The wettability of solid surfaces is of fundamental scientific interest and related to many diverse chemical and physical phenomena at the heart of practical technologies. In particular, the hydrophilicity of the photocatalytically active metal-oxide TiO2 has attracted considerable attention for many applications. However, the intrinsic hydrophilicity of Ti-oxide surfaces is not fully understoo...

BACKGROUND Infectious disease interventions, such as vaccines and bed nets, have the potential to provide herd protection to non-recipients. Similarly, improved sanitation in one household may provide community-wide benefits if it reduces contamination in the shared environment. Sanitation at the household level is an important predictor of child growth, but less is known about the effect of sa...

The origin of meat products and any porcine contamination should be carefully analyzed for Halal certificaiton. Different methods are utilized for origin detection and of meat and meat products. Due to the sencitivity and selectivity, Real Time PCR is used widely in the area. In this method, even very small amounts of DNA can be determined. In this study, sausages from the most famous sausage b...

In order to ensure edible safety, more regard has been paid to pesticide contamination on agricultural product. Conventional techniques are used to measure pesticide contamination. However, the conventional analyses are not possible because of their destructive characteristic and the limitation of time and labor. Spectral technique can provide a rapid, nondestructive means to assess quality and...

A novel technique has been developed to build vessels for liquid xenon ionization detectors entirely out of ultra-clean fluoropolymer. We describe the advantages in terms of low radioactivity contamination, provide some details of the construction techniques, and show the energy resolution achieved with a prototype all-fluoropolymer ionization detector.

1. The diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria should be based on results of culture of a urine specimen collected in a manner that minimizes contamination (A-II) (table 1). • For asymptomatic women, bacteriuria is defined as 2 consecutive voided urine specimens with isolation of the same bacterial strain in quantitative counts 10 cfu/mL (B-II). • A single, clean-catch voided urine specimen with ...

A comparison of the invasion of flowers, aerial pegs, and kernels by wild-type and mutant strains of Aspergillusflavas or A. parasiticus along with aflatoxin analyses of kernels from different drought treatments have supported the hypothesis that preharvest contamination with aflatoxin originates mainly from the soil. Evidence in support of soil invasion as opposed to aerial invasion was the fo...

Dighe, Gronau and Rosner have shown that, by assuming SU(3) flavor symmetry and first-order SU(3) breaking, it is possible to extract the CP angles α and γ from measurements of the decay rates of B 0 d (t) → π + π − , B 0 d → π − K + and B + → π + K 0 , along with their charge-conjugate processes. We extend their analysis to include the SU(3)-related decays B 0 s → π + K − , B 0 s (t) → K + K −...

Mycotoxins are metabolites of moulds that may be found in food and feed of plant and animal origin. This paper gives a short review of the agronomical methods and food and feed storage recommendations for the prevention of mould contamination. It describes the practical methods of feed decontamination and the use of feed additives where mycotoxin contamination prevention has failed. However, th...

PURPOSE The contamination rates associated with the preparation of medium-risk i.v. admixtures in a traditional practice site and in a class 1000 cleanroom were compared. METHODS Simulated product media fills served as the samples. Each investigator, a pharmacist and a pharmacy technician, prepared 500 vials and 500 small-volume parenteral (SVP) bags in five separate runs at a traditional pra...