The usage of actual reinforced thermoplastic composites for structural aircraft applications is very limited because materials with higher mechanical and physical properties are needed. In the recent years, aircraft manufacturers have requirements for new continuous fibre reinforced thermoplastic composites with a significant improved performance/costs ratio for new, structural aircraft applications. That is why a new affordable reinforced composite with a poly(phenylene sulphide sulphone) (PPSS) matrix, presenting high mechanical and thermal resistance properties, is introduced in this paper. Mechanical characterisations have been performed and microscopy analyses have also been achieved to control the internal structure of the composite. It was found that PPSS reinforced material has high mechanical and thermal properties, but low chemical resistance.

These findings clarify that the ABTs are not exclusive to anxiety disorders or high trait anxiety individuals, and could also arise in non-clinical individuals in a fearful context.

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Confocal fluorescence microscopy combined with differential interference contrast imaging of tissues from chagasic patients enabled the unequivocal identification of the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Using different monoclonal antibodies that indicate the parasite form and replication stage in conjunction with DNA labelling, specimens derived from distinct clinical forms of the disease were examined. Intracellular amastigote forms of the parasite were clearly detected in heart, brain, skin, lung, and kidney. Dividing amastigotes as well as trypomastigote forms were recognized in samples obtained from patients undergoing either acute-phase or some form of reactivation caused by immunosuppression.