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M Remy

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PubMed1987

Life events in the biography of French male and female alcoholics.

The fundamental research techniques used for stressful life events (i.e. questionnaires about main life events and rating of their consequences) were applied to study the biographies of 119 male and female alcoholics. Findings were compared with those of 60 non-alcoholics. The alcoholic sample was heterogenous with regard to age, sex and social and cultural level as well as with regard to the troubles induced by alcohol intake. However, despite the disparity, great homogeneity was seen in the representation of the biography of alcoholics. Most alcoholics attach great importance to events occurring during the first year of alcohol dependence (which seems to be rich in events, particularly negative ones) and alcoholism is the determinant factor in their weighting of events.

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Liming as an advanced treatment for sludge sanitisation: helminth eggs elimination--Ascaris eggs as model.

The presence of helminth eggs (Ascaris eggs) in sewage sludge may constitute a sanitary risk when used as agricultural fertiliser. Sanitisation of sewage sludge can be achieved by treatment with quick lime, a process that destroys sludge pathogens in two ways: pH increase and temperature rise. Among the pathogens of epidemiological relevance, Ascaris eggs are the most resistant to liming, and, hence, may serve as indicators of hygienic quality of biosolids. This research aims at defining, between 50 degrees C and 60 degrees C, the time required in the case of limed sludge to obtain a product with a negligible level of viable Ascaris eggs. To achieve this objective, investigations on inactivation kinetics of Ascaris eggs were conducted in the following products: contaminated milk of lime; naturally contaminated sludge treated with slaked lime and heat; naturally contaminated sludge treated with quick lime; and sludge treated at full scale with quick lime. For the inactivation kinetics where a negligible level of Ascaris eggs was reached, the inactivation threshold was determined. Depending on the experimental situation, the inactivation threshold period was found to fluctuate between 5 and 75 min at 55 degrees C and between 1 and 8 min at 60 degrees C.

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