The Impact of Surgical Wound Dehiscence on Body Image.

Objective: To identify changes in body image in patients with surgical wound dehiscence.

Design And Setting: This cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical study was conducted in a university hospital and nursing care center in Brazil.

Patients And Intervention: Sixty-one adult surgical patients of both genders from different inpatient wards or receiving outpatient care were selected.

Differential effects of acetophenone on shoots' and roots' metabolism of Solanum nigrum L. plants and implications in its phytoremediation.

The wide ranges of uses for acetophenone make it more available and expected to accumulate in the biosphere, where consequently it can threat ecosystems. To remediate this problem, the use of Solanum nigrum L. plants for the clean-up of acetophenone-contaminated sites was explored.

Chemical, physical, structural and morphological characterization of the electric arc furnace dust.

Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) is a hazardous industrial waste generated in the collection of particulate material during steelmaking process via electric arc furnace. Important elements to the industry such as, Fe and Zn are the main ones in EAFD. Due to their presence, it becomes very important to know how these elements are combined before studying new technologies for its processing.