Animal bone charcoal (ABC) produced from animal bones was used as adsorbent to remove Cr(VI) from its aqueous solution . Labority experimental investigation was carried out to identify the effect of contact of time, pH, adsorbent dose and initial concentration on the adsorption of chromium from metal solution. Results showed that pH 2 was the most suitable, while the removal of Cr(VI) ions with...

Three parties, Alice, Bob and Eve, know the sequences of ran-generated by a discrete memoryless source according to some probability distribution P XY Z. Motivated by Wyner's and Csiszz ar and KK orner's pioneering definition of, and work on, the secrecy capacity of a broadcast channel, the secret key rate of P XY Z was deened by Maurer as the maximal rate M=N at which Alice and Bob can generat...

We present a numerical study of the lattice Landau gluon and ghost propagators in three-dimensional pure SU(2) gauge theory. Data have been obtained using asymmetric lattices (V = 20×60, 40×60, 8 × 64, 8 × 140, 12 × 140 and 16 × 140) for the lattice coupling β = 3.4, in the scaling region. We find that the gluon (respectively ghost) propagator is suppressed (respec. enhanced) at small momenta i...

PURPOSE This study was designed to explore the characteristics and therapy of cytomegalovirus retinitis (CR) in patients diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). METHODS A total of 67 AIDS patients (78 eyes) with CR findings of were collected from January 2009 to January 2013. The correlation between CR, cellular immunity, risk factor, clinical characteristics, treatment and ...

Epithermal neutron activation analysis (ENAA) has been applied to study elemental composition of Cr(VI)-reducer bacteria isolated from polluted basalts from the Republic of Georgia. Cr(VI)-reducing ability of the bacteria was examined by electron spin resonance, demonstrating that the bacteria differ in their rates of Cr(VI) reduction. A well-pronounced correlation between the ability of the ba...

The dyad of hypertension and coronary artery disease is prevalent; however, data on systolic blood pressure (SBP) control and long-term all-cause mortality are lacking. Using extended follow-up data from the US cohort of the International Verapamil (SR)/Trandolapril Study (mean 11.6 years), subjects were categorized by age at enrollment (50 to <60 and ≥60 years). Cox proportional adjusted hazar...

OBJECTIVE Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is pivotal in preventing recurring events of myocardial infarction (MI). This study aims to investigate the effect of a smartphone-based home service delivery (Care Assessment Platform) of CR (CAP-CR) on CR use and health outcomes compared with a traditional, centre-based programme (TCR) in post-MI patients. METHODS In this unblinded randomised controlled...

BACKGROUND Current results of autologous bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) suggest that this procedure may prolong disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). MATERIALS AND METHODS Over the last ten years, 29 AML patients received unpurged autologous bone marrow (BM) after a conditioning regimen including Ara-C (3 g/m2/12h, days -9, -8), CTX (60 mg/kg/day, days...