For many centuries, the metals are used as the antibacterial factors. Whereas, the nanoparticles are mostly heavy metal oxides, they have a high tendency to interact with biological molecules and develop the deactivation or elimination of the virus or bacteria. In the present study, the antibacterial effect of Cadmium Oxide nanoparticles on Pseudomonas Aeruginosa bacteria was analyzed which are...

Amin Salehi-Khojin, David Estrada, Kevin Y. Lin, Ke Ran, Richard T. Haasch, Jian-Min Zuo, Eric Pop, and Richard I. Masel Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA Micro and Nanotechnology Lab...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has received an increasing amount of interest among scholars and practitioner in recent years. While some companies have received immense benefits from their investments, other companies have seen no bottom line improvements. One often-cited reason for high failure rates has been the cross-functional nature of CRM implementation. Two functions frequently i...

Background Phlebotominae sand flies are the main vectors of leishmaniasis and some other diseases. Materials and Methods Using sticky traps, sand flies were collected fortnightly from outdoors and indoors areas of selected sites. Results A total of 2032 specimens (498 in the city and 1534 in the outskirts of Yazd) belonging to 11 species were collected. The activity of sand flies started in...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Sandflies are reported as the vectors of different kinds of leishmaniasis to human. There are foci of the disease in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the fauna and species composition of sandflies to find the probable vectors of leishmaniasis in Nikshahr county, south-east of Iran, where cutaneous leishmaniasis is endemic. METHODS Sandflies were collected b...

A total of 131 phlebotomine Algerian sandflies have been processed in the present study. They belong to the species Phlebotomus bergeroti, Phlebotomus alexandri, Phlebotomus sergenti, Phlebotomus chabaudi, Phlebotomus riouxi, Phlebotomus perniciosus, Phlebotomus longicuspis, Phlebotomus perfiliewi, Phlebotomus ariasi, Phlebotomus chadlii, Sergentomyia fallax, Sergentomyia minuta, Sergentomyia a...

By generalizing the framework of the second version of the Duman–Salehi bound encompassing also deterministic and random codes, we demonstrate its rather broad features and show that this variation provides the natural bridge between the 1961 and 1965 Gallager bounds. This approach entails a natural geometric interpretation, encompassing also a large class of e0cient recent bounds (or their Che...