conclusions there was a moderate level of knowledge, practices, perceives and beliefs in nurses and students for the importance of hand hygiene. compliance with the importance of hand hygiene in infection control is complex, and perceptual factors concerning hand hygiene, in addition to an individual’s knowledge could affect the behaviors related to hand hygiene compliance. background the curre...

Ouabain inhibited 86RbCl uptake by 80% in rabbit gastric superficial epithelial cells (SEC), revealing the presence of a functional Na+,K+-ATPase [(Na+ + K+)-transporting ATPase] pump. Intact SEC were used to study the ouabain-sensitive Na+,K+-ATPase and K+-pNPPase (K+-stimulated p-nitrophenyl phosphatase) activities before and after lysis. Intact SEC showed no Na+,K+-ATPase and insignificant M...

In this paper, we propose a hand shape recognition method using the sEMG (surface electromyography) of the upper extremity. The upper extremity sEMG is acquired using Myo which is a wearable device. The target hand shapes are three: Rock, Paper, and Scissors. For hand shape recognition, four features obtained with FFT and wavelet transform are used. SVM and an improved k-NN are used for classif...

A hand biometric authentication method based on measurements of the user's hand geometry and vascular pattern is proposed. To acquire the hand geometry, the thickness of the side view of the hand, the K-curvature with a hand-shaped chain code, the lengths and angles of the finger valleys, and the lengths and profiles of the fingers were used, and for the vascular pattern, the direction-based va...

We synthesized superconducting fullerene nanowhiskers (C(60)NWs) by potassium (K) intercalation. They showed large superconducting volume fractions, as high as 80%. The superconducting transition temperature at 17 K was independent of the K content (x) in the range between 1.6 and 6.0 in K-doped C(60) nanowhiskers (K(x)C(60)NWs), while the superconducting volume fractions changed with x. The hi...

and δj = sin 2 π k+2 / sin π(j+1) k+2 . They were first proved by Kirillov and Reshetikhin [1]. The right hand side of this identity is equal to π 2 6 times the central charge of an integrable level k representation of the affine Kac-Moody Lie algebra ŝl2. This number appears in the asymptotics of the character of such a representation. Following the general approach taken in our previous work ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the consistency of working length control between hand instrumentation in comparison to engine driven Mtwo nickel-titanium rotary files. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty extracted maxillary molars were selected and divided onto two parallel groups. The working lengths of the mesiobuccal root canals were estimated. The teeth were fixed in a pha...

With the advent of digital medical imaging, implementation of automated image processing has been explored for a number of years. Nevertheless, to date, exploration in the computer-aided digital medical imaging processing remains confronting with numerous challenges and unsolved technical issues. Radiographic hand bone segmentation is one of them. The most common bones used in skeletal age matu...