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Disinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from N95 respirators with ozone: a pilot study

BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2021
Introduction Personal protective equipment shortages require the reuse of N95 respirators. We sought the necessary conditions for ozone to disinfect N95 respirators for reuse and the effects of multiple cycles of exposure.Methods Portions of 3M 1870 N95 ...
Lokesh Sharma, Charles S Dela Cruz, Edward P Manning, Matthew D Stephens, Sylvie Dufresne, Bruce Silver, Patricia Gerbarg, Zach Gerbarg   +7 more
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Impact of Assistive Technology Lending Banks: A Systematic Review

Applied Sciences
Access to assistive technology (AT) remains a major global challenge, with only 10% of people in need having access to essential devices. Free loan banks of assistive products have emerged as a strategy to promote equitable access, reduce costs, and ...
Cristina Martínez-Silva, Ana Maseda, Thais Pousada García, Jessica Garabal-Barbeira   +3 more
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Optimizing the internal reuse of wireless network equipment [PDF]

, 2013
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2013.Cataloged ...
Lin, Jessica, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A two-stage robust decision-making framework (2S-RDM) for flood risk adaptation under deep uncertainty

Fundamental Research
Flood is one of the major challenges facing human societies. Adapting to future flood risks involves deep uncertainty, especially when long-term projections of climate change are considered. This study proposed a Two-stage Robust Decision Making (2S-RDM)
Jiacong Cai, Yiding Wei, Jianxun Yang, Chenyi Ji, Miaomiao Liu, Wen Fang, Zongwei Ma, Jun Bi   +7 more
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Evaluating the effects of China's pollution controls on inter-annual trends and uncertainties of atmospheric mercury emissions [PDF]

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015
China's anthropogenic emissions of atmospheric mercury (Hg) are effectively constrained by national air pollution control and energy efficiency policies.
Y. Zhao, H. Zhong, J. Zhang, C. P. Nielsen   +3 more
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Water reuse and recycling in Canada — history, current situation and future perspectives

Water Cycle, 2020
Water reuse and recycling in Canada has been alive and viable where there is a need for water conservation or to reduce nutrients going to rivers and lakes.
Tony Van Rossum
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Energy Efficiency and Spectral Efficiency Tradeoff in Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications [PDF]

, 2014
In this letter, we investigate the tradeoff between energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) in device-to-device (D2D) communications underlaying cellular networks with uplink channel reuse.
Dong, Mianxiong, Ota, Kaoru, Sato, Takuro, Wu, Jun, Zhou, Zhenyu   +4 more
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The dangers of reused personal protective equipment: healthcare workers and workstation contamination

Journal of Hospital Infection, 2022
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is essential to protect healthcare workers (HCWs). The practice of reusing PPE poses high levels of risk for accidental contamination by HCWs. Scarce medical literature compares practical means or methods for safe reuse of PPE while actively caring for patients.In this study, observations were made of 28 experienced ...
Doos, D., Barach, P., Alves, N.J., Falvo, L., Bona, A., Moore, M., Cooper, D.D., Lefort, R., Ahmed, R.   +8 more
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Disinfection and reuse of N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic

Revista Cubana de Estomatología, 2022
Introduction: We are living in a context of COVID-19 pandemic, where the shortage of personal protective equipment in health is evident and it is expected that it will continue in the short and medium term.
Victor Marcel Aguilar Salas, Eleana Victoria Benavides Febres   +1 more
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Radio frequency optimization of a Global System for Mobile (GSM) network [PDF]

, 2008
Includes bibliographical ...
Sharma, Bishal
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