Lung tumours of non small cell pathology were cultured by clonogenic assay in several media. Culture was successful in spleen conditioned medium, but only 57% grew and low plating efficiencies (PE) meant that only 23% of the original number produced significant drug results. Comparison of rat erythrocyte lysate (REL) medium with serum free defined medium (HITES) and HITES+10% FBS demonstrated c...

gobies, which obtain most of their food via cleaning. Some obligate cleaners, such as L. bicolor and L. phthirophagus, mostly eat fish mucus and so are not considered as cooperative as the rest. But even the supposedly very cooperative ones, like L. dimidiatus, will eat mucus when they can get it. Most cleaner fish, however, are facultative cleaners which means they do not rely solely on cleani...

introduction: cleaner productions in textile industry is achieved by reducing water and chemicals’ consumption, saving energy, reducing production of air pollution and solid wastes, reducing toxicity and noise pollution through many solutions. the purpose of the present research was to apply strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (swot) and quality systems planning matrix (qspm) techniqu...

this study was conducted to identify emission characteristics of certain hazardous substancescontained in the plastic of used home electrical and electronic appliances keeping in view compliance with therestriction of hazardous substances (rohs) directive and to estimate the possibility of safe recyclingpractices. according to the results, the concentration of cadmium, lead, mercury and chromiu...

Cleaner Production (CP) is a preventive environmental management approach aimed at reducing pollution at source. Despite the success stories, the literature indicates barriers that hamper the implementation and dissemination of CP in companies. Among these barriers are the lacks of detailed and systematized information on practices that generate results and can be applied in CP implementation p...

Images are increasingly used for AI-based diagnosis and analysis of many diseases like cervical cancer, mouth glucose from retina etc. In cases, data collection is done by specialised camera modules which capture images affected areas. As with any other sources data, this process also error-prone may contain unwanted objects regions that require cleaning removing them. Outliers in these kinds d...

The cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus often touches 'client' reef fish dorsal fin areas with its pelvic and pectoral fins. The relative spatial positions of cleaner and client remain constant and the cleaner's head points away from the client's body. Therefore, this behaviour is not compatible with foraging and the removal of client ectoparasites. As clients seek such 'tactile stimulation', i...

Benchmarking cleaner production performance is an effective way of pollution control and emission reduction in coal-fired power industry. A benchmarking method using two-stage super-efficiency data envelopment analysis for coal-fired power plants is proposed – firstly, to improve the cleaner production performance of DEA-inefficient or weakly DEA-efficient plants, then to select the benchmark f...

The applicability of biological market theory with its emphasis on partner choice is explored using the interactions between the cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus and its ‘client’ reef fish as a model system of mutualism. The cleaners have small territories, which the majority of reef fish species actively visit to invite inspection of their surface, gills and mouth. Clients benefit from the ...

Efficient removal of biofilms from medical devices is a big challenge in health care to avoid hospital-acquired infections, especially from delicate devices like flexible endoscopes, which cannot be reprocessed using harsh chemicals or high temperatures. Therefore, milder solutions such as enzymatic cleaners have to be used, which need to be carefully developed to ensure efficacious performance...