THE FIRST ALBERTA RECORD FOR CHEIRA CANTHIUM INCLUSUM (HENTZ) (ARANEIDA: CLUBIONIDAE), WITH OBSERVATIONS ON A HUMAN BITE REACTION

1994 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Leech ◽  
Thomas Maxwell Brown

On 27 May 1993, a normal, healthy woman in her early 30s put packages of groceries just purchased on the car seat beside her. As she sat in the driver's seat, she “…felt something painful sticking into her behind her knee.” She looked and saw something there, brushed it, but when it did not come off, she grabbed it into a soft tissue paper, and folded the paper over so the animal could not escape. She went immediately for medical assistance.The second author, a physician, examined the animal and thought it to be a dead spider, as he could not prod it into moving (many clubionids “play dead”). However, when he put it into alcohol, it writhed violently for a few moments before dying. He sent it to the Department of Entomology, University of Alberta. The spider was determined to be a female of Cheiracanthium inclusum (Hentz, 1847), a first record for Alberta, and only the second record for Canada.

2004 ◽  
Vol 62 (3b) ◽  
pp. 873-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Tulius T. Silva ◽  
André Land Curi

Microspheres of polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) are exciting new soft-tissue fillers that are becoming increasing popular for facial rejuvenation. Some reports of side effects of this procedure are basically in respect to dermal reaction, with late-onset granulomatous lesion with giant cells and vacuoles. We report blindness and total ophthalmoplegia after PMMA injection into glabellar area in a healthy woman and review the literature.


2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 866-870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellie J. C. Goldstein ◽  
Diane M. Citron ◽  
C. Vreni Merriam ◽  
Yumi A. Warren ◽  
Kerin L. Tyrrell ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT BMS-284756, a new des-fluoro(6) quinolone, was very active against 240 aerobic and 180 anaerobic isolates from bite victims. It inhibited 403 of 420 (96%) isolates, including those of Moraxella spp., CDC group EF-4, and Eikenella corrodens at ≤2 μg/ml and those of all Pasteurella spp. and Bergeyella zoohelcum at ≤0.015 μg/ml. Fusobacterium russii and 6 of 11 Fusobacterium nucleatum isolates of animal bite origin were resistant, but isolates of human bite origin were susceptible, which suggests that they were of a different subspecies.


Author(s):  
Muhammad S. Waliullah ◽  
Yong X. Gan ◽  
Ann D. Chen ◽  
Ryan N. Gan

Electrohydrodynamic processing including electrospinning and electrospraying is suitable for depositing controllable structures in fiber or film form. In this work, the electrohydrodynamic approach was used to prepare poly(vinylidene fluoride)/polyaniline composite film. Scanning electron microscopic analysis was performed to show the morphology of the film on soft tissue paper. Self-poling of the film was found due to the high voltage application in the electrohydrodynamic process. The addition of polyaniline into PVDF improves the conductivity of the film significantly. Mechanoelectrical response of the film was demonstrated by measuring the open circuit voltage of the specimens under bending. The peak voltage generated is over 1.2 V due to the bending deformation of the film. The film has ultrafast response to the deformation. It is concluded that the film has multiple functions for mechanoelectrical energy conversion, vibration sensing, and structural integrity monitoring applications.


2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Fahajumi Jumaah ◽  
Mohd Zikrillah Zawahir ◽  
Fazlul Rahman Mohd Yunus ◽  
Ruzairi Abdul Rahim ◽  
Nor Muzakkir Nor Ayob ◽  
...  

In this paper we use an electronic component to produce light which is applied in testing soft tissue penetration. We used bio tissue, a slice of apple, and non-bio tissue, paper. The voltage could be adjusted to brighten the light to view the penetration of the subject. The thickness of the tissue was constant and the results showed that the current and voltage were significant as the light penetrated the soft tissue. 


Author(s):  
Eva Andersson ◽  
Gerd Sällsten ◽  
Susanna Lohman ◽  
Richard Neitzel ◽  
Kjell Torén

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Neitzel ◽  
Marianne Andersson ◽  
Susanna Lohman ◽  
Gerd Sällsten ◽  
Kjell Torén ◽  
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