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Screening for Non-polyenic Antifungal Produced by Actinobacteria from Moroccan Habitats: Assessment of Antimycin A19 Production by Streptomyces albidoflavus AS25

Fungal diseases are currently a serious public health problem, due to the limited number of really effective principles, and the emergence of resistant strains to the polyenic antifungals. The aim of this study was to screen, for non-polyenic antifungals production by Actinobacteria, and to validate the screening program by characterizing the produced compounds. Actinobacteria isolates were tes...

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

Legal Safeguards for Ambient Intelligence

To take a full benefit of Ambient Intelligence, it is necessary to anticipate and react upon possible drawbacks and threats of the new emerging environment. The risks of new technologies should be examined in order to devise appropriate safeguards. This precautionary approach has been taken by SWAMI project which reflected on possible negative implications of AmI by constructing ‘dark scenarios...

Origin Determination of Reactor Produced Plutonium by Mass Spectrometric Techniques: Application to Nuclear Forensic Science and Safeguards

The age and production type, i.e. origin, are highly important parameters to be revealed when seized Pu from illicit trafficking has to be analysed. In addition, in a view of pending Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, the age determination of Pu enables to control the agreement. The ages of Pu bulk samples were determined from the Pu/U, Pu/U and Pu/U ratios by IDMS and the results were compared t...

Minimally invasive surgery: patients’ and doctors’ perspectives