When the wedding was over, Zarghuna climbed aboard bus, leaving evening's cool breeze for pungent, stuffy air of women's section. All in all, there were about forty them-men, women, and children-returning home from celebrations a neighbouring village. The women sat at front, swathed burqas hiding finery underneath, their faces made up carefully hoarded foundation, bright red lipstick, eyes rimm...

•Drastic transition of bubble dynamics on wettable/non-wettable porous electrodes•Significant change overpotential electrodes•Design guideline for high-performance gas-evolving electrodes Electrochemical reactions play a crucial role in many industrial energy conversion and storage processes. The continuous gas production leads to the evolution bubbles at reaction sites, which further result lo...

Grapeseed Proanthocyanidin [GSP] seeds possessing a potent antioxidant and cardioprotective properties were evaluated against Doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity in rats. Intraperitonial injection of DOX [10mg kgˉ1 /b.wt] administrated once a day for 15 days was revealed by elevated serum creatine phoshokinase [CPK] lactatedehydrogenase [LDH] aspartate transaminase [ASP] alanine transaminase [AL...

The gradual deterioration of the pancreatic β-cell function in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients prompts the progressive introduction of more complex treatments, including the initiation of insulin in many patients. Rapid-acting insulin analogs (aspart, lispro, and glulisine) show advantages over human regular insulin due to their rapid absorption, short duration, and higher maximum insu...