Fabrication of a test strip for detection of benzoic acid was successfully implemented by immobilizing tyrosinase, phenol and 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolinone hydrazone (MBTH) onto filter paper using polystyrene as polymeric support. The sensing scheme was based on the decreasing intensity of the maroon colour of the test strip when introduced into benzoic acid solution. The test strip was characte...

Three methods of semiquantitative culture and two techniques of microscopy were compared with a surface viable count for the detection of significant bacteriuria in one thousand midstream specimens of urine. The results obtained with the blotting-paper-strip method on MacConkey agar and with Uricult dip-slides correlated well with the results of the surface viable count, and both methods were s...

Limited by the deficiency of the finite element method (FEM) to deal with infinite domain problems, the traditional FEM rolling model is not suitable enough to study the effect of the complex internal stress of the incoming strip on hot rolling deformation. To solve this problem, the finite element and infinite element (FE-IE) coupling method is adopted, where the finite element is for the roll...

A test with a commercially developed porphyrin test agar was examined for the identification of Haemophilus spp. The porphyrin test agar method was compared with the conventional paper strip satellite method in tests with 187 isolates and was found to be easier to perform and interpret, giving a sensitivity of 98.7% and specificity of 94.7%.

Background/Aims: Beta (β)thalassaemia is a public health problem in Malaysia. The carrier rate is estimated to be 4.5% by micro-mapping studies particularly among Malays who comprise 53.5% of the population in Malaysia (1). The common diagnostic method in Malaysia for mutation detection is by amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS). It allows single mutation detection in each reaction b...

A reusable enzyme strip for the determination of cholesterol was prepared by co-immobilizing cholesterol esterase (CEase), cholesterol oxidase (COD) and peroxidase (POD) onto alkylamine glass beads affixed on a plastic strip by a nonreactive fixative. The co-immobilized enzymes retained 71.42% of initial activity of free enzymes with a conjugation yield of 11.0 mg g beads and showed optimum act...

The chronic use of multiple medicinal drugs is growing, partly because individual patients’ drugs have not been adequately prescribed by primary care physicians. In order to reduce these polypharmacy problems, the Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing (STRIP) has been created. To facilitate physicians’ use of the STRIP method, the STRIP Assistant (STRIPA) has been developed. STRIP...

Matching is of great importance in photogrammetry and remote sensing and it is applied in many areas such as registration、DEM generation and so on. As a new type of airborne remote sensing sensor, Airborne LIDAR has gained much attention by photogrammetry and remote sensing communities. Many processing methods such as segmentation and clustering, filtering and classification, matching and strip...