background and objectives: hand hygiene is a crucial measure for preventing healthcare-related infections. surgical scrub is an important factor in the safety and success of a surgical operation. the aim of this study was to comparatively evaluate effectiveness of some conventional surgical antiseptic solutions, and to identify the most effective one. methods: effectiveness of alcohol-based sol...

background: natural organic matter is the cause of many problems associated with water treatment such as the presence of disinfection by-products (dbps) and membrane fouling during water filtration. in this study, the performance of the peroxi-electrocoagulation process (pep) was investigated for the removal of humic acids (has) from aqueous solutions. methods: pep was carried out for the remov...

an adsorbent was developed from matured leaves of the aloe barbadensis miller plant for removing pb(ii) from aqueous solutions. adsorption was carried out in a batch process with several different concentrations of pb(ii) by varying amount of adsorbent, ph, agitation time and temperature. the uptake of the metal was initially very fast, but gradually slowed down indicating penetration into the ...

‎in this paper‎, ‎we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative solutions of a boundary value problem for a fractional order differential equation‎. ‎by applying kranoselskii`s fixed--point theorem in a cone‎, ‎first we prove the existence of solutions of an auxiliary bvp formulated by truncating the response function‎. ‎then the arzela--ascoli theorem is used to take $c^1$ ...

the present study was carried out to investigate the potential of carboxylate group functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (mwcnt−cooh) adsorbent for the removal of methyl orange (mo) textile dye from aqueous solutions. the effects of ph, shaking time and temperature on adsorption capacity were studied; the contact time to obtain equilibrium at 298 ˚k was fixed at 25 min. the effect of te...

objective: antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles have recently come into the spotlight in endodontic therapy. this study was conducted aiming at comparing the antimicrobial activity of a new irrigation solution containing nanosilver particles with that of sodium hypochlorite and chlorhexidine against escherichia coli, enterococcus faecalis, pseudomonas aeruginosa and candida albicans...

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a very eective method to evaluate the relative eciency of decision-making units (DMUs). DEA models divided all DMUs in two categories: ecient and inecientDMUs, and don't able to discriminant between ecient DMUs. On the other hand, the observedvalues of the input and output data in real-life problems are sometimes imprecise or vague, suchas interval data, ordinal da...