background : some characteristics of lighting sources such as color properties and ultraviolet emissions have important roles on visual and non-visual health effects of lighting. this study aimed to investigate the light emissions of some compact fluorescent lamps (cfls) and incandescent lamps commercially available to the iranian consumers. methods: sixty lamps included 48 single envelope cfls...

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (LAMP-ELISA) and with lateral flow dipstick (LAMP-LFD) are rapid, sensitive and specific methods for the visual detection of clinical pathogens. In this study, LAMP-ELISA and LAMP-LFD were developed for the visual detection of canine parvovirus (CPV). For LAMP, a set of four primers (biotin-labeled for...

Taylorella equigenitalis is a causative bacterium of contagious equine metritis (CEM), and Taylorella asinigenitalis is species belonging to genus Taylorella. The authors developed two loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) methods, Te-LAMP and Ta-LAMP, for detecting T. equigenitalis and T. asinigenitalis, respectively. Using experimentally spiked samples, Te-LAMP was as sensitive as a p...

This paper presents a UV lithography method that utilizes a UV-LED (ultraviolet light-emitting diode) array as a micropatterning light source for high aspect ratio polymer microstructure fabrication. The sidewalls of commercial 5-mm-diamater UV-LEDs were coated with an opaque polymer to suppress the side propagation of UV light and to enhance UV collimation, resulting in a maximum flare angle o...

Known as the “pregnancy mask,” over six million Americans are impacted by hormonally induced melasma every year, making it one of the most common skin concerns in the United States. Affecting female patients in 90% of cases, melasma appears in large, dense patches of pigmentation, usually on the malar, mandibular and centrofacial areas of the face. Although melasma can affect anyone, it tends t...

We report four consecutive cases of photokeratitis that presented to the emergency department, interestingly after having watched the same theatre performance in the same school. The patients' ages (3 male, 1 female) ranged from 9 to 13 years. All patients presented with similar complaints consisting of pain, tearing, foreign body sensation, photophobia and blurred vision in both eyes. Patients...