In the last five years, the Safety Institute of Australia Limited (SIA) has developed and implemented a number of strategies to gain professional recognition for the “generalist occupational health and safety (OHS) professional” in Australia and internationally. Despite a considerable amount of work by the SIA aimed at gaining professional status, there does not appear to have been any publishe...

A method for evaluating hydroxyl radical (·OH) scavenging activities using sequential injection analysis (SIA) with chemiluminescence (CL) detection was developed. In this system, CL was produced by the reaction of luminol with ·OH generated from the Fenton reaction. The scavenging activity was expressed as a diminution rate of the CL due to the scavenging of ·OH by a sample. The SIA system all...

A sequential injection analysis (SIA) system for the determination of SCN(-) ion using a microfluidic polymer chip with an embedded SCN(-) ion-selective electrode (SCN(-)-ISE) as a detector was developed. Under the optimal flow conditions of the SIA system, the SCN(-)-ISE showed a good linear relationship between peak heights and logarithmic concentrations of SCN(-) ion with a Nernstian slope o...

The document is aimed at helping policy makers to increase their understanding of the basic elements, processes and multi-dimensional nature of SIAs. It intends to increase awareness of the potential of SIA for developing more sustainable policies, strategies and action plans within OECD member countries. It is hoped that it will stimulate policy makers to implement or revisit their SIAs within...

Supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) are important in achieving high levels of population immunity to measles virus. Using data from a 2006 survey of measles vaccination in Lusaka, Zambia, we developed a model to predict measles immunity following routine vaccination and SIAs, and absent natural infection. Projected population immunity was compared between the current programme and alte...

An automated multiparametric water analyser was developed and evaluated. The system was based on Sequential Injection Analysis and featured a photometric detection system comprising a tricolour RGB LED source and a photodiode. A program compiled in Visual Basic was used to control the SIA flow system, the LEDs, and the data acquisition and processing. The program loads and executes methods writ...

This paper investigates the cache sizes and configurations that can be supported by a high frequency processor of the next generation. Based on the SIA roadmap prediction that a 0.1u processor of the next generation will run at 3.5GHz, we model caches of that technology using the CACTI tool. Access times as well as energy consumption are modeled for caches in the 8k-4M range, for various associ...

Avian influenza viruses (AIV) are an important emerging threat to public health. It is thought that sialic acid (sia) receptors are barriers in cross-species transmission where the binding preferences of AIV and human influenza viruses are sias α2,3 versus α2,6, respectively. In this study, we show that a normal fully differentiated, primary human bronchial epithelial cell model is readily infe...

This article summarises the advantages of the sequential injection analysis (SIA) for the online determination of nutrients in coastal waters. It concentrates on techniques to improve the reliability of the gained data by continuously monitoring one or more standards and on the advantages of online standard additions and offline determination of manually collected samples with the online SIA sy...