Current enterprise drive sanitization techniques employ little or no intelligence to determine if the area being sanitized, with data overwriting, actually contains sensitive resident data. All data blocks in the target area are sanitized, utilizing bruteforce sanitization techniques of one to several wipe passes. In reality, a significant number of drives needing sanitization may contain areas...

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We propose a simple geometrical approach for finding the robustness of entanglement for Bell decomposable states of 2 ⊗ 2 quantum systems. It is shown that the robustness of entanglement is equal to the concurrence. We also present an analytical expression for two separable states that wipe out all entanglement of these states. Finally the random robustness of these states is also obtained.

The experimental results concerning the electric field gradient and the local magnetic field around substitutional impurities in copper-based dilute alloys have been summarized. Comparing the experimental data with theoretical models we have come to the conclusion that only the first-order quadrupole wipe-out number characteristic of the asymptotic charge density oscillation around the impuriti...

The use of antineoplastic drugs in health care steadily increases. Health care workers can be occupationally exposed to antineoplastic drugs classified as carcinogenic or teratogenic. Monitoring of surface contamination is a common way to assess occupational exposure to antineoplastic drugs, since wipe sampling is used as a surrogate measure of dermal exposure. Since no occupational limits for ...

A 1994 Maryland law prescribes a lead-based paint risk reduction standard for pre-1950, privately owned rental housing. This standard, applied at each tenancy change, can be met by sampling to verify that dust lead loadings are within acceptable limits or by performing specific lead hazard reduction treatments, followed by an independent visual inspection without dust sampling. We evaluated the...

This study evaluated daily cleaning with germicidal bleach wipes on wards with a high incidence of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The intervention reduced hospital-acquired CDI incidence by 85%, from 24.2 to 3.6 cases per 10,000 patient-days, and prolonged the median time between hospital-acquired CDI cases from 8 to 80 days.

A teacher by profession, Yakubu has for the past 15 years been a volunteer for the Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Programme, and one of the biggest obstacles he has had to overcome is the entrenched belief that attributes guinea-worm disease to the will of the gods or witchcraft. “It took some time before I was able to erase these gods, curses and superstitions from their minds,” Yakubu says. Li...

PURPOSES (a) To measure the urinary excretion of antineoplastic drugs of three patients during 48 h after the administration of cyclophosphamide (two patients) and 5-fluorouracil (one patient). (b) To evaluate environmental contamination with antineoplastic drugs via excreta of patients in the home setting. (c) To evaluate exposure of family members to antineoplastic drugs by measuring the drug...

Healthcare associated infections (HCAIs) are responsible for substantial patient morbidity, mortality and economic cost. Infection control strategies for reducing rates of transmission include the use of nonwoven wipes to remove pathogenic bacteria from frequently touched surfaces. Wiping is a dynamic process that involves physicochemical mechanisms to detach and transfer bacteria to fibre surf...