− In this paper a cost-effective method for measuring transportation velocity and the velocity profile of a material flow of powdery solids inside a pipe is presented. For the measurement, artificial perturbations are brought into the mass flow and the effects of these perturbations are acquired and correlated at measurement sections. The velocity profile is calculated with the knowledge of the...

Under unequal variances on normally distributed responses, the problem of detecting the lowest dose level of treatment for which the mean response is greater than that of Placebo is considered. A general framework of single-stage contrast combined family is constructed, which can be used to remove the influence of unequal variances. Based on this framework, several such families are considered ...

Mixed hardwood chips were treated with lignin-degrading fungi to study the effect of fungal pretreatment on bleaching characteristics of kraft pulp. Pretreated wood chips were subjected to reduced active alkali doses in comparison to untreated chips. Comparable results were obtained for pretreated chips with reduced alkali dose as was obtained with higher dose of alkali in case of untreated chi...

In this study 222Rn (Radon) measurement were performed in water and soil gas and also both 222Rn and 220Rn concentrations were determined in air of Mansa and Muktsar district of Punjab, India. The data then used for calculation of the annual effective dose for health risk assessment of public. Totally 35 locations have been selected for the measurements. All measurements (222Rn and 220Rn) were ...

Isorhamnetin (ISO) is a flavonoid from plants of the Polygonaceae family and is also an immediate metabolite of quercetin in mammals. To date, the anti‑tumor effects of ISO and the underlying mechanisms have not been elucidated in lung cancer cells. The present study investigated the inhibitory effects of ISO on the growth of human lung cancer A549 cells. Treatment of the lung cancer cells with...

Objectives: Ischemic heart disease is one of the leading causes death worldwide. Bilirubin, an endogenous product heme catabolism, has remarkable antioxidant properties. This study was planned with aim to evaluate cardioprotective potential bilirubin in isoprenaline (ISO)- induced rat myocardial ischemia model. Methods: In this study, a total 24 adult male Wistar albino rats (200–250 g) were di...

sublingual nitroglycerin (tng) has been introduced as a promising provocative agent for tilt table testing, but it has not been compared directly with the standard isoproterenol (iso) infusion test previously. we tried to assess the diagnostic value and safety of tng tilt testing as compared with iso infusion in patients with unexplained syncope. tng and iso tilt tests were performed in two suc...

At Crypto ’85, Desmedt and Odlyzko described a chosen-ciphertext attack against plain RSA encryption. The technique can also be applied to RSA signatures and enables an existential forgery under a chosen-message attack. The potential of this attack remained untapped until a twitch in the technique made it effective against two very popular RSA signature standards, namely iso/iec 9796-1 and iso/...

BACKGROUND Increased formation of 8-iso-prostaglandin (PG) F(2alpha) and thromboxane (TX) A(2), potent agonists of platelet and vascular thromboxane (TH)/PGH(2) receptors, has been detected in cigarette smokers. We performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the effects of vitamin E (300, 600, and 1200 mg/d, each dose for 3 consecutive weeks) on 8-iso-PGF(2alpha) and TXA(2...

Anesthetic isoflurane (ISO) has immunomodulatory effects. In the present study, we investigated whether a subanesthetic dose of ISO (0.7%) protected against zymosan (ZY) induced inflammatory responses in the murine lung and isolated neutrophils. At 1 and 6 hrs after ZY administration intraperitoneally, ISO was inhaled for 1 hr, and 24 hrs later, lung inflammation and injury were assessed. We fo...