Novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) was first detected in Wuhan, China, soon its rapid escalation global and become spread of infection including Malaysia. The principal cases Malaysia were distinguished on 25th January 2020. number keeps ascending since March 2020 until has the highest Southeast Asia. Therefore, to respond control COVID-19 pandemic country, Movement Control Order (MCO) is i...

Eucalyptus trees may translocate Au from mineral deposits and support the use of vegetation (biogeochemical) sampling in mineral exploration, particularly where thick sediments dominate. However, biogeochemistry has not been routinely adopted partly because biotic mechanisms of Au migration are poorly understood. For example, although Au has been previously measured in plant samples, there has ...

We assessed short-term ecological and potential human health effects of wastewater treatment plant (WTP) effluent by measuring delta 15N per thousand and microbial concentrations in oysters and suspended particulate matter (SPM). We also tested male-specific bacteriophage (MSB) as an alternative to fecal coliforms, to assess potential influence of wastewater contamination on shellfish. WTP effl...

Particulate surface contamination is one of the major causes of low yields in the semiconductor and other affected industries. The theory of low frequency (ultrasonic) and high frequency (megasonic) cleaning will be presented. Ultrasonic cleaning (less than 100 kHz) is relevant to cleaning of optics and precision parts. Megasonic cleaning (0.8 to 1.2 MHz) is used in semiconductor manufacturing....

Sampling zooplankton is a useful strategy for observing trace hydrocarbon concentrations in water because samples represent an integrated average over a considerable effective sampling volume and are more representative of the sampled environment than discretely collected water samples. We demonstrate this method in Port Valdez, Alaska, an approximately 100 km(2) basin that receives about 0.5-2...

A xanthate reagent mixer at a gold mine concentrator was exposed to carbon disulphide by extensive skin contamination with xanthate powder and solution during the reagent mixing process. Absorption of carbon disulphide was confirmed by the detection of urinary 2-thiothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (TTCA). Drager colorimetric tube testing during subsequent mixing recorded a maximum concentration ...

The importance of semiconductor wafer fabrication has been increasing steadily over the past decade. Wafer fabrication is the most technologically complex and capital intensive phase in semiconductor manufacturing. It involves the processing of wafers of silicon in order to build up layers and patterns of metal and wafer material. Many operations have to be performed in a clean room environment...

Seven or eight penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) were detected in Bacillus subtilis membranes. By introducing covalent affinity chromatography employing cephalosporins as ligands, milligram amounts of three high molecular weight PBPs (PBP 1 ab, M, = 120,000; PBP 2b, M, = 94,000; and PBP 4, M, = 78,000) were obtained without any contamination of the major PBP 5, the D-alanine carboxypeptidase. ...

− The particulate contamination of intravenously administered fluid has been of major concern. One of the most common complications associated with long term i.v. therapy is post-infusion phlebitis (PIP). We undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of inline filters on PIP. An electronic search of Medline, KoreaMed, and KRIST was conducted to identify randomized controlled ...

Particulate fractions of rat brain catalyze the hydrolysis of radiochemically pure monogalactosyl and digalactosyl diglycerides, which had been synthesized in vifro by enzymes derived from rat brain or spinach chloroplasts. Monogalactosyl-U-W diglyceride (the galactose being uniformly labeled) yields W-galactose when incubated with the mitochondrial fraction of brain at the optimum pH of 4.4 (g...