background and objectives: the microbiological monitoring of the water used for haemodialysis is important especially for legionella and non-fermentative bacteria since patients with end stage renal disease (esrd) are suffering from deteriorated function of immune system. materials and methods: a total 50 water and dialysate samples were weekly collected over a period of 10 weeks from 5 sites. ...

1 Prerequisites. The clinical service provider should obtain confirmation from the endoscope washer-disinfector (EWD) manufacturer that all endoscopes intended to be used can be reprocessed in the EWD. 2 Installation qualification. This can be performed by different parties but national guidelines should define who has the responsibilities, taking into account legal requirements. 3 Operational ...

Though nursing education and training have been widely studied, how to encourage nursing staff to supervise nursing students receives relatively less attention. We aim to partially fill this gap by investigating factors affecting nursing staff’s willingness to supervise nursing students. Eleven factors on general qualification merits and seven factors on teaching merits and preferences are cons...

in order to investigate the microbiological safety of sanitary tissues made of recycled scrap papers in iran, random samples were taken for one year with the cooperation of the iranian standard and industrial research institute (karaj unit), of 44 types of sanitary tissues, two samples of each type including tissues, toilet papers and dippers as well as a control sample and their probable conta...

background mycoplasma synoviae is an important avian pathogen which can cause both respiratory disease and synovial joint inflammation (synovitis) in poultry. mycoplasmas spp. may cause the respiratory system infection in ostriches with symptoms such as inflammation of the nose, trachea and also damages of lungs. objectives the current study aimed to use the m. synoviae specific polymerase chai...

We consider a manufacturer using a Request For Quotes reverse auction in combination with supplier qualification screening to determine which qualified supplier will be awarded a contract. Supplier qualification screening is costly for the manufacturer, for example involving reference checks, financial audits, and on-site visits. The manufacturer seeks to minimize its total procurement costs, i...

Excellent book is always being the best friend for spending little time in your office, night time, bus, and everywhere. It will be a good way to just look, open, and read the book while in that time. As known, experience and skill don't always come with the much money to acquire them. Reading this book with the PDF statistical procedures for machine and process qualification will let you know ...

Qualification that a leader should satisfy in managing nonprofit organization (NPO) is revealed by integrating the analysis of questionnaire survey and mailing list archives. Questionnaire survey is applied to 104 members in dot-jp, the specific nonprofit organization in Japan. Mailing list archives are analyzed by applying the IDM (Influence Diffusion Model) that measures the influential and i...

Soccer is one of the most popular sports in the world with millions of fans that usually raise interesting questions when the competition is partially completed. One interesting question relates to the elimination problem which consists in checking at some stage of the competition if a team i still has a theoretical chance to become the champion. Some other interesting problems from literature ...

A fellow of my acquaintance, on seeing a colleague drink undiluted water (55.5 molal), has been known to comment in disapproval that water at such a concentration should not be used for that purpose and that its main function is for putting around the outside of boats. He conceded that dilution with a little salt is acceptable for boats but for no other purpose. The proponent of this philosophy...