Simple and Eco-Friendly Route from Agro-Food Waste to Water Pollutants Removal.

The current study reflects the demand to mitigate the environmental issues caused by the waste from the agriculture and food industry. The crops that do not meet the supply chain requirements and waste from their processing are overfilling landfills. The mentioned wastes contain cellulose, which is the most abundant carbon precursor.

Arteriovenous malformation presenting as traumatic subdural hematoma: A case report.

Background: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are congenital aberrant connections between afferent arteries and draining veins with no intervening capillary bed or neural parenchyma. Other than seizures, the most common initial presentation of AVM is hemorrhage, which is typically intraparenchymal, subarachnoid, or intraventricular, and very rarely subdural.

Case Description: This patient is a 66-year-old male with a history of atrial fibrillation, chronically anticoagulated with apixaban, who presented through emergency services after a fall.

Hot deformation behaviour of bimodal sized Al O /Al nanocomposites fabricated by spark plasma sintering.

The deformation behaviour of bimodal sized Al O /Al nanocomposites were investigated by hot compression tests conducted in the temperature range 350-500°C and strain rates of 0.001, 0.01 and 0.

Endovascular Management of Intracranial Vertebral Artery Dissection: Technical Nuances for the Preservation of Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery and Basilar Artery.

Background: The treatment of intracranial vertebral artery dissection (VAD) can be challenging.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical presentation, endovascular treatment techniques, and prognostic outcome of patients diagnosed with intracranial VAD at our institution.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 35 patients who were diagnosed with VAD at our institution over 17-yr period (2001-2017) is presented.

Ethical and medicolegal aspects in the management of neurosurgical emergencies among Jehovah's Witnesses: Clinical implications and review.

When an incapacitated Jehovah's Witness neurologically deteriorates and requires immediate craniectomy, institutional protocols may delay surgery if the patient's refusal of blood products is ambiguous. We are among the first to describe such an ethically contentious case in emergency neurosurgery, review the morbidity of operative delays, discuss medicolegal concerns raised, and provide a detailed guide to hemostasis in patients who refuse blood products. We discuss the case of a 46-year-old woman presented with nausea, vomiting, and right-sided weakness, progressing to stupor over several hours.

Neurosurgical and Scalp Reconstructive Challenges During Craniotomy in the Setting of Cutis Verticis Gyrata.

Background: Cutis verticis gyrata (CVG) is a rare condition of the scalp in which thickening of the dermis induces rigid folds and furrows resembling the cerebral cortex. Two forms of primary CVG exist: essential, in which CVG is the only presenting problem, and nonessential, in which the scalp condition occurs along with neuropsychiatric ailments. CVG can also occur secondary to a variety of causes including inflammatory, neoplastic, and metabolic conditions or drug use.

Influence of CNTs decomposition during reactive friction-stir processing of an Al-Mg alloy on the correlation between microstructural characteristics and microtextural components.

Multipass friction-stir processing was employed to uniformly disperse multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MW-CNTs) within an Al-Mg alloy metal matrix. Decomposition of MW-CNTs occurs in situ as a result of solid-state chemical reactions, forming fullerene (C60) and aluminium carbide (Al C ) phases during reactive high temperature severe plastic processing. The effects of this decomposition on the microstructural features, dynamic restoration mechanisms and crystallographic microtextural developments are studied for the first time by using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis.

Electron backscattered diffraction analysis of friction stir processed nanocomposites produced via spark plasma sintering.

In the present study, Spark Plasma Sintered (SPSed) aluminium matrix composites were severely deformed through Friction stir processing (FSP). Pure aluminium powders and bimodal sized Al O particles (80 nm and 25 μm) were firstly mixed by ball milling and then consolidated by spark plasma sintering. The effect of the heat input as well the bimodal particle size of the alumina on the materials' microstructure and texture development was evaluated by electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis.

EBSD investigation of Al/(Al Fe +Al O ) nanocomposites fabricated by mechanical milling and friction stir processing.

The application of ball-milling for reactant powders (Fe O +Al) to form in situ nanosized reaction products in the stir zone of 1050 aluminium alloy was examined and the evolution of microstructure, grain boundaries and microtexture of the fabricated Al/(Al Fe +Al O ) nanocomposite was investigated. The mean matrix grain size of the fabricated nanocomposites by the combination of ball milling and friction stir processing were found to be ∼3.2, 3.

Alteration in lipid composition of plasma membranes of sensitive and resistant Guerin carcinoma cells due to the action of free and liposomal form of cisplatin.

Aim: To study in vivo changes of lipid composition of plasma membranes of sensitive and resistant to cisplatin Guerin carcinoma cells under influence of free and liposomal cisplatin forms.

Materials And Methods: The isolation of plasma membranes from parental (sensitive) and resistant to cisplatin Guerin carcinoma cells was by differential ultracentrifugation in sucrose density gradient. Lipids were detected by method of thin-layer chromatography.

Label-free detection of glycoproteins by the lectin biosensor down to attomolar level using gold nanoparticles.

