To the Editor—Contamination prevention of blood products is a challenge in transfusion practice. Contamination can occur at any point in the transfusion chain, including collection, processing, storage, issue, and administration. The objective of this communication is to describe strategies for preventing transfusion transmitted infections (TTIs) as practiced in a blood bank in a 167-bed oncolo...

A newly developed oligonucleotide array suited for multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of Staphylococcus aureus strains was analyzed with two strain collections in a two-center study. MLST allele identification for the first strain collection fully agreed with conventional strain typing. Analysis of strains from the second collection revealed that chip-defined MLST was concordant with conventiona...

A total of 45 voucher specimens falcons which are deposited in the bird's collection Iraq Natural History Research Center and Museum (INHM) were reviewed. Mummified preserved as study tagged with museum labels. In current study, morphometrics six species genus Falco Linnaeus, 1758: Lanner falcon F. biarmicus Temminck, 1825; Sacker Falcon cherrug Gray, 1834; Lesser Kestrel naumanni Fleischer, 18...

From 24.07.05 to 29.07.05, the Dagstuhl Seminar 05301 Exact Algorithms and Fixed-Parameter Tractability was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. This is a collection of abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar.

The resonant modes associated with engineered photonic structures of different spatial-dimension are essential to obtain bright on-demand single photon sources for quantum technologies. Negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV-) center in diamond is proposed as an excellent single-photon source at room temperature. possible optical readout spin states makes it a good candidate the spin-photon in...

We consider the problem of sensor data collection in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The geographic deployment of sensors is random, with an irregular network topology. We propose a data collection scheme for the WSN, based on the concept of the center of the graph in graph theory. The purpose of the scheme is to use less power in the process of data collection. Because it is mostly true that ...

Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized collection of power system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews.

Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized collection of rack system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews.