BACKGROUND Although glasses and bottles are frequently used as weapons in assaults, there is little knowledge on which prevention strategies can be based. DESIGN Scrutiny of a random sample of 1288 criminal injury compensation applications. OBJECTIVE To identify predictors and relative severity of glass and bottle injury. METHOD Injury site, severity, treatment, and demographic characteri...

A multisurface glass roller bottle has been constructed for the growth of animal cells in culture. This bottle contains five concentrically placed glass cylinders that provide additional surfaces for the growth of animal cells. The bottle occupies the same space as a standard roller bottle, but it contains nine times the surface area of a standard bottle. L and HeLa cells can be grown in the bo...

ingestion of foreign bodies is common and conservative treatment can eliminated most particlesfrom the gastrointestinal tractunless peritoneal signs appear. a 22-year-old man presented to emergency department who had ingested glass particles of a crushed beverage bottle. he complained of epigastric and periumbilical pain. physical examination did not revealany peritoneal signs. abdominal x-ray ...

When looking at static visual images, people often exhibit mental animation, anticipating visual events that have not yet happened. But what determines when mental animation occurs? Measuring mental animation using localized brain function (visual motion processing in the middle temporal and middle superior temporal areas, MT+), we demonstrated that animating static pictures of objects is depen...

Kupipakwa Rasayanas are very popular and commonly prescribed preparations among the Ayurvedic physicians, and are looked upon as panacea. These are prepared in a specially designed glass bottle by gradual heating immersion in sand bath (Valuka Yantra). Particular chemical processes are involved in these preparations which also bear testimony to the great chemical knowledge prevailing in ancient...

The cleanliness of feeding bottles is vital for child health (1, 2). Because of versatile, light, sturdy, reusable, and cost-efficient, plastic bottles, rather than conventional glass bottles are increasingly being utilized in the reusable feeding bottles. Although the machine cleaning of bottles in the food industry has been established (3, 4), the results may not pertain to the cleaning condu...

ALLEN, J. and JONES, R., 1980 (31 v): Oyster Cove, archaeological traces of the last Tasmanians and notes on the criteria for the authentication of flaked glass artefacts. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm., 114: 225-233. ISSN 0080-4703. Depctrtment of Prehistory, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia. Stone, bottle glass and pottery artefacts occur at the Oyster Cove Aboriginal Sta...

A new, clear-plastic nonvented aerobic FA bottle, designed to prevent breakage, has been developed for the BacT/ALERT blood culture system. We assessed the new plastic FA bottle by comparing its performance with that of the current glass FA bottle for recovery of microorganisms and time to detection of growth in blood samples obtained for culture from adult patients with suspected bloodstream i...

The cleanliness of feeding bottles is vital for child health. Although machine cleansing of bottles in the food industry has been established, mechanical and manual cleansing methods are highly variable. This study was undertaken to determine the differences in the cleanliness of bottles that were cleaned using various combinations of bottle materials [glass and polypropylene (PP)], rinsing wat...