less consumption of and excellent adhesion between layer substrate. Herein, comprehensive analyses silver crown boots unearthed from Consort Tombs Emperor Shengzong (圣宗萧贵妃) Liao (辽) Dynasty reveal surface composition structural characteristics also unique multilayered structure cross...

Two polychrome sculptures from the late Middle Age were investigated by means of non-invasive techniques with aim characterizing sophisticated relief decoration named “applied brocade”. Here, we have used portable instrumentation solely in order to perform X-ray powder diffraction and fluorescence measurements at surface sculptures. The results show a reliable localisation identification differ...

Tarnishing, corrosion and stress corrosion cracking (SeC) of gold alloys are related phenomena. They present problems when they occur in gold jewellery, dental gold alloys and electronic devices. They are exploited, however, in the depletion gilding and finishing of gold jewellery; and in the extraction, refining and fire assaying of gold. There is still much that is not known about these pheno...