The biophysical models that intend to predict the risk of decompression sickness after a change of pressure are not numerous. Few approaches focus in particular on joints as target tissues, with the aim to describe properly the mechanisms inducing pain. Nevertheless, for this type of decompression incidents, called articular bends, no model proved to fit the empirical results for a broad range ...

This paper proposes an efficient splitting algorithm to solve coupled liquid gas Darcy and free gas flows at the interface between a porous medium and a free-flow domain. This model is compared to the reduced model introduced in [6] using a 1D approximation of the gas free flow. For that purpose, the gas molar fraction diffusive flux at the interface in the free-flow domain is approximated by a...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate genetic damage as the frequency of sister chromatid exchanges and micronuclei in lymphocytes of peripheral blood of operating room personnel exposed to waste anaesthetic gases. METHODS Occupational exposure was measured with a direct reading instrument. Venous blood samples were drawn from 10 non-smokers working in the operating room and 10 non-smoking controls (matched...

Deposition of the gas fraction Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (SVOC) may be an important removal pathway and strongly influence concentrations organic aerosols due to gas-particle partitioning SVOC. All studies on this process are based classic Wesely resistance approach that uses Henry's law constants calculate a deposition rate scaled SO2. However, even highly hydrophobic SVOC could efficien...