It is estimated that approximately 1.1 billion people globally drink unsafe water. We previously reported both a novel copper-alginate bead, which quickly reduces pathogen loading in waste streams and the incorporation of these beads into a novel swirl flow bioreactor (SFB), of low capital and running costs and of simple construction from commercially available plumbing pipes and fittings. The ...

The nutcracker syndrome (NCS) is a rare cause of haematuria. It embraces an extended nonpathognomonic spectrum of symptoms that imply a difficult diagnosis. Ultimately it may be associated with substantial morbidity and even life-threatening events. We report a rare cause if a 12-year-old boy who presented with a history of frequent intermittent episodes of painless constant haematuria. The cys...

PURPOSE To examine the incidence and appearance of the communicating vein between the left renal vein (LRV) and the left ascending lumbar vein (LALV) on abdominal CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the appearance of the communicating vein on contrast-enhanced CT obtained by multidetector-row CT (MDCT) scanner. One hundred patients without known abnormality in this region were randomly chos...

Storage area networks, remote backup storage systems, and similar information systems frequently modify stored data with updates from new versions. In these systems, it is desirable for the data to not only be compressed but to also be easily modified during updates. A malleable coding scheme considers both compression efficiency and ease of alteration, promoting some form of reuse or recycling...

Software mechanisms that enforce QoS guarantees often require knowledge of platform capacity and resource demand. This requirement calls for performance measurements and profiling upon platform upgrades, failures, or new installations. The cost of performing such measurements is a significant hurdle to the wide-spread deployment of open QoS-aware software components. In this paper, we introduce...

UNLABELLED Patients who underwent local radiotherapy during surgical resection for cholangiocarcinoma are at increased risk of developing extensive thrombosis of splanchnic vessels and secondary biliary cirrhosis on the remnant liver; hence they become liver transplantation candidates. In these recipients, adequate graft inflow cannot be provided by conventional liver transplantation procedures...

Software mechanisms that enforce QoS guarantees often require knowledge of platform capacity and resource demand. This requirement calls for performance measurements and prooling upon platform upgrades, failures, or new installations. The cost of performing such measurements is a signiicant hurdle to the widespread deployment of open QoS-aware software components. In this paper, we introduce a ...

The recently discovered contamination of oral rotavirus vaccines led to exposure of millions of infants to porcine circovirus (PCV). PCV was not detected by conventional virus screening tests. Regulatory agencies expect exclusion of adventitious viruses from biological products. Therefore, methods for inactivation/removal of viruses have to be implemented as an additional safety barrier wheneve...