BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are the most used anthropometric measures to identify obesity. While BMI is considered to be a simple and accurate estimate of general adiposity, WC is an alternative surrogate measure of visceral obesity. However, WC is subject to significant inter-examiner variation. The aim of the present study was to correlate BMI and WC measures...

The asphalt pavement layer is composed of a mixture coarse aggregate, medium fine aggregate and asphalt. use derived from natural aggregates or rivers which are taken directly without the process breaking stone with crusher (Stone Crusher) resulted in poor quality will affect all Marshall test parameters. Therefore, research usinggravel broken planes, one plane, two many cracked areas on were c...

the objective of this research is to investigate the effect of four additives including iron slag (is), works debris (wd), fly ash (fa), and lime kiln dust (lkd) on the biochemical properties of biosolids produced at mangere wastewater treatment plant (mwwtp), auckland, new zealand. all these additives are homogenously mixed in the laboratory with biosolids at various percentages with and witho...

water desorption isotherms of raw and osmotically dehydrated (at 25ºc, for 2 hours, with 10 and 26% nacl solutions) garlic slices at different temperatures (25, 40, 55, and 70ºc) were experimentally determined over a range of water activity of 0.05–0.90 using a static gravimetric method. desorption isotherms can be classified as type iii. the water desorption isotherms of raw garlic clearly sho...

Previous studies have suggested that the intake of trans-fatty acids (TFA) plays a role in the development of obesity. The proportions of adipose tissue fatty acids not synthesised endogenously in humans, such as TFA, usually correlate well with the dietary intake. Hence, the use of these biomarkers may provide a more accurate measure of habitual TFA intake than that obtained with dietary quest...

Present research expresses an experimental investigation on nanoparticle use to enhance Solar still (SS) yield. Manganese Oxide (MNO2) is selected as a material and used in SS. The nanomaterial added with the black chrome paint of SS walls increase weight concentrations (WC) MNO2 have been from 20% 50 see its effect It has observed that heat transfer water temperature enhanced by paint. improve...

Fine-grained tungsten carbide copper (WC-Cu) cemented carbide was sintered via spark plasma sintering at 1773K using a fine WC powder with a mean particle size of 0.11 mm. The mechanical properties were compared with tungsten carbide cobalt (WC-Co) cemented carbide and a binderless WC-sintered material. The Vickers hardness and fracture toughness obtained by the indentation fracture method for ...

The paper presents study results of Stellite-6/(WC+TiC) coatings produced by laser alloying with varying contents reinforcing phases (40%wt and 60%wt content mixture WC+TiC). were on S355 steel using different beam power densities: 76 kW/cm2, 115 kW/cm2 153 kW/cm2. obtained subjected to microhardness measurements, wear resistance tests, chemical composition analysis microstructure observations ...

In the Neurospora circadian negative feedback loop, white collar 1 (WC-1) and WC-2 form the WC complex that activates frequency (frq) transcription. Here we show that Not1 is a WC-interacting protein and is important for maintaining WC levels. The not1 transcript displays a circadian oscillation with a similar phase as frq. Down-regulation of not1 leads to low levels of WC-1 and WC-2 and a dela...

the application of organic amendments can be an appropriate solution to reclaim and improve physical propertiesof saline-sodic soils. in this research, an experiment was performed under greenhouse conditions to study the effect ofamendments to the physical properties of loamy saline-sodic soil. the five treatments were control (withoutamendment), municipal solid waste compost (mc), vermicompost...