December 2012
Role of reactive oxygen species in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease
Oxidative stress, in recent times, appears to be a major underlying risk factor in the occurrence of major diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and inflammatory diseases. During oxidative stress, an overall dysfunction of the balance between the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and the antioxidant defence mechanism occurs and a shift is obtained in favour of ROS production. Consequently, this...
December 2012
Integrated Water Resources Management work in the Euphrates and Tigris River-Basin
The water crisis in the Middle East is worsening. The indicators of this crisis include increasing population, scarce and unequally-distributed water resources, competing claims of co-riparian countries, conflicts in utilizing of transboundary waters, and deficiencies in international water law. The pressure that these problems cause in terms of water resources is most evident in transboundary river basins. These...
December 2012
Innovations in public sector-led agricultural extension
This paper briefly analyse the genesis, development and change in public sector-led extension approaches in India showing its temporal pattern, emerging innovations in extension approaches and the way forward. It discusses decentralized, community based, pluralistic extension approaches and their opportunities as well as limitations in changing agricultural and natural resources scenario. The paper gives emphasis on the...
December 2012
Cat swarm optimization clustering (KSACSOC): A cat swarm optimization clustering algorithm
Clustering is an unsupervised process that divides a given set of objects into groups so that objects within a cluster are highly similar with one another and dissimilar with the objects in other clusters. In this article, a new clustering method based on cat swarm optimization was proposed to find the proper clustering of data sets called K-means improvement and Simulated Annealing selection based cat swarm...
December 2012
Entrainment mass transfer in annular flow regime of two-phase carbon dioxide
Having more heat transfer rate and lower pressure drop, along with better environmental treatment, carbon dioxide has drawn the attention of many researchers. Most of the two-phase heat transfer analyses are involved in estimation of dry-out phenomenon in order to avoid heat transfer drops. Entrainment, because of having great influence on dry-out occurrence, is studied in this article. Most of the available models for...
December 2012
Effects of Er:YAG laser conditioning on the microleakage of class 2 composite restorations
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of thermocycling and Er:YAG laser conditioning on the microleakage of silorane, packable and nano-filled composites. 512 Class 2 cavities were prepared on 256 premolars. The teeth were assigned to 8 groups 1= Filtek Silorane, 2= Filtek Silorane with laser conditioning, 3= Aelite LS with acid conditioning, 4= Aelite LS with laser and acid conditioning,...
December 2012
Cluster-assembled ZnO films prepared by electrochemical deposition on copper substrate
Cluster-assembled ZnO films were synthesized by using electrochemical deposition technique with various reaction times. Zinc nitrate dissolved in de-ionized water was used as a precursor of ZnO film. The as-synthesized cluster-assembled ZnO films were performed on a copper plate used as a substrate at room temperature. The stabilized high electric field of 4 kV/m was applied in the process. Field emission scanning...
December 2012
Variation of clay brick colors and mechanical strength as affected by different firing temperatures
This study was conducted to quantitatively determine the effect of firing temperature on color formation and to assess the relationship between mechanical strength and color components of clay bricks. Redness index, chroma, hue and color difference (∆E) of bricks fired at 700 to 1050°C in steps of 25°C under free access of air were measured with a colorimeter. Relations between temperature and each of the...
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