Certain types of DNA lesions, produced through cellular metabolic processes and also by external environmental stresses, are responsible for the induction of mutations as well as of cancer. Most of these lesions can be eliminated by DNA repair enzymes, and cells carrying the remaining DNA lesions are subjected to apoptosis. The persistence of damaged bases in RNA can cause errors in gene expres...

Hand hygiene has been shown to be effective in significantly reducing hospital acquired infections for many years. However it is difficult to maintain and enhance compliance with hand hygiene guidelines. In Hong Kong, we previously reported a strategy to counter campaign fatigue from 50%-55% in 2009-11 to 83% in 2012. Here we report a creative activity that we used to sustain and enhance hand h...

We analyze mechanisms of moral disengagement used to eliminate moral consequences by industries whose products or production practices are harmful to human health. Moral disengagement removes the restraint of self-censure from harmful practices. Moral self-sanctions can be selectively disengaged from harmful activities by investing them with socially worthy purposes, sanitizing and exonerating ...

A cotton textile dried with various hygroscopic salts then contaminated with Staphylococcus epidermidis and dried again, showed remarkable reduction in viable bacterial cells. Of the salts investigated, sodium acetate was found to have the greatest antibacterial effect. Calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate, also showed some antibacterial effect. For sodium acetate, drying ...

STEM education has been a vital educational trend in the world. Over past few years, Vietnam this approach practiced widely K-12 to facilitate school students participation experiential activities and apply knowledge create products or solve practical problems. In article, we briefly introduce 5E model design organize topic of "dry hand sanitizing" grade-11 organic chemistry. We performed pedag...

Distributed association rule mining is an integral part of data mining that extracts useful information hidden in distributed data sources. As local frequent itemsets are globalized from data sources, sensitive information about individual data sources needs high protection. Different privacy preserving data mining approaches for distributed environment have been proposed but in the existing ap...