The goal of this experiment is to evaluate the effectiveness of different leachate pre-treatment options in terms of COD and ammonia removal. This research focused on the evaluation of physical-chemical methods for pre-treatment of leachate that would be effective and rapid in order to satisfy the requirements of the sewer discharge by-laws. The four pre-treatment options evaluated were: air st...

BACKGROUND One of the most frequent reasons for failure of haemodialysis lines is catheter blockage caused by fibrin sheath formation. We report our experience of percutaneous fibrin sheath stripping in treating this problem. METHODS A consecutive series of failing haemodialysis catheters underwent percutaneous fibrin sheath stripping in an attempt to retrieve and prolong the life of the cath...

The preparation of highly pure vanadyl sulfate from sulfate solutions containing impurities of iron and aluminumwas investigated by solvent extraction with 2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid mono-2-ethylhexyl ester (EHEHPA) and tri-n-butyl phosphate (TBP) as the phase modifier. The extraction and stripping conditions of vanadium (IV) and its separation from iron and aluminum were optimized. Under the...

This paper presents an unsupervised approach for the development of a stemmer (For the case of Urdu & Marathi language). Especially, during last few years, a wide range of information in Indian regional languages has been made available on web in the form of e-data. But the access to these data repositories is very low because the efficient search engines/retrieval systems supporting these lang...

We investigate the role of ram pressure stripping in the Virgo cluster using N-body simulations. Radial orbits within the Virgo cluster's gravitational potential are modeled and analyzed with respect to ram pressure stripping. The N-body model consists of 10 000 gas cloud complexes which can have inelastic collisions. Ram pressure is modeled as an additional acceleration on the clouds located a...

A novel stripping chemiluminescence (CL) method in situ has been developed which is a combination of selective stripping and CL detection in situ. This method consists of a concentration (pre-electrolysis) step, in which the analyte metal ion is reduced at a controlled potential whilst being deposited as the metal on a solid electrode placed in an electrogenerated chemiluminescence flow cell, a...

The aim of this study was to compare the results of high ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein (GSV) trunk combined with foam sclerotherapy with conventional surgery for the treatment of superficial venous varicosities of the lower extremity. One hundred and thirty eight patients with primary or secondary superficial venous varicosities of the lower extremity were included. 60 unde...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of bacteremia associated with an orthodontic stripping procedure. METHODS The study included 29 orthodontic patients (mean age, 18.2 ± 3.4 years). We used a standardized stripping procedure: a perforated stripping disk with a contra-angle hand piece was used at a low speed (<15,000 rpm; 10 seconds) on the mandibular anterior te...