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Co-pyrogasification of Plastics and Biomass, a Review
Over the past few decades, the sharp rise in post-consumer plastic and biomass waste has resulted in an ever growing challenge to treat such waste sustainably. Co-pyrogasification of plastics and biomass mixtu...
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Incineration of Hazardous Waste: A Sustainable Process?
The first objective of any waste policy should be to minimize the negative effects of the generation and management of waste on human health and the environment. Re-use and recycling of waste, although of high...
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Dynamics of childhood invasive meningococcal disease in Israel during a 22-year period (1989–2010)
To describe the dynamics in the incidence of childhood invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Israel during a 22-year period (1989–2010).
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Open AccessP203: Outbreak of puerperal fever in an obstetric ward: a reminder of Ignaz semmelweis
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Open AccessBlood cultures at central line insertion: a comparison with peripheral venipuncture
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mo, Sb and Se Removal from Scrubber Effluent of a Waste Incinerator
Common physicochemical treatment of industrial wastewater is not very efficient regarding the removal of the oxyanion forming elements selenium, molybdenum and antimony. An industrial case is described where e...
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A potential role for the chest X-ray in the transmission of resistant bacteria in the ICU
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Culture-based methods for detection and identification of Streptococcus agalactiae in pregnant women—what are we missing?
We aimed to compare BD group B Streptococcus differential agar (GBSDA) with inoculation into LIM broth and subculture onto blood agar plates (LIM-BA) as a method for GBS screening in pregnant women. First, we com...
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Water management in the Flemish steel industry: the Arcelor Gent case
Steel production is an energy- and water-intensive process: large quantities of water are used for cooling, process and environmental-technical applications. In the mid-1990s, Arcelor Gent, a large integrated ...
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Cluster of Neonatal Infections in Jerusalem due to Unusual Biochemical Variant of Enterobacter sakazakii
Reported here is a cluster of infections due to a nitrate-negative variant of Enterobacter sakazakii, which occurred among premature neonates at the Hadassah Hospital, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, in December 1999–Ja...
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Increasing Incidence of Gonorrhea in Israel Associated with Countrywide Dissemination of a Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Strain
The annual incidence of gonorrhea in Israel has sharply increased during the past 2 years. At the end of 1999, high-level ciprofloxacin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (MIC90, ≥32 mcg/ml) also exhibiti...
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Factors Associated with Nosocomial Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease on the Adult Wards of an Urban Tertiary Care Hospital
A prospective survey of the adult inpatient population of an urban tertiary care hospital was conducted to determine factors associated with the development of nosocomial diarrhea and the acquisition of Clostrid...
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Outbreak of Bloodstream Infections Associated with Dialysis Machine Waste Ports in a Hemodialysis Facility
Eight cases of gram-negative bloodstream infection without a clinically evident source occurred at a hemodialysis unit in Jerusalem between February and September 1997. All infections could be traced to three...
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Failure of Mass Antibiotic Prophylaxis to Control a Prolonged Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease in an Israeli Village
In January 1994 mass antibiotic prophylaxis was undertaken in the contiguous villages of Deir el-Asad and B'ine in northern Israel (combined population of 11 600) in response to a prolonged outbreak of serogr...
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NEONATOLOGIST ATTRITION TO GENERAL PEDIATRICS. 1225
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Clinical Trials of Shigella Vaccines in Israel
Shigellosis or bacillary dysentery is caused by organisms belonging to genus Shigella, divided into four species (S. dysenteriae, S. boydii, S.flexneri and S. sonnei). With the exception of S. sonnei which has a ...
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Re-emergence of meningococcal carriage on three-year follow-up of a kibbutz population after whole-community chemoprophylaxis
A long-term study was conducted to determine the rate of re-emergence of throat carriage of meningococci in a semi-closed kibbutz community after the administration of chemoprophylaxis to all its members. Sero...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Epigenetic Effects of Cadmium in Cellular Signal Transduction
The carcinogen cadmium causes direct genotoxic effects as well as epigenetic changes. Cadmium (II) evokes DNA strand breaks in mammalian cells (Snyder, 198 8) and, if combined with thiol compounds, in isolated...
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Concentration-data of elements in liquid fuel oils as obtained by neutron activation analysis
Three crude oil samples and 49 commercial petroleum products are analysed using instrumental neutron activation analysis for the following elements: Na, Mg, Al, S, Cl, K, Sc, V, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se,...
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Lead contents of coal, coal ash and fly ash
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometry is applied for the determination of Pb in coal, coal ash and fly ash. Lead concentrations in coal and coal ash ranging from respectively 7 to 110 µg g−1 and 120 to 450 µg ...
