Airborne methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was detected inside a swine facility that presented a risk of respiratory colonization and infection to swine and swine workers. Viable airborne MRSA was sampled using an Andersen cascade impactor, and total airborne particulates were sampled using an optical particle counter. The filter efficiency of the N95 filtering facepiece respir...

Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia intestinalis have been found in swimming pool filter backwash during outbreaks. To determine baseline prevalence, we sampled pools not associated with outbreaks and found that of 160 sampled pools, 13 (8.1%) were positive for 1 or both parasites; 10 (6.2%) for Giardia sp., 2 (1.2%) for Cryptosporidium spp., and 1 (0.6%) for both.

Overview A linear predictive filter (LPF) is a short vector of coefficients whose inner product with a fragment of a time-sampled signal predicts one or more points of the 10 signal’s future within some error. When the prediction horizon is short, the filter is interpolative and constitutes a recognizer or classifier of the signal [3, 5]. When the prediction horizon is longer, the filter is ext...

Battle-Lemarié’s wavelet has a nice generalization in a bivariate setting. This generalization is called bivariate box spline wavelets. The magnitude of the filters associated with the bivariate box spline wavelets is shown to converge to an ideal high-pass filter when the degree of the bivariate box spline functions increases to `. The passing and stopping bands of the ideal filter are depende...

In this paper, we propose a new family of perfect reconstruction (PR) complex filter banks, named interleaved discrete Fourier transform modulated filter banks (Interleaved DFT-FBs). In the filter banks, the analysis filters are generated by interlaced exponential modulating two different analysis prototype filters, and the synthesis filters are generated by two different synthesis prototype fi...