Biosorption is becoming a promising alternative to replace or supplement the present dye removal processes from dye wastewaters. Based on the results of batch studies on biosorption of the dyes on powdered fungal biomass, Aspergillus niger, an immobilised fungal biomass was used in column studies for removal of four dyes, Acid Blue 29, Basic Blue 9, Congo Red and Disperse Red 1 from aqueous sol...

AIMS Conventional fundus imaging using a fundus camera produces colour fundus pictures. The scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) has the advantages of lower levels of light exposure, improved contrast, and direct digital imaging but until now has produced monochromatic images as a laser of single wavelength is used. True representation of the fundus is possible by combining images taken using bl...

Multiphoton microscopy of cells and subcellular structures labeled with fluorescent proteins is the state-of-the-art technology for longitudinal imaging studies in tissues and living animals. Successful analysis of separate cell populations or signaling events by intravital microscopy requires optimal pairing of multiphoton excitation wavelengths with spectrally distinct fluorescent proteins. W...

Low-level laser irradiation of visible light had been introduced as a medical treatment already more than 40 years ago, but its medical application still remains controversial. Laser stimulation of acupuncture points has also been introduced, and mast-cells degranulation has been suggested. Activation of TRPV ion channels may be involved in the degranulation. Here, we investigated whether TRPV1...

Given n red and n blue points in the plane and a planar straight line matching between the red and the blue points, the matching can be extended into a bipartite planar straight line spanning tree. That is, any red-blue planar matching can be completed into a crossing-free red-blue spanning tree. Such a tree can be constructed in O(n log n) time. keywords: geometric graph, spanning tree, color

this paper reports application of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (ctab) coated magnetite nanoparticles (fe3o4 nps) as a novel adsorbent for removal of two types of disperse dyes, including disperse red 167, and disperse blue 183, from wastewater of textile companies. the effect of parameters including type of surfactant, ph of solution, surfactant concentration, and amount of salt, was investig...

results it was found that in all studied wavelengths with or without methylene blue (mb), the level of all studied enzymes decreased remarkably when compared to dark controls. it was observed that the synthesis level of sod, glutathione peroxidase gp, and glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase g-6-pd in e. coli decreased significantly in red light with respect to white, blue, and green light in seaw...

Digital still cameras use a single charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor array and a color filter array (CFA) to sample a full-color image. Thus, the measured image is an interleaving of the subsampled red, green, and blue images. The red and blue images are sampled at a lower rate, so if standard interpolation techniques are used, the reconstructed red and blue images will be missing some highfre...

Recent experimentswith 100 terawatt-class, sub-50 femtosecond laser pulses show that electrons self-injected into a laser-driven electron density bubble can be accelerated above 0.5 gigaelectronvolt energy in a sub-centimetrelength rarefied plasma. To reach this energy range, electrons must ultimately outrun the bubble and exit the accelerating phase; this, however, does not ensure high beam qu...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the capability of soft laser light to penetrate blood, serum, gingival connective tissue and pure collagen type I. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 1:1 mixture of methylene blue (MB) and diphenylisobenzofuran (DPBF) was irradiated for 60 s with a diode laser (670 nm, 0.3 W) through blood, serum, gingival connective tissue and collagen type I (2 mm transillumination thickness). Th...