The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the emergent severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) threatens global public health, and there …

During the past several years, researchers in the US and Europe have developed measurement
techniques and analysis tools to estimate the inherent safety of a plant or a processing …

Safe and effective vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are essential for
ending the ongoing pandemic. Although impressive progress has been made with several …

Chemical process safety was not a major public concern prior to 1984. As far as chemical
hazards were concerned, public fears focused on disease (cancer) and environmental …

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant
patients and is the leading viral cause of birth defects after congenital infection. HCMV infection …

Despite the successful deployment of efficacious vaccines and therapeutics, the development
of novel vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 remains a major goal to increase vaccine doses …

Inherent safety has been recognized as a design approach useful to remove or reduce
hazards at the source instead of controlling them with add-on protective barriers. However, …

A safety instrumented system (SIS) may fail to operate as desired when one or more of its
devices fail due to random, systematic, and common cause events. IEC 61511 (ANSI/ISA 84.00.…

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is known to exert suppressive effects on the host immune
system through expression of various viral genes, thus directly and indirectly affecting …

Background: Low testosterone levels are a common finding among men with Type 2 Diabetes
Mellitus (T2DM) and are inversely related to insulin resistance. Whether this relationship …