A technique is described that allows presumptive identification of either Salmonella or Shigella organisms directly upon the original isolation plate, in this case, MacConkey agar. This was accomplished by applying a drop of specifically sensitized protein A-containing Staphylococcus aureus over a "suspected" colony or several colonies of organisms grown on MacConkey agar. The plate is tilted t...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is employed to investigate the overall performance of a pin fin.The following study will examine the effect of governing parameters on overall thermal/fluid performance associated with different fin geometries, including, rectangular plate fins as well as square, circular, and elliptical pin fins. The idea of entropy generation minimization, EGM is employed to ...

The basic drill of plyometric training aimed at improving lower limb power and jump height is a drop jump. This exercise can be performed using different techniques, which substantially affects jump variables. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the values of the reactive strength index (RSI) for countermovement drop jumps (CDJs) and bounce drop jumps (BDJs). The study was carried o...

Blood Grouping. It is essential that the stock agglutinating sera used are of satisfactory potency and devoid of prozone phenomenon (inhibitory action, when undiluted). Such sera should have an initial agglutinin titre of at least I in Ioo and will then remain reliable, even at room temperature, for at least six months (sera conforming to these standards are now available commercially from Mess...

In this study, the newly designed bipolar plate for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) was produced by spray-coating the Ni65Cr15P16B4 metallic glassy alloy on Al plate. The Ni65Cr15P16B4 metallic glass was adopted as a coating material because of its excellent corrosion resistance and the high velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) spray coating was used for the metallic glass deposition on the Al ...