This study is aimed at understanding the structural and functional changes that could occur in the left ventricle of dogs acutely infected with Trypanosoma brucei. Twenty clinically healthy adult dogs of both sexes with an average weight of 8.4 kg were used for the study. They were divided into infected and uninfected groups of fifteen and five dogs, respectively. Each dog was intra-peritoneall...

background: car wash wastewater contains several contaminants such as organic matter, oil, grease, detergents and phosphates, all of which are harmful for the environment. in this study, the application of electrocoagulation (ec) to treat car wash wastewater has been studied, and the operating parameters optimized. the electro-fenton (ef) for further contaminant removal was also investigated. m...

This study presents trace elements levels in surface and deep sediments of the Toulon bay (SE France) subjected to anthropogenic inputs (navy base, harbors, etc.). The studied elements (As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Zn) are defined as priority contaminants in aquatic systems. Fifty-five points scattered on the entire bay were sampled, allowing the determination of contaminants distribution with a...

background: electrochemical methods, as one of the advanced oxidation processes (aops), have recently been applied to remove different contaminants from water and wastewater. this study compares the performance of anodic oxidation (ao) and electro-fenton (ef) methods on waste sludge treatment. methods: this experimental study was performed on real sludge and the effect of operating parameters s...

A QSPR (quantitative structure-property relationship) model for the estimation of the liquid viscosity of a large variety of organic compounds was established using the CODESSA (comprehensive descriptors for structural and statistical analysis) approach. The final model was developed with a calibration set containing 337 compounds. The multilinear regression (MLR) equation that relates ln η to ...

PURPOSES ECG-gated myocardial SPECT program (QGS) is coming into wide use. This program permits measurement of end-diastolic volume (EDV), and end-systolic volume (ESV) and ejection fraction (EF) by automatic detection of myocardial edges. We assessed the reproducibility, accuracy, factors that affect the measurement of these indices using a cardiac phantom and clinical data. METHODS In the p...

BACKGROUND Viability seems to be important in preventing ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated the influence of viability, as demonstrated with low-dose dobutamine echocardiography, and the role of early revascularization on the process of left ventricular (LV) remodeling after AMI. METHODS We retrospectively investigated 224 patients who were initial...

abstract: deficit irrigation technique can be used for produce more yield for every unit of irrigation water, and cause to increase crop economical benefit. main purpose of deficit irrigation is high water use efficiency with decreasing in irrigation sufficiency. in this research potential of cropwat model in deficit irrigation management for two crops, wheat and barley in karaj climate was stu...

In this paper, we consider the statistical properties of chain reaction of stock indices. The theory of interacting systems and statistical physics are applied to describe and study the fluctuations of two stock indices in a stock market, and the properties of the interacting reaction of the two indices are investigated in the present paper. In this work, stochastic analysis and the two random ...