results liver function tests in the healthy blood donors were within the normal range. the incidence rates of senv-d and senv-h in the 184 total blood donors were 10 (5.4%) (95% confidence interval (ci): 2.1% - 9.0%) and 32 (17.4%) cases (95% ci: 12.0% - 23.0%), respectively. senv-h/d co-infection occurred in 2 (1.1%) patients. the sera of 8/184 (4.3%) were positive for anti-hbc antibody but ne...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessments of ovarian reserve (OR) in egg donor candidates are crucial for maximal donor selection. This study assesses whether recently reported new methods of OR assessment by age-specific (as-), rather than non-as (nas-) hormones, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), and triple nucleotide (CGG) repeats on the FMR1 (fragile X) gene have the...

Using a variational procedure within the effective-mass approximation, we have made a theoretical study of the effects of hydrostatic pressure and applied electric fields on the binding energy of a shallow-donor impurity in square-transversal section GaAs-Ga0.7Al0.3As quantum-well wires. The electric field is applied in a plane of the transversal section of the wire and many angular directions ...

Blood donor selection is a cornerstone for blood transfusion safety, designed to safeguard the health of both donors and recipients. In the Service du Sang, Belgian Red Cross, French and German-speaking part of Belgium (SFS), health professionals (HPs) are allowed to interview donors on their own after formal qualification. This qualification is afterward evaluated by means of two complementary...

BACKGROUND Split- thickness skin graft is one of the most common operations in plastic surgery. It is always painful and patient discomfort from donor site often is more significant than recipient site. There is not still a standard method for treatment of the donor site. The purpose of this study was to determine the best method of dressing the donor site among three different methods with re...

In this paper, the electronic eigenstates and energy spectra of single and two-interacting electrons confined in a concentric double quantum rings with a perpendicular magnetic field in the presence of         on-center donor and acceptor impurities are calculated using the exact diagonalization method. For a single electron case, the binding energy of on-center donor and acceptor impurities ar...

In this work using the effective-mass approximation within a variational approach we study the effect of the 3D longitudinal optical phonons on the energy of a shallow donor impurity in a GaAs–(Ga,Al)As quantum-well wire with a magnetic field applied in the wireaxis direction. We obtain the energy of the lower impurity states as a function of the wire radius, the donor position inside the wire,...