The purpose of this essay is to use the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assessment to identity the needs of a patient called Ernest (pseudonim). Ernest is a 74 years old man who was admitted in hospital with “off legs” due to infection. He has Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and haemodialyses three times a week. He has been diagnosed with dementia which makes him sometimes confused, although he has been able to live on his own at home with the assistance of his two daughters. After three weeks in
2.4.1 Magnesium Properties Figure 2.7 shows the properties of magnesium based on physical, mechanical and chemical properties. Magnesium element is strong, ductile and light- weight metal. It is malleable when heated and react slowly in cold water. The chemical properties are it is highly flammable metal and high chemical reactivity (Boccaccini & Gough, 2007). Figure 2.7: The characteristic of magnesium Table 2.4: Physical properties of pure magnesium (International Magnesium Association, 1943)
1.1 Introduction Dental Caries is a bacterially based disease that progresses when acid produced by bacterial action on dietary fermentable carbohydrates diffuses into the tooth and dissolves the carbonated hydroxyapatite mineral resulting in demineralization. 1 Caries management historically has focused only on the removal of cavitated carious tissue and restoration of the tooth. In modern era, clinicians rely on their vision, dental instruments, and radiography as diagnostic tools but these conventional
SURFACE MODIFICATION ON THE STEM OF A TOTAL HIP JOINT REPLACEMENT INTRODUCTION Titanium and its alloys are used in various applications due to their desirable properties. One of the main sectors where titanium is highly used is in biomedical applications where both implants and tools for surgery make use of this element due to its biocompatibility, low modulus and excellent corrosion resistance. However titanium shows poor tribological properties and therefore it is generally alloyed and undergoes
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION This chapter mainly explains about the problem statement or identification. It also highlights the objectives and the significance of the study, recovery of polymeric material from Leucaena leucocephala peel. According to the global perspective, some plants are wildly grown in the forest. Every plant has its own functions and uniqueness. For the local scenario, some plants are also easy to grow and can produce in abundance numbers of production. The productions may worth
activated by citric acid. Sodium chlorite is an very good oxidizing agent wh... ... middle of paper ... ...mperature stable and visible light active oxygen rich anatase phase titanium dioxide[77].In this method hydrogen peroxide was added to amorphous titanium dioxide to form peroxo titania complex. The band gap of the resulting titania decreased as the molar ratio of the hydrogen peroxide was increased (figure 5). The band gap narrowing was identified as factor responsible for the visible light
FOOD PACKAGING Introduction Packaging is the enclosing of products inside another physical material like plastic, glass, metal, etc. that provides a physical barrier over the products. Packaging is now a thriving industry where, over 50% of the materials produced are used for packing of food products. Apart from being a physical barrier, it provides protection, makes the product more attractive to the consumers, makes storage, transportation and distribution easier, provides information such as