Metal

• Collaborate across value chains: Develop initiatives and partnerships that halt and reverse nature loss throughout supply and distribution chains.
• Rohitesh Dhawan, President and CEO, ICMM announced the nature commitments at a Nature Positive Initiative event in Davos today, commenting: "The mining industry owes its very existence to nature.
• Marco Lambertini, Convenor of the Nature Positive Initiative, said: "Today's commitment from the mining sector to contribute to a nature-positive future is welcome.
• Action on nature is an integral part of ICMM's Mining Principles, representing our member companies' comprehensive commitment to a responsible mining and metals industry.

• The global Cargo Inspection market is set for continued growth, with projections indicating a climb from its current valuation of US$2.8 Billion to US$3.9 Billion by the year 2030.
• This growth trajectory, representing a steady CAGR of 4.1% during the period 2022-2030, highlights the increasing necessity of meticulous cargo inspection across diverse industries.
• However, China is capturing attention with a forecasted 6.2% CAGR leading to an $820 Million market by 2030, underscoring the nation's economic influence and the importance of cargo inspection services therein.
• The findings and analyses presented in this overview underscore the vital role of the Cargo Inspection market in facilitating safe and compliant goods transfer across international borders.

• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) Protocol: A Game Changer in Detoxification
  MDLifespan's innovative TPE protocol, now patent-pending, promises a groundbreaking approach to reducing body toxicity.
• Heavy Metals: Reductions ranging from 25-100% across various metals, including aluminum, mercury, and lead.
• Reducing heavy metals can improve brain and heart health, help kidneys work better, and lower the risk of weak bones.
• Toxins can damage organs, DNA, and cell membranes, alter gene expression, disrupt hormonal balance, and impede the body's natural detoxification processes.

• But the imprint your finger leaves on the surface of the button is actually a 3D structure called a fingermark.
• A 2D fingerprint neglects the depth of the fingermark, including pores and scars buried in the ridges of fingers that are difficult to see.
• I’m an educator and scientist who studies holography, a field of research that focuses on how to display 3D information.

Fingermark types

• Patent fingermarks are the most visible type – bloody fingerprints at crime scenes are one example.
• Plastic fingermarks are found on soft surfaces, such as clay, Play-Doh or chocolate bars.
• Cyanoacrylate makes super glue in its liquid form, but as a gas it can make latent fingermarks visible.

Finally, Level 3 features, such as pores, scars and creases, are too small for the human eye to resolve. This is where optical techniques like holography come in handy, since optical wavelengths are in the order of microns, small enough to make out small details on an object.

Developing fingermark holograms

• Since fingermarks are usually collected as 2D pictures, and holograms display 3D information, my team wanted to develop a technique that can show all the 3D topological characteristics of a fingermark.
• Columnar thin films are dense pillars of glassy material that uniformly cover the fingermark, like a dense growth of identical trees in a forest.

• To make a hologram of something like a 3D fingermark, researchers split light from a laser into two parts.
• One part, called the reference wave, shines directly on a digital camera.
• The other wave shines on the object, in this case the fingermark.

Picking up fingermarks

• In 2017, our collaboration reported our first results, where we made 3D pictures of latent fingermarks using the CTF technique.
• We recorded holograms of the CTF-developed fingermarks with two different wavelengths of light – green and blue – generated from a laser.
• The Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab in Dayton, Ohio, has graded the quality of the fingermarks captured by Lakhtakia’s research group.

Partha Banerjee’s Holography and Metamaterials (HaM) Lab has used Digital Holography for many applications funded by DARPA, Air Force and Army. The current joint work on fingermarks is supported by a grant from the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA) Center of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).