This study was aimed to investigate the effect of palm fibers on the properties of lightweight concrete. Such lightweight concrete was produced from coarse lightweight crushed brick and fine lightweight crushed brick (CLWA and FLWA). Different percentages of palm fiber; 0, 0.25,...
CuS films were fabricated by a chemical bath deposition process in an aqueous solution of cupric acetate, thiourea, and different contents of sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate (EDTA-2Na) at 50ºC. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, ultrav...
Francis Soares Gomes, Emmanuel Viana Pontual, Luana Cassandra Breitenbach Barroso Coelho & Patrícia Maria Guedes Paiva·Advances in Research·2014
Microbial communities have a vast importance to the ecosystem being of use by humans for health or industrial purposes. Most bacteria can be distinguished into three groups: saprophytic; symbiotic and parasitic. Saprophytic bacteria, which are the major decomposers of organic mat...
In the present scenario, the digital image processing has enveloped the whole world of advancing technology. The changes on-going in the world are directly or indirectly related to the processing of digital images. In this paper, we studied the impact of changing contrast and bri...
Maymunah Ismail, Maizatul Saadiah, Abdul Rahim Ridzuan & Elsadig Musa Ahmed·Advances in Research·2014
This paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and export (X) towards Malaysia’s economic growth over the period 1980 to 2011. Most past empirical studies observed that both FDI and export are the important sources of economic growth especially a...
Aims: Assessing how medical teams in a paediatric cancer hospital cope with the legal requirement to search for the child’s consent for an inclusion in a clinical trial and children’s participation in tough medical decisions. Study Design: Anthropologic Field Study. Place and Dur...
The holy grail of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the reproduction of the cognitive processes in Silicon based computing machines to mimic the human or animal cognitive behavior. Computationalism attempts to explain cognition in terms of different internal representations a...
Cafer Akpinar, Cemil kavalci, Fevzi Yilmaz, Mehmet Ali Ceyhan & Muhittin Serkan Yilmaz·Advances in Research·2014
Aim: This study was a prospective validation of the Ottawa Ankle Rules (OAR) in our patient population with ankle injury. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective study conducted. Each patient’s demographic characteristics, radiography results, and status of meeting OAR crit...
The most common complications associated with vascular access devices are catheter related bloodstream infections (CR-BSI), which occur in acute care patients every minute, and occlusions. This review will address major issues associated with patient care and research associated...
Andrew Kalyebi, S. Hassan, S. Sithanantham & J. M. Mueke·Advances in Research·2014
Aims: Egg parasitoids, Trichogramma are recognised as natural enemies of many lepidoptera pests worldwide. In Kenya, a number of indigenous parasitoids species have been recovered. We evaluated the relative preference (parasitism) by four Trichogrammatid egg parasitoid species/st...
Inhibition of the mitochondrial electron transfer chain and induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production are one of the roots of cadmium (Cd) toxicity. Our work concerns the study of the effects of a heavy metal; Cadmium (Cd) on the biochemical parameters, of microorgani...
Rooted evolutionary networks have previously been used solely for representing explicit hypotheses of evolutionary history (i.e. a phylogeny). However, they also have potential for exploratory data analysis. An example is presented here that highlights this use. This involves a s...
Intisar H. Saeed, Abdalla M. Abdelatif & Mohamed E. Elnageeb·Advances in Research·2014
Carbimazole (CBZ) is an anti-thyroid drug commonly used in the treatment of hyperthyroidism. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of dose level of CBZ on thermoregulation and blood constituents in mature male rabbits. Twenty animals were assigned to 4 groups (A...
Aims: The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of cooked tea leaves waste (CTLW) to the removal of phosphorus pollutant from water using different design parameters by adsorption process. Study Design: Environmental engineering. Place and Duration of Study: This...