the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of nigella sativa  (ns) fixed oil in comparison to dexamethasone (dex) on inducible nitric oxide synthase (inos), peripheral blood eosinophils (pbe), allergen specific serum igg1 and interleukins and airway inflammation in a murine model of allergic asthma. thirty-one mice were divided into four groups. group  i (n =  6) served as the control...

The present study was undertaken to elucidate the effect of Perilla frutescens fixed oil on experimental esophagitis in albino rats. A group of rats (n = 6), treated with control vehicle (0.9% NaCl in double distilled water, 3 mL/kg, i.p.) and Perilla frutescens fixed oil (100%) (1, 2, and 3 mL/kg, i.p.), or pantoