Exposure to cigarette smoke is by far the most common causative factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Occupational exposure to fumes, chemicals, dusts and environmental pollution is also an important cause of chronic productive cough. Emphysema developing as a consequence of an occupational exposure is extremely rare. We describe the rare occurrence of severe emphysema in a non-smok...

Electroplating waste water is considered to be harmful to health of animals. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that electroplating waste water would suppress immune functions in Kunming mice. Twenty-six mice were randomly divided into the control group (n = 13) and the experimental group (n = 13), in which the latter drank electroplating waste water. We found that body mass and mos...

Large amounts of untreated waste water of baker’s yeast industry from the Sudanese fermentation industry (SFI) are discharged in two different forms; molasses waste (MW) and wastewater from all processing operations. The objectives of the present study were to determine the chemical and physical properties of the wastewater from (SFI). Part of these characteristics is considered as parameters f...

rocess and quality control are exP tremely important in achieving optimum production and they have a special place in continuously operating processes. Real-time process monitoring is the comerstone of maintaining an efficient electroplating process. For the steel industry, zinc and nickel electroplating processes used for anticorrosion treatmentl must be monitored to maintain certain standards...

Commercial CAD tools for MEMS have significantly contributed to the growth that the MEMS industry has experienced over the past two years by reducing development cycles and enabling the more rapid release of mature MEMS products. Unfortunately, the CAD for MEMS industry has focused primarily on device performance (for example, mechanical response due to electrostatic loading), with a concentrat...