Traditional techniques for balancing privacy and awareness in video media spaces, like blur filtration, have been proven to be ineffective for compromising home situations involving a media space. As such, this paper presents the rationale and prototype design of a context-aware home media space (HMS)—defined as an always-on video media space used within a home setting—that focuses on identifyi...

Iodinated contrast agents are usually classified based upon their osmolality--high, low, and isosmolar. Iodinated contrast agents are also nephrotoxic in some but not all patients resulting in loss of glomerular filtration rate. Over the past 30 years, nephrotoxicity has been linked to osmolality although the precise mechanism underlying such a link has been elusive. Improvements in our underst...

A rapid, in situ thermonuclease test that identifies colonies of Staphylococcus aureus among staphylococci isolated from swimming pool water by membrane filtration recovery on various selective and differential media is described.

The corona-charged fibrous electrets are dielectric materials exhibiting quasi-permanent electrical charge imparted by means of corona discharge process. The electrical charge in the electret fibrous materials has been utilized to capture hazardous particles from complex air streams. Air filters of this kind are widely used as respirators and face masks in personal protective equipments, dust c...

In the animal experiments, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) values were estimated from the urinary response to the intravenously administrated iopamidol. By introducing some reasonable assumptions, mass balance equations about the contrast medium were transformed and GFR was defined as the ratio of logarithm of urinary concentration by time. Urinary concentrations were determined by measuring t...

Annals of Chemical Science Research Progressive Indoor Air Quality Management Using Nanocomposites Derived Filtration Media Ayesha Kausar1,2,3*, Ishaq Ahmad1,2,3, Zhu Tianle4 and Eisa MH5 1NPU-NCP joint international research center on Advanced Nanomaterials Defects engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China 2UNESCO-UNISA Africa Chair in Nano-sciences/Nanotechnology, iThemba LABS...

River bank filtratio filtration (RBF) is one of the novel water abstraction alternatives to tackle poor water quality problem in Malaysia. This study was conducted to investigate the potential use of zeolite and activated carbon as filter media in the laboratory RBF system. Characteristics of the materials were first determined using the surface analyzer and X-ray fluorescence method. Filter co...