These functional foods designed to provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition (KayaCeliker and Mallikarjunan, 2012). Accruing evidences have acclaimed that dietary consumption of vitamin D is linked with low risks of multiple chronic diseases (Calvo et al., 2013; Green et al., 2010; Hohman et al., 2011; Jasinghe et al., 2005; Keane et al., 1998; Keegan et al., 2013; Ko et al., 2008; Koyyala...

It is widely recognized that mathematically simple systems of nonlinear differential equations can exhibit chaos. With the advent of fast computers, it is now possible to explore the entire parameter space of these systems with the goal of finding parameters that result in some desired characteristics of the system. Recently, many new chaotic flows have been discovered that are not associated w...

This paper presents a new model of equivalent modulus derived from the Repeated Load CBR (RL-CBR) test without strain gauge. This model is an updated version of Araya et al. model (2011), the update consists of using the vertical strain as weighting factor instead of vertical displacement in the mean vertical and horizontal stresses calculation. The accuracy of equivalent modulus was improved b...

This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by developing and estimating a probabilisticvoting model of political competition under the Electoral College system. Actual campaigns act in close agreement with the model. There is a 0.9 correlation between equilibrium and actual presidential campaign...

the aim of this paper is to prove a common fixed point theorem for nonexpansive type single valued mappings which include both continuous and discontinuous mappings by relaxing the condition of continuity by weak reciprocally continuous mapping. our result is generalize and extends the corresponding result of jhade et al. [p.k. jhade, a.s. saluja and r. kushwah, coincidence and fixed points of ...

Bladder cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in American men and almost 25% is muscle invasive at the time of diagnosis (Cancer Facts and Figures, 2009; Nieder et al., 2008). Currently, most effective local treatment of muscle invasive bladder cancer and noninvasive, high-grade bladder tumors that recur or progress despite intravesical therapies is open radical cystoprostatectomy with ur...

Background Background: The fatty acid composition of the sperm membrane changes drastically during spermatogenesis and may be key to its function. Previous data has shown that intake of long chain poly-unsaturated fatty acids can change the fatty acid composition of tissues, including testes and sperm. However, whether these changes in composition translate into changes in semen quality or male...