Phillip J. Finley, PhD –#Corresponding Author 3 Rhy Norton, MS 4 Cindy Austin, MS 5 Amber Mitchell 6 Sara Zank, FNP 7 Paul Durham, PhD 8 9 10 1 Mercy Hospital Springfield 11 Division of Trauma & Burn Research 12 1235 E Cherokee, 7H 13 Springfield, MO 65804 14 15 16 2 Jordan Valley Innovation Center 17 Center for Biomedical and Life Sciences 18 524 N. Booneville Ave. 19 Springfield, MO 65806 20 ...

introduction: infection is the most common complication of burn and one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in burned patients. topical antibiotics have important role in prevention and treatment of infection and reduction of mortality in burned patients. increases of use of antibiotics cause microbial resistance. methods: to determine microbial resistance to three topical a...

Multidrug resistant organisms have been taunting the medical world for the last few decades. Even with new antibiotics developed, resistant strains have emerged soon after. With the advancement of nanotechnology, we investigated colloidal silver nanoparticles for its antimicrobial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This organism is a multidrug resistant which contributes to the high morbi...

Smart garments, which can capture electrocardiogram signals at any time or location, can alert others to the risk of heart attacks and prevent sudden cardiac death when people are sleeping, walking, or running. Novel wearable electrodes for smart garments based on conductive chitosan fabrics were fabricated by electroless plating of silver nanoparticles onto the surfaces of the fibers. The elec...

The front transparent conductive oxide layer is a source of significant optical and electrical losses in silicon heterojunction solar cells because of the trade-off between free-carrier absorption and sheet resistance. We demonstrate that hydrogen-doped indium oxide (IO:H), which has an electron mobility of over 100 cm/V s, reduces these losses compared to traditional, low-mobility transparent ...

Abstract: The aim of the present investigation is to study the physical and mechanical characteristics of dental-filling spherical high-copper and silver amalgams and to compare them with a common high-copper domestic unicompositional amalgam. In this study, cylindrical specimens were mechanically condensed according to the ISO 1559:1986 Standard in order to measure the compressive strength, Vi...

AIMS The aim of the present study is to compare and assess the fracture resistance of root canal treated teeth with different restorative materials. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present in vitro study was carried out on seventy-five freshly extracted, noncarious, single-canal human lower-first premolars with similar anatomic characteristics. Teeth were randomly assigned to five groups with 15 te...