Infectious diseases are leading cause of death world wide due to multidrug resistant strains of bacteria, reduced susceptibility to antimicrobics and increase in untreatable bacterial infections. Natural products provide unlimited opportunities for new drug leads because of the unmatched availability of chemical diversity. Because of increasing threat of infectious diseases, the need of the hou...

The effect of strenuous muscular exercise on the body has been studied extensively. The responses of many of the mechanisms which take part in attempting to furnish oxygen and fuel and to remove carbon dioxide and other waste products have been analyzed in considerable detail. Studies on the respiratory exchange, the blood, and the urine have contributed much toward furnishing us with a detaile...

Succinic acid is an important C4-building chemical platform for many applications. A novel succinic acid-producing bacterial strain was isolated from goat rumen. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA sequence and physiological analysis indicated that the strain belongs to the genus Enterobacter. This is the first report of a wild bacterial strain from the genus Enterobacter that is capabl...

An industrial plant consists of an input of energy, raw materials and labor and an output of products, waste energy and waste materials. If raw material and labor costs are relatively fixed, a reduction in the plant’s energy costs and waste materials are the two best means of improving profitability. This project specifically evaluates cogeneration opportunities as a means of substantially redu...

Bilirubin, the end product of heme catabolism in mammals, is generally regarded as a potentially cytotoxic, lipid-soluble waste product that needs to be excreted. However, in the last 10 years, in vitro and in vivo studies, have demonstrated that bilirubin exhibits potent anti-oxidant properties preventing the oxidative damage triggered by a wide range of oxidant-related stimuli. Therefore, the...

Plasma gasification/vitrification is a technologically advanced and environmentally friendly method of disposing of waste, converting it to commercially usable by-products. This process is a drastic non-incineration thermal process, which uses extremely high temperatures in an oxygen-starved environment to completely decompose input waste material into very simple molecules. The intense and ver...

BACKGROUND Unsafe working practices, working environments, disposable waste products, and chemicals in clinical laboratories contribute to infectious and non-infectious hazards. Staffs, the community, and patients are less safe. Furthermore, such practices compromise the quality of laboratory services. We conducted a study to describe safety practices in public hospital laboratories of Oromia R...

These guidelines cover all aspects of the care of patients who are treated with peritoneal dialysis. This includes equipment and resources, preparation for peritoneal dialysis, and adequacy of dialysis (both in terms of removing waste products and fluid), preventing and treating infections. There is also a section on diagnosis and treatment of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis, a rare but seri...

Bilirubin has traditionally been considered a cytotoxic waste product. However, recent studies have shown bilirubin to have anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, vasodilatory, anti-apoptotic and anti-proliferative functions. These properties potentially confer bilirubin a new role of protection especially in coronary artery disease (CAD), which is a low grade inflammatory process exacerbated by oxid...

Concrete a composite material made from cement, water, fine aggregate and coarse aggregate. But present researchers are in interest of finding new cement materials by waste materials or waste products produced from industries which are harmful to environment. The present paper deals with partial replacement of cement with quarry dust and metakaolin which are having silica used as admixture for ...