A laboratory experiment was conducted with bean seeds kept in three different containers viz. tin pot, poly bag and jute bag and stored at room temperature and RH for three months in the Laboratory of Agronomy Department, Sher-eBangla Agricultural University to study their storage behavior, germination percentage and quality. The seed of jute bag came to the contact with air and their moisture ...

1 Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, 2 KNUST School of Medical Sciences, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, 3 Kenya Medical Research Institute, Centre for Microbiology Research, Nairobi, Kenya, 4 Neglected Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases Unit, DG Research, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 5 Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), KIT Bi...

Extensive DM contamination was found on Dacron bags that were incubated for prolonged periods of time in the rumen of steers fed alfalfa hay. The ash content of the contaminant was high, and most of it was acid-soluble X-ray analysis indicated the presence of hydroxylapatite and synthetic calcium magnesium phosphate or whitlockite. The contaminant appeared as a smooth coating on the Dacron fibe...

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada (RMRB) Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, 7701 Rondebosch, Republic of South Africa (RMRB, DSJ, CTH, RMB) Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada (RMB) Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria...

Air medical transport of patients suffering of highly infectious diseases is typically performed employing portable isolation chambers. Although the likelihood of decompression flight emergencies is low, sustainability of the devices used is crucial. When a standard isolation unit was subjected to an explosive cabin decompression of 493 hPa, simulating a 32808 ft flight level accident, leak tig...

In this paper we present the methods and techniques performed by the IPL Group for the concept detection task of ImageCLEF 2017. A probabilistic k-nearest neighbor approach was used for automatically detecting multiple concepts in medical images. The visual representation of images was based on the well known, bag of visual words and bag-of-colors models. Detection performance was further enhan...

Three recent publications have let the cat out of bag. They are “Stop Congratulating Colleagues for Publishing in High Impact-Factor Journals,” “Who real parasite publishers and journals? What prevents all medical data from being open access time?” “Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free.”[1] [2] [3]

Intravenous drip infusion is a common method of administering medication. However, it is difficult for a nurse to continuously monitor the administration since it can take more than one hour. It is difficult to instantly detect problems such as removal of a drip infusion administration set by a patient or an empty bag. We propose an intravenous drip infusion monitoring system equipped with body...

We compared results obtained with a commercial immunoradiometric assay kit for human thyrotropin in which monoclonal antibodies are used (Tandem -R TSH (ONE STEP) ImmunoRadioMetricAssay; Hybritech Inc.) with those obtained with two commercial radioimmunoassay methods: GAMMA-DAB [125I]HS-hTSH RIA (Clinical Assays) and Thyro-SHure TSH Diagnostic Kit (Nuclear Medical Laboratories). The correlation...