Introduction / objectives Introduction: unit-targeted, and informal educational interventions were included in several studies. The focus of the interventions was to encourage the behaviors change through improved understanding of the problem of multi drug resistant organisms (MDRO). Whether the desire change involved hand hygiene, or other outcomes, enhancing understanding and creating a cultu...

St. Peter's Residence at Chedoke in Hamilton, Ontario, a 210-bed long-term care facility, is building the capacity of front-line employees to become engaged in quality improvement. With training and tools, teams made up of front-line and other staff are becoming engaged in creating a quality improvement culture. This innovative initiative was recently featured in Promising Practices in Research...

St. Joseph's Community Hospital of West Bend, a member of SynergyHealth, recognized the opportunity to improve patient safety through facility design. An independent, nonprofit, 80-bed acute hospital located in West Bend, WI, St. Joseph's Community Hospital is in the unique position of deciding to relocate and build a new hospital rather than remodel an existing facility. Sparked by the 1999 In...

Fixed-bed reactors have gained growing attention for the cultivation of mammalian cells. They allow for a low shear stress cultivation of adherent and non-adherent cells due to the immobilization of cells within macroporous carriers. Their potential has been demonstrated for many cell culture purposes. Some of the recent developments are presented in this review, including improved antibody pro...

Wounds may fail to heal because tension, infection, hematoma or seroma formation, ischemia, molestation, pressure, motion, foreign materials, neoplasia, drugs (corticosteroids, neoplasia), radiation, severe malnutrition, or underlying metabolic disease. When wounds fail to heal, the veterinarian should examine and treat the animal for underlying disease, culture a punch biopsy of the wound to e...

anaerobic treatment methods are more suitable for the treatment of concentrated wastewater streams, offer lower operating costs, the production of usable biogas product. the aim of this study was to investigate the performance of an anaerobic fluidized bed reactor (afbr)-aerobic moving bed bio reactor (mbbr) in series arrangement to treat currant wastewater.the bed materials of afbr were cylind...

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This study contributes to the improvement of low-cost biotechnology for wastewater treatment in constructed wetlands (CWs). Constructed wetlands are energy efficient engineered systems that mimic the treatment processes of natural wetlands, removing polluting organic matter, nutrients, and pathogens from water. The aim of this study was to investigate the advisability of the inoculation of hori...

The hydrodynamic studies of fluidized bed reactor has been reported in terms of pressure drop, minimum fluidization velocity and bed volume expansion to contribute to the optimization of the CNTs production parameters in fluidized bed reactors. Minimum fluidization velocity and pressure drop, as the most important parameters, were taken into account for the investigation of the hydrodynamic beh...

knowledge of airflow resistance is an important consideration in designing an appro-priate ventilation system and for proper fan selection. an airflow resistance device was designed and fabricated to measure the airflow resistance of potatoes. the device the composed of an air compressor, a rotameter, a cylindrical bin to contain the potatoes and an inclined u-tube manometer. airflow resistance...