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Green walls show promise as active bio-filters to improve indoor air quality by removing both gaseous and particulate air pollutants. The current work represents a detailed assessment of airflow through an active green wall module. Airflow distribution through the module, the effect of wetting the substrate, and the effect of introducing a cover to the module's open top face were investigated, with the aim to improve the module's design and achieve more appropriate and effective airflow. Four cases of both planted and unplanted modules under both dry and wet conditions are considered. This work's primary observation is that more air will pass through a typical green wall substrate, and hence become cleansed, when the substrate is saturated wet more than when it is dry. The increase was substantial at approximately 50% more with 14.9 ± 0.2 L/s total air flow rate passing through the wet planted module versus 10 ± 0.2 L/s when dry. Reducing the 15.5 ± 0.75% of airflow passing through the module's open top face was found to be essential to maximize the bio-filtration capacity. Adding a top cover to the module having six 10 mm holes for irrigation decreased the airflow through the top by 6 ± 0.75%, and directed it through the filter increasing the percentage of air flow passing through the front openings from 79 ± 4% to 85 ± 4%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Objectives: Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) infection is high in heterosexual couples. We have evaluated clinically the frequency and the histological type of genital lesions in men whose partners have an HPV cervical and/or external genital lesion. Patients and methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study; we examined 246 men whose partner was referred for HPV lesions treatment of either the external genital tract or the cervix. All clinical HPV lesions detected in the men then underwent histological examination. Results: In 72% of cases, the couples were 18 to 35 years old. We detected HPV clinical lesions, confirmed histologically in 43% (106/246) of men. Warts and high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia were diagnosed in 83 (78%) and 23 (22%) of cases, respectively. The prevalence of clinical HPV lesions in men ranged from 34% in case of HG CIN to 80% when the female partner suffered from genital warts. Discussion and conclusions: The high frequency of clinical HPV lesions in men whose the partner has warts should lead to a peniscopy of the partner in these cases. Similarly, the peniscopy detects an HPV lesion in a third of men of which the partner gets a HG CIN. It is necessary to realize prospective studies to reevaluate the impact of diagnosing and treating male lesions with regard to the evolution of HG CIN in their partner. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

B Presenter: b Alexandra Acher MD | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health B Background: b The extent of liver resection in non-cirrhotic patients, excluding other underlying liver disease, is a future liver remnant to total liver volume ratio (FLR/TLV) > 20%. B Methods: b From 2011 to 2017, within this tertiary care university hospital, patients with non-cirrhotic post-hepatectomy portal hypertension despite adequate FLR/TLV were identified. B Results: b Out of the 137 major hepatectomies performed during this study period, 3 patients with non-cirrhotic post-hepatectomy portal hypertension were identified. [Extracted from the article]

• A detailed experimental setup is used to investigate the discharging process of PCM. • The aim is to investigate the temperature and humidity variations inside a room fitted with a windcatcher. • PCM shows promise as a passive cooling technique. This paper investigates experimentally the effect of the Phase Change Material (PCM) discharging process as a passive cooling technique on the performance of a two sided windcatcher fitted on an acrylic chamber with dimensions 1250 × 1000 × 750 mm3. Four different models with different locations of PCM are studied, and the results are compared with each other and with a fifth model with No PCM. PCM is integrated respectively at the walls of the chamber, its floor and ceiling and also within the windcatcher's inlet channel. Humidity, temperature and air velocity are monitored for each of the models studied. It is noted that with all the models containing PCM, the average humidity inside the chamber changed only slightly compared to the model with No PCM. The difference in humidity ranged between 0 and 3.88 % which indicates that the humidity variations are not significant. The model with the PCM located on the floor, ceiling and walls as well as in the windcatcher's inlet channel has shown the best performance, with a significant minimum reduction of average temperature in the chamber of about 2.75 °C (approximately 9.33 %) compared with the model with No PCM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]