In previous studies, heterocyclic amines (HCAs) have been identified as carcinogenic and a risk factor for human cancer. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify bioactive natural products capable of controlling the formation of HCAs during cooking. For this purpose we have evaluated the effect of Rosa rugosa tea extract (RTE) on the formation of HCAs in ground beef patties fried a...

SEAL was first introduced in [1] by Rogaway and Coppersmith as a fast software-oriented encryption algorithm. It is a pseudorandom function which stretches a short index into a much longer pseudorandom string under control of a secret key pre-processed into internal tables. In this paper we first describe an attack of a simplified version of SEAL, which provides large parts of the secret tables...

N,N-dichloropolystyrene sulfonamide as a decontaminant was synthesized in 5 steps from styrene monomer. Styrene was first polymerized. Then, sulfonation reaction was performed by H2SO4 (c) followed by chlorination with POCl3 obtain chlorosulfonated polystyrene. Amidification reaction was then applied to get sulfonamide resin. Sulfonamide resin was treat...

We used the immature rat uterotrophic assay to determine the estrogenicity of bisphenol A (BPA). We administered BPA (in sesame oil) to rats subcutaneously (sc; 0, 8, 40, and 160 mg/kg/day) or orally (0, 40, 160, and 800 mg/kg/day) for 3 days beginning on postnatal day (PND) 18; rats were sacrificed 24 hr after the last administration. Uterine wet, blotted, and relative weights increased in all...

This paper studies and designs a symmetric 160 Gb/s and improves the capacity of time and wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM-PON) for nextgeneration passive optical network stage 2 (NG-PON2). Distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode and tunable modulated grating Y-branch (MG-Y) laser with tuning range about 14.4 are used for downstream and upstream direction respectivel...

n,n-dichloropolystyrene sulfonamide as a decontaminant was synthesized in 5 steps from styrene monomer. styrene was first polymerized. then, sulfonation reaction was performed by h2so4 (c) followed by chlorination with pocl3 obtain chlorosulfonated polystyrene. amidification reaction was then applied to get sulfonamide resin. sulfonamide resin was treated with sodium hypochloride to obtain n,n-...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and neuroimaging features of 160 adult patients with tuberculous meningitis (TBM) according to "Thwaites' diagnostic index." METHODS The subjects of this retrospective study are the patients with TBM who were followed up between years 1998 and 2009 in a tertiary referral hospital. Diagnosis of TBM was based on clini...

Using a natural voting experiment in Switzerland that encompasses a 160-year period (1848–2009), we investigate whether a higher level of complexity leads to increased reliance on expert knowledge. We find that when more referenda are held on the same day, constituents are more likely to refer to parliamentary recommendations in making their decisions. This finding holds true even when we narro...

N,N-dichloropolystyrene sulfonamide as a decontaminant was synthesized in 5 steps from styrene monomer. Styrene was first polymerized. Then, sulfonation reaction was performed by H2SO4 (c) followed by chlorination with POCl3 obtain chlorosulfonated polystyrene. Amidification reaction was then applied to get sulfonamide resin. Sulfonamide resin was treat...

Speeding up the scalar multiplication k.P is the major point in elliptic curve cryptosystem efficiency. The Addition-Subtraction (AS) Chain is efficient tool to do that where integer k is fixed and Point P is variable. Since the optimization problem to find the shortest AS Chain is NP-hard, many algorithms to get sub-optimal AS Chain in polynomial time are proposed. The window method is a class...