Agilent Captiva Premium PES syringe filters are evaluated and compared to other suppliers’ PES and PVDF syringe filters for the risk of losing protein during filtration. Captiva Premium PES syringe filters demonstrate low protein binding with excellent recovery for biological samples, especially for ‘sticky’ proteins at low concentrations. In addition, an assessment of filter extractables on LC...

Solar panel design is a key element of CubeSat architecture due to the limited amount of external area available in the CubeSat form factor. The Electron Losses and Fields Investigation (ELFIN) spacecraft is a spin stabilized 3U CubeSat focused on studying the nature of relativistic particle precipitation in the magnetosphere. The spacecraft has significant requirements placed on its magnetic c...

Nowadays certain actions are taken to improve the level of cleanliness in the country. People are getting more active in doing all the things possible to clean their surroundings. Various movements are also started by the government to increase cleanliness. We will try to build a system which will notify the corporations to empty the bin on time. In this system, we will put a sensor on top of t...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to measure and compare the root canal cleanliness and smear layer removal effectiveness of Aquatine Endodontic Cleanser (Aquatine EC) when used as an endodontic irrigating solution in comparison with 6% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl). MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-five human teeth were randomly allocated to five treatment groups; the pulp chamber was accesse...

Encouraging sustainable water use is a critical endeavor in addressing issues associated with shortand long-term droughts. Toilets account for up to 26.7% of indoor household water use. Therefore substantial opportunity exists to conserve water via reduced flushing after urination at home. Here, we use an online survey (N 1⁄4 1008) to identify barriers to reduced flushing. The majority of parti...

This single center, randomized, and controlled study aimed to compare the effectiveness and safety of polyethylene glycol electrolyte lavage (PEG-EL) solution and colonic hydrotherapy (CHT) for bowel preparation before colonoscopy. A total of 196 eligible outpatients scheduled for diagnostic colonoscopy were randomly assigned to the PEG-EL (n = 102) or CHT (n = 94) groups. Primary outcome measu...

Littering quantification is an important step for improving cleanliness of cities. When human interpretation is too cumbersome or in some cases impossible, an objective index of cleanliness could reduce the littering by awareness actions. In this paper, we present a fully automated computer vision application for littering quantification based on images taken from the streets and sidewalks. We ...