He received his Masters Degree from RWTH Aachen in 2007. His studies were funded by " DAAD-Siemens scholarship Asia 21 st century ". Hamad started his PhD in the March of 2008 under the PhD scholarship program of DAAD. His research interests include wireless sensor networks mainly focusing on modeling & simulation, protocol design, and link level optimizations. He is the lead developer of TimeT...

BACKGROUND Contamination of the conjunctiva in association with nasolacrimal duct obstruction is by all accounts a risk factor for infectious endophthalmitis post-cataract surgery. METHODS All patients who underwent cataract day surgery routinely received nasolacrimal duct syringing with normal saline at the Wakayama Medical University Hospital, Japan, from 2011 to 2013. The microorganisms is...

We have used a set of dedicated astrometric data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the parallax and proper motion of the nearby neutron star RX J0720.4−3125. At each of eight epochs over two years, we used the High Resolution Camera of the Advanced Camera for Surveys to measure the position of the B = 26.6 target to a precision of ∼ 2 mas (∼ 0.07 pix) relative to 22 other stars. From t...

The activated sludge process (ASP) is widely used to treat both domestic and industrial wastewaters. main disadvantage of the ASP expense disposing excess sludge, which can account for between fifty sixty percent operating costs a treatment plant. We examine model in biochemical processes are represented by simplified version well known No. 1. A promising method decrease production increase bio...

11027 Background: Some recent publications indicated that the use of G-CSF could be connected to an increase in CTC as well as elevated levels of tumor markers such as CA 27.29. In the SUCCESS Trial CTC and CA27.29 are examined before and after adjuvant chemotherapy (CHT) in 3754 breast cancer patients (pts). METHODS The SUCCESS Trial is a phase III trial comparing FEC-Docetaxel vs. FEC-Doc-G...

The paucity of old isolated accreting neutron stars in ROSAT observations is used to derive a lower limit on the mean velocity of neutron stars at birth. The secular evolution of the population is simulated following the paths of a statistical sample of stars for different values of the initial kick velocity, drawn from an isotropic Gaussian distribution with mean velocity 0 ≤ V ≤ 550 km s −1. ...

1 Preventable Tuberculosis Cases Arising from Contacts to Pulmonary Cases in New York City Holly Anger, Douglas Proops, Tiffany Harris, Shama Ahuja New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Rationale: Contacts to infectious tuberculosis (TB) patients are at high risk for TB disease. Contact screening for identification of latent TB infection (LTBI) and treatment of LTBI (TLTBI) are ...

The aerobic bacterial flora in the gut of turbot larvae and their influence on larval survival was examined. Two turbot experiments were run with six replicates each time. Large variation, from 0% up to 44%, was observed in the survival percentage of turbot larvae. There was no correlation between the number of bacteria present in the gut of turbot larvae and the larval survival rate. During bo...

INTRODUCTION The role of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) on disease progression in asthmatic children is not yet clear. AIMS This study was conducted (i) to determine how often ICS were used for treatment of obstructive airways disease (OAD) in early childhood; (ii) to assess if ICS treatment had an effect on lung function in young children with recurrent bronchial obstruction (rBO); (iii) to e...