We present here an ultrasensitive electrochemical biosensor based on a lectin biorecognition capable to detect concentrations of glycoproteins down to attomolar (aM) level by investigation of changes in the charge transfer resistance (Rct) using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). On polycrystalline gold modified by an aminoalkanethiol linker layer, gold nanoparticles were attached. A Sambucus nigra agglutinin was covalently immobilised on a mixed self-assembled monolayer formed on gold nanoparticles and finally, the biosensor surface was blocked by poly(vinyl alcohol).

Biodistribution analysis of cisplatin in liposomal form in animals with cisplatin-resistant and cisplatin-sensitive carcinoma.

Aim: To analyze the relation between pharmacokinetics of cisplatin in liposomal form and antitumor efficacy toward cisplatin-resistant and cisplatin-sensitive variants of Guerin carcinoma.

Methods: Concentration of platinum was measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry (C115M1 "Selmi", Ukraine). Elimination constant was calculated based on the dynamics of cisplatin concentration in time period between 1 h to 24 h using nonlinear regression analysis.

Sister chromatid exchanges and micronuclei in peripheral lymphocytes of shoe factory workers exposed to solvents.

We examined sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) and micronuclei (MN; cytokinesis-block method) in cultured peripheral lymphocytes from 52 female workers of two shoe factories and from 36 unexposed age- and sex-matched referents. The factory workers showed an elevated level of urinary hippuric acid, a biomarker of toluene exposure, and workplace air contained high concentrations of various organic solvents such as toluene, gasoline, acetone, and (in one of the plants only) ethylacetate and methylenediphenyl diisocyanate. The shoe factory workers showed a statistically significant higher frequency of micronucleated binucleate lymphocytes in comparison with the referents.

Genotoxicity and radioresistance in electroplating workers exposed to chromium.

A biomonitoring study was carried out to investigate the genetic risk associated to occupational exposure to chromium. The induction of genetic damage was measured by analysing the frequency of micronuclei (MN) in peripheral blood lymphocytes. In addition to the 40 electroplater exposed workers who participated in the study, a group constituted by 18 volunteer donors, without exposure to chromium, was analysed as a control group.

Evaluation of DNA damage by the Comet assay in shoe workers exposed to toluene and other organic solvents.

The alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis (or Comet) assay was applied to evaluate DNA damage in cryopreserved peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes from 34 female shoe workers exposed to organic solvents and a group of 19 non-exposed women. We also investigated whether the polymorphisms of glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) and T1 (GSTT1) genes affect individual level of DNA damage possibly induced by the solvent exposure. Chemical measurements of workplace air in the two factories studied showed that the workers were exposed to acetone, gasoline, and toluene in both factories and to ethylacetate and diisocyanate in one factory.

Immune mechanisms of the occupational sensitization with methylen-dyphenyl diisocyanate (MDI).

The aim of this study was to objectify and to clarity some mechanisms of the immune response of the professional sensitization with MDI. 26 workers were tested for sensitization of immediate type (ST with a broad set of indoor allergens and serum MDI-IgE) and of delayed type (ST with a standard battery of antigens for cellular immunity and with MDI), also the lymphocyte sub-populations and their functional state by flow cytometric analysis. The most frequent allergic complaints were: rhinits (70%), skin manifestations (53%), conjunctivitis (35%) and initial bronchial asthma in two cases (12%).

[Occupational sensitization to methylene diphenyl diisocyanate during the manufacture of polyurethane products].

A complex occupational hygienic and clinical allergologic investigation in a methylene-diphenyl diizocyanate (MDI)-based polyurethane products manufacture was carried out for the first time in this country. The average MDI concentrations for a shift are within the limits of TWA, but during short operations exceed STEL and reach 0.072-0.

[The assessment of the occupational risk for skin diseases in workers at the Storgoziia Plant, Pleven].

A dermatological examination is performed on 95 workers (43 men and 52 women). In order to differentiate the type of contact dermatitis in connection with the expert examination of the skin changes in 20 workers was carried out epicutaneous test by specialized series PVH dust (pure), PVH--dust, containing dyes, by titanium oxide, with lead stearat and with paraloid, which is on acrylic base--all in concentrations 2% in carrier oil. It is established that in 26.

[Occupational hygiene in industrial assembly work].

Data on occupational hygienic characteristics of industrial-assembly work are reported, which have not been subject upto now to such studies. Complex hygienic evaluation of the basic physical and chemical factors of the working environment is performed as well as physiological and ergonomic characteristics of the principle professional groups, analysis of the occupational diseases and diseases with temporary disability and clinic and laboratory examinations on the workers. The following peculiarities of occupational hygienic aspect are established: 1.

[Biochemical liver studies of workers in ethylenediamine production].

Studies are performed on 44 workers, engaged in the production of ethylenediamine. The principle chemical noxae are: ammonia, ethylenediamine, dichloroethane, analogues of ethylenediamine, vinylchloride, sodium hydrate etc. The average concentrations of these compounds surpass the admissible norms for the air of the working environment.