T h e paint industry makes a variety of products that preserve, protect and enhance the objects to which they are applied. Although the post-consumer residuals of these products are usually labeled non-hazardous, they have often been termed “environmentally unfriendly” as has the industry responsible for creating them. With 1,400 manufacturing plants and an output of more than 1.1 billion gallo...

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...

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...

Statistical analysis of abstract paintings is becoming an increasingly important tool for understanding the creative process of visual artists. We present a multifractal analysis of 'poured' paintings from the Abstract Expressionism and Les Automatistes movements. The box-counting dimension (D 0) is measured for the analyzed paintings, as is the associated multifractal depth DD¼D 0 À D N , wher...

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...

The water-based paints now frequently used for house painting still contain small amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), with the potential to exacerbate symptoms of asthma. Because of these potential problems and environmental concerns, some manufacturers have produced paints with no VOC content. We wished to compare the effects on asthmatics of conventional water-based paint and the ne...