This paper, electronic resonant ballast for a small photovoltaic powered street lighting system in remote rural area was proposed. The street lighting system was designed for rural area where the electrical transmission line cannot be commonly serviced and it is the cascade systems of the solar arrays, switching battery charger, and electronics ballast with small fluorescent lamp. The ballast i...

The filarial parasite Loa loa, the causative agent of loiasis, is endemic in Central and Western Africa infecting 3-13 million people. L. loa has been associated with fatal encephalopathic reactions in high Loa-infected individuals receiving ivermectin during mass drug administration programs for the control of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. In endemic areas, the only diagnostic metho...

Fluorescent lamps are non-linear devices that exhibit negative resistance over the useful range of operation. At low frequency, this negative resistance peculiarity is passed through during each period of the AC driving current [1]. When the fluorescent lamp operates at high frequency, the negative resistance is associated with the average power rather than with the instantaneous, cycle by cycl...

Here, a novel model of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), termed multiple inner primers-LAMP (MIP-LAMP), was devised and successfully applied to detect Listeria monocytogenes. A set of 10 specific MIP-LAMP primers, which recognized 14 different regions of target gene, was designed to target a sequence in the hlyA gene. The MIP-LAMP assay efficiently amplified the target element with...

Joung-Hu Park Jong-Bok Baek Bo-Hyung Cho Abstract — Recently, a mercury-free flat fluorescent lamp has been developed for LCD backlight application, utilizing a glow-discharge mode instead of a discharge contraction. This paper proposes a lamp-driving system with a feedback loop which prevents discharge contraction and stabilizes the operation of the lamp ignition and radiation. By measuring th...

Here, we evaluated the potential activity of rapid Mycobacterium tuberculosis detection with loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), for the early diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM). Patients with suspected TBM from January 2014 to December 2015 were reviewed retrospectively. The cerebrospinalfluid(CSF) was collected. Acid-fast bacillus (AFB) staining, MGIT 960 culture, real-time ...

Fluorescent lamps were first introduced to the world in the 1939 World’s Fair. They are low-pressure mercury discharge lamps. Since then, the fluorescent lamps have been the mainly lighting source due to their merits of high color rendering, soft-visualization, long life, and energy-saving. Unfortunately, however, all gas discharge lamps cannot directly connect to a voltage source and require a...