In recent science Nanotechnology is a burning field for the researchers. To meet the requirements and growing technological demand, there is a need to develop an eco-friendly approach. In the present effort, the baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) has been taken in order to assess its potential as putative candidate fungal genera for the transformation of silver nanoparticles. Silve...

Transfer of a rifampicin-resistant mutant of Listeria monocytogenes from an inoculated slicing blade to slices of 'gravad' salmon (Salmo salar), and from inoculated salmon fillet to the slicing machine and subsequently to slices of uninoculated fillet was studied. The effect of slicing temperature (0 degrees C, 10 degrees C and room temperature), inoculum level (approx. 3, 5 and 8 log CFU/blade...

background: the goal was to upgrade and/or uprate the traditional non-contact array by producing few modifications in the configuration of this model in order to maximize light receiving of water from the uv lamp and a better disinfection.  methods: an innovative non-contact model was made with a design based on irradiation of water, which was flowing as two thin waterfalls around a uv lamp in ...

This paper proposes a new addition method, which can be applied to reduce the hardware cost of LDPC decoders using log-SPA, which traditionally has the best lowest bit error rate (BER) but the highest hardware requirement. The proposed quasi-binary weighting addition can be simply implemented by OR gates. With auxiliary pseudo-carry circuit, the BER performance can reach a fair level. In the lo...

Pathogen reduction is a viable approach to ensure the continued safety of the blood supply against emerging pathogens. However, the currently licensed pathogen reduction techniques are ineffective against non-enveloped viruses such as hepatitis A virus, and they introduce chemicals with concerns of side effects which prevent their widespread use. In this report, we demonstrate the inactivation ...

We address the All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem for a number of unweighted, undirected geometric intersection graphs. We present a general reduction of the problem to static, offline intersection searching (specifically detection). As a consequence, we can solve APSP for intersection graphs of n arbitrary disks in O ( n logn ) time, axis-aligned line segments in O ( n log log n ) time, a...

We study the classical rumor spreading problem, which is used to spread information in an unknown network with n nodes. We present the first protocol for any expander graph G with n nodes and minimum degree Θ(n) such that, the protocol informs every node in O(log n) rounds with high probability, and uses O(log n log log n) random bits in total. The runtime of our protocol is tight, and the rand...

The efficacy of the Campylobacter (C.) phages NCTC12684 (group II) and CP81 (group III) and of the Yersinia (Y.) phage PY100 to reduce the numbers of Campylobacter and Y. enterocolitica in meat at 4(o)C applying different Multiplicities of Infection (MOIs) was analyzed. Initial experiments were carried out in broth at 4(o)C and 37(o)C to compare cell number reductions under chilling and optimiz...

The effects of thermosonication and thermal treatment on Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Enteritidis suspended in citrate-phosphate buffer of pH 3 to pH 6 were studied at 30, 40 and 50 °C. Application of ultrasound and low pH was found to enhance the inactivation of the pathogens; with the highest reduction of the pathogens was achieved by thermosonication at 50 °C in pH 3 buffer. Appro...

Turbo codes have recently been considered for energy-constrained wireless communication applications, since they facilitate a low transmission energy consumption. However, in order to reduce the overall energy consumption, lookup table-log-BCJR (LUT-Log-BCJR) architectures having a low processing energy consumption are required. In this paper, we decompose the LUT-Log-BCJR architecture into its...