Various techniques such as physical, chemical, biological, advanced oxidation and electrochemical are used for the treatment of industrial effluent. The commonly used conventional biological treatment processes are time consuming, need large operational area and are not effective for effluent containing toxic elements. Advanced oxidation techniques result in high treatment cost and are generall...

STANDARDIZATION OF BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE ASPIRATION TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE DIAGNOSTIC YIELD OF CANINE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT SAMPLES Katharine Sarah Woods Advisor: University of Guelph, 2013 Dr. Alice Defarges Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a minimally invasive technique utilized in human and veterinary medicine to sample the lower generation bronchi and alveolar spaces. The basic technique ...

BACKGROUND Female sterilisation is the most popular contraceptive method worldwide. Several techniques are described in the literature, however only few of them are commonly used and properly evaluated. OBJECTIVES To compare the different tubal occlusion techniques in terms of major and minor morbidity, failure rates (pregnancies), technical failures and difficulties, and women's and surgeons...

Our purpose was to determine whether smooth muscle cell membrane properties are altered in small pulmonary arteries (SPA) of piglets at an early stage of pulmonary hypertension. Piglets were raised in either room air (control) or hypoxia for 3 days. A microelectrode technique was used to measure smooth muscle cell membrane potential (E(m)) in cannulated, pressurized SPA (100- to 300-microm diam...

Thirty-one Cephalosporin compounds were modeled using the multivariate image analysis and applied to the quantitative structure activity relationship (MIA-QSAR) approach. The acid dissociation constants (pKa) of cephalosporins play a fundamental role in the mechanism of activity of cephalosporins. The antimicrobial activity of cephalosporins was related to their first pKa by different models. B...

Thirty-one Cephalosporin compounds were modeled using the multivariate image analysis and applied to the quantitative structure activity relationship (MIA-QSAR) approach. The acid dissociation constants (pKa) of cephalosporins play a fundamental role in the mechanism of activity of cephalosporins. The antimicrobial activity of cephalosporins was related to their first pKa by different models. B...

Objectives: To evaluate the importance of solar-based Electrocoagulation followed by filtration process in treating domestic greywater, analyze each operational process’s performance highlighting cost, efficiency and reuse conditions. Analysis: This research aimed to see if continuous mode EC technique could treat Greywater (GW) with batterypowered solar energy. The running on energy is used as...

This study presents biotreatment of textile wastewaters using electrocoagulation and ozone processes. Ozonation process gave better results than electrocoagulation process. For electrocoagulation, optimum working conditions were found as follows: pH, 6.5; electrode type, iron electrode; current density, 20 mA/cm2; and reaction time, 15 min. Under these circumstances, values determined for elect...