BACKGROUND Despite improvement in safety of plasma transfusion some virus transmission still remains a problem. So as World Health Organization (WHO) recommends, many countries developed Pathogen Reduction Technologies (PRT) to inactivate pathogens, in plasma components. The Methylene Blue (MB) based methods is one of the most universal one. The purpose of this research was, produce a device th...

We describe a new adaptive multiwindow Gabor expansion, which dynamically adapts the windows to the signal’s features in time-frequency space. The adaptation is based upon local time-frequency sparsity criteria, and also yields as by-product an expansion of the signal into layers corresponding to different windows. As an illustration, we show that simply using two different windows with differe...

We study the relative computational power of logspace reduction models. In particular , we study the relationships between one-way and two-way oracle tapes, resetting of the oracle head, and blanking of the oracle tape. We show that oracle models letting information persist between queries can be quite powerful, even if the information is not readable by the querying machine. We show that logsp...

To prevent Ebola transmission, frequent handwashing is recommended in Ebola Treatment Units and communities. However, little is known about which handwashing protocol is most efficacious. We evaluated six handwashing protocols (soap and water, alcohol-based hand sanitizer (ABHS), and 0.05% sodium dichloroisocyanurate, high-test hypochlorite, and stabilized and non-stabilized sodium hypochlorite...

The antibacterial activities of stem bark ethanolic extract of Erythrina caffra Thunb. against bacteria in diarrhoea was determined in vitro by the agar diffusion and dilution, macrobroth dilution, and time-kill assay methods. The result showed that the extract produced inhibition zones ranging between 15 ± 1.0 mm and 23 ± 1.0 mm, and the bacteria were susceptible at concentrations ranging betw...

pomegranate fruit is a rich source of bioactive compounds. the serious concern over unprocessed fruit juices is microbial contamination, which effectively inactivated by thermal processing, but it significantly affects juice functional compounds. therefore, the effect of gamma irradiation and ultrasonic on inoculated microbial to pomegranate juices was studied.two pomegranate cultivars were pur...

in this study,the effect of ozonated water(0.2, 0.5, and 1 ppm) with different exposure times (5,10, and 15 min) for control of staphylococcus aureus , escherichia coli and total counts in poultry carcass, on chiller water in slaughter house were investigated. for this purpose, control samples passed chiller water(without ozone) for (5,10, and 15 min) .other examples also treated (5, 10 , and 1...

introduction: the a im of this study is the evaluation of the effect of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy with radachlorin on staphylococcus aureus and escherichia coli. new windows are open in the antimicrobial field so-call photodynamic therapy that incorporates a nonpoisonous photosensitizer (ps) with innocuous special wavelength photons to excite the ps. methods: two strains of bacteria us...