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      Analysis of expired air of fasting male monks at Mount Athos 

      Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Agapiou, Agapios; Georgiadou, A. (2006)
      Expired air chemical analysis is investigated as a search and locate method for the early detection of entrapped people under the ruins of collapsed buildings after an earthquake. Fasting individuals were examined as a ...
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      A study of volatile organic compounds evolved in urban waste disposal bins 

      Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Agapiou, Agapios; Pallis, George C. (2005)
      Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) evolved in urban waste disposal bins in different situations were studied. Waste of various loads (full, empty, partially filled bins), remained uncollected in the containers for variable ...
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      Trace detection of endogenous human volatile organic compounds for search, rescue and emergency applications 

      Agapiou, Agapios; Amann, Anton; Mochalski, Paweł; Statheropoulos, Miltiades K.; Thomas, Charles Lawrence Paul (2015)
      Since Pauling's paper in the 1970s, interest has increased in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released from different bio-fluids, such as blood and urine. A number of VOCs reflect internal biochemical pathways occurring ...