The main objective of this study is to investigate the personal or area exposure of organic solvents during paint stripping and paint spraying. Three aircraft paint stripping/spraying workplaces in Taiwan were selected, and the Council of Labor Affairs and NIOSH recommended sampling/analytical methods used in this study. Activated charcoal tubes were used to investigate the personal and area ex...

While paint systems have been around for a long time, systems capable of capturing the complex behavior of paint media like watercolor, gouache, Oriental ink, oil and acrylic paint have emerged only recently. However, concentrating on the simulation of paint and brush mechanics, these applications mostly provide just a minimal set of instruments assisting users in creating artwork. We report on...

Maintenance of old homes can be an extremely hazardous activity if improperly done. For example, lead poisoning can arise from exposure to lead-based paint chips as well as dust produced during prep work for repainting. In this issue, researchers led by Howard W. Mielke of Xavier University of Louisiana attempt to broaden the discussion by looking at a variety of metals existing in old paint be...

We introduce a novel approximation method for multiobjective optimization problems called PAINT–SiCon. The method can construct consistent parametric representations of Pareto sets, especially for nonconvex problems, by interpolating between nondominated solutions of a given sampling both in the decision and objective space. The proposed method is especially advantageous in computationally expe...

Fourier transform-infrared microspectroscopy (micro-FT-IR) operated in attenuated-total-reflectance (ATR) and transmission modes following stereomicroscopy was used for the purpose of matching known and questioned paint samples in a fatal hit-and-run case. A tiny, thin and smeared dot of red paint sticking on the broken-off cross section of a side-mirror rod was taken from the victim motorcycle...

In this paper, we report a study about the application of packaged fiber Bragg gratings used as strain sensors to monitor the stress kinetics during the drying process of commercial latex paints. Three stages of drying with distinct mechanical deformation and temporal behaviors were identified for the samples, with mechanical deformation from 15 μm to 21 μm in the longitudinal film dimension on...

In past years, it was known that paint on reflector surfaces causes degradation of antenna gain and noise temperatures, but it was not known how much degradation occurs as a function of paint and primer thickness or frequency. This article presents an approach used to study the properties of paint by first measuring the complex dielectric constants of paint and primers at frequencies of interes...

OBJECTIVE To estimate whether a new preoperative skin preparation protocol decreases postcesarean delivery infectious complications. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study. A povidone-iodine (13%) scrub followed by povidone-iodine (10%) paint (SCRUB+PAINT) protocol was compared with standard paint alone (PAINT). Patients and outcomes were identified using diagnosis-related group an...

Lead-based paint is an important cause of lead poisoning. This report describes our observation of excessive lead absorption among employees in a paint factory in which lead naphthenate and lead oxalate were used as drying agents in paint. In this study, blood levels of lead were compared between nineteen paint factory employees and twenty normal controls. The nineteen paint factory employ...