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Scheme for Investigating Vehicle-Related Incident Scenes
Published in Paul T. Jayaprakash, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, 2023
Smears of paint are transferred to objects which come into contact with sufficient force with painted surfaces including those coated with oil-based paints. Such objects may include tools used on doors, etc., for gaining entry or any other object such as the bicycle carrier contacting the lorry bumper described in Case 16–2 before.
My Top Ten Ethical Pet Peeves
Published in Audrey Di Maria, Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Art Therapy, 2019
Consider using an open studio group format. Patients are free to come and go, usually based upon their attention span, but I provide music, circular (mandala) outlines, and other pages that provide the beginning lines of an image or a simple directive to help patients get started. Although many of these published or online sheets may be duplicated as needed, you can make your own. Also available are easily controlled materials such as markers, oil pastels, colored pencils, letter stencils, basic object/animal stencils, dot-a-dot paints, and paper. If insight-oriented art therapy groups are larger than they should be, I use concrete themes; those who prefer, and are able, to work more abstractly have that option. If there isn’t enough time to allow everyone to discuss and process their artwork, I may have to select a few volunteers.
Trigeminal autonomic cephalgias I – cluster headache: diagnosis and treatment
Published in Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Upton, Peter J. Goadsby, Headache in Clinical Practice, 2018
Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Upton, Peter J. Goadsby
Pharmacological treatment for cluster headache can be abortive (acute; Table 9.5), prophylactic (preventive; Table 9.6), or a combination of both methods. Acute treatment is directed at managing the individual attack. Preventive treatment is directed at controlling the frequency of attacks and is thus employed in both the episodic and chronic forms of the disorder. Patients should be instructed to avoid afternoon naps and alcoholic beverages, including wine and beer, since alcohol induces acute attacks during active cluster periods. They should be cautioned about prolonged exposure to volatile substances, such as solvents, gasoline, or oil-based paints, during cluster periods. Dietary influences, with the exception of alcohol, appear to have little importance in cluster headache. High altitude hypoxemia (levels above 5000 feet) may induce attacks during cluster periods. Cluster attacks due to high altitude may be prevented by oral administration of acetazolamide, 250 mg twice a day for 4 days, starting 2 days before the high altitude is reached.
Optimizing outcomes and managing adverse events in locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer: a clinical pharmacology perspective
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2023
Pratap Singh, Anand Rotte, Anthony A. Golsorkhi, Sandhya Girish
Smoking is the most common risk factor for BC accounting for nearly two-thirds of cases in men and one-third cases in women [9,10]. The risk of bladder cancer has been shown to be approximately 4-fold higher in smokers compared to those who have never smoked before [11], possibly because tobacco carcinogens are eliminated through urine and are likely stored in the bladder along with urine before elimination where they can affect the bladder [10]. Occupational exposure to chemicals used in paints, textiles, plastics, printers and rubber industries such as aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is the second most common risk for BC [9,10]. Infection with Schistosoma haematobium parasite more commonly seen in Africa and Middle East is another risk factor mainly for squamous cell carcinomas (nonurothelial BC) [12]. Inflammation of bladder due to chronic urinary tract infections, chronic use of urinary catheters and bladder stones are also known to be risk factors for BC [10]. Finally, exposure to radiation and/or chemotherapy as part of treatment for other malignancies or autoimmune diseases has also been shown to be a risk factor BC [9,10].
The Effect of Medium and Instruction While Creating Mandalas
Published in Art Therapy, 2022
Ashley Hartman, C. Estelle Campenni
According to the MDV, a continuum of art media ranging from resistive to fluid may be selected during art therapy interventions. Resistive media consists of pencils, crayons, and markers requiring pressure and resistance (Lusebrink, 2010). The use of resistive media impacts the kinesthetic, perceptual, and cognitive processes and can limit creative expression (Hinz, 2020; Lusebrink, 2010). Clients may focus more on planning and problem solving when creating with resistive media (Hinz, 2015). Resistive media are easy to control and encourage deliberate line and mark making. In contrast, fluid art materials include paints, chalk pastel, wet clay, or watercolor. According to Hinz (2015), fluid media may be more likely to promote ambiguous forms, meaningful symbols, and intuitive concepts (Kagin & Lusebrink, 1978; Lusebrink, 1990) that allow intense colors and evoke affective functioning. Fluid media evoke emotion whereas solid (resistive) media likely assists with internal organization and cognitive processes. During mandala creation, resistive media and fluid media can be utilized.
Degradable hyaluronic acid/chitosan polyelectrolyte multilayers with marine fouling-release properties
Published in Biofouling, 2020
Wenfa Yu, Robin Wanka, John A. Finlay, Jessica L. Clarke, Anthony S. Clare, Axel Rosenhahn
Fish protect themselves against the attachment of unwanted species and against infections by the use of mucus layers rich in glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins, and carboxylated and sulfated polysaccharides as a sacrificial top layer (Shephard 1994; Baum et al. 2003; Dash et al. 2018). Inspired by this, one AF strategy is to use non-toxic, degradable and erodible FR coatings composed of hydrolysable polymers (Lejars et al. 2013) showing controlled ablation rates in order to enhance their FR properties (Bressy et al. 2010; Lejars et al. 2013; Ma et al. 2013; Lejars et al. 2014; Gevaux et al. 2019; Xie et al. 2019). When in contact with seawater, such coatings can act as self-shedding coatings with sacrificial top layers that are removed along with attached living organisms that managed to stick to the FR coatings. The coatings thus enhance the performance of the paints. PEMs have been developed as degradable coatings using hydrolytically degradable polymers (Moskowitz et al. 2010) or using weak polyelectrolytes that lose their electrostatic attraction at extreme pH (Sukhishvili and Granick 2002; Yang and Rubner 2002; Wang et al. 2013) and in high salinity (Dubas and Schlenoff 2001; Schüler and Caruso 2001) environments. Such PEMs are well suited for applications such as controlled drug delivery (Schüler and Caruso 2001; Sukhishvili and Granick 2002; Moskowitz et al. 2010) and antibacterial coatings (Wang et al. 2013; Xu et al. 2018).