The knock-down, mortality and 'irritancy' effects of three synthetic repellents (DEET, IR3535 and KBR 3023) on Aedes aegypti (L) (Diptera: Culicidae) were evaluated in the laboratory in the absence of animal bait. Filter paper tests were carried out to assess the knock-down effect (KDt(50) and KDt(95)) and mortality (LC(50) and LC(95)) induced by each repellent. 'Irritancy' tests were carried o...

Recently, vector-borne diseases have been resurging in endemic areas and expanding their geographic range into nonendemic areas. Such changes have refocused attention to the potential for major public health events, as naive populations are exposed to these pathogens. Personal topical repellents, recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organi...

Homogeneously distributed zinc nanoparticles (NPs) on the glass substrate were investigated for the transmittance, mechanical durability, and antibacterial effect. The buffered Ti NPs between Zn NPs and glass substrate were studied for an enhancement of the transmittance and mechanical endurance. The Ti NPs buffered Zn NPs showed a high transmittance of approximately 91.5% (at a wavelength of 5...

Changes in intrinsic optical signals could be related to cell swelling; however, the evidence is not compelling. We measured light transmittance, ECS volume fraction (alpha), and extracellular K+ in rat spinal cord slices during electrical stimulation and the application of elevated potassium, NMDA, or anisoosmotic solutions. Dorsal root stimulation (10 Hz/1 min) induced an elevation in extrace...

An experimental setup and procedure for accurate transmittance measurements of candidate filters for the Auger Fluorescence Detector is presented. For this check, we used the Hitachi U-2000 double-beam spectrophotometer (Sph) of the Chemical Department of the University of Athens (UoA). After the calibration of the Sph, we are able to observe transmittance deviations over the area of the filter...

In this paper the transmittance of metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides containing semi-circular ring shaped and rectangular ring shaped grooves are investigated. By varying groove parameters their effects on the transmittance of the MIM waveguides are investigated. The results show that the transmittance spectra of the waveguides have maximum and minimum points, and by using appropriate para...

Transmittance spectra of fungi were estimated from seven-band optical micrographs. An optical microscope adjusted with a single-chip CCD camera with seven band filters was used for image acquisition. The Wiener method was applied to estimate the transmittance spectra of five species that belong to one genus of fungi. The Wiener estimation operator was calculated from transmittance spectra of 16...

Nanopowders of strontium fluoroapatite Sr5(PO4)3F (SFAP) were synthesized using a co-precipitation method with different starting compounds. Based on the data XRD, BET and SEM measurements, nitrate-derived powders chosen as least agglomerated. The SFAP hot pressed at 1000 °C to ceramic samples transmittance up 82% in mid-IR region. designed approach was adopted prepare 2 mol % Er-doped ceramics...

In this study, we coated the surface of glass slides with nanoprotrusion, nanoparticles, and nanofilm structures by one-step plasma deposition three vinyl monomers. Three functional monomers symmetrical polarity sites were used: methyl methacrylate (MMA), trifluoro methylmethacrylate (TFMA), trimethylsilyl (TSMA). The TSMA/MMA (80/20, mol-%) nanoprotrusion-coated slide was superhydrophobic, a 1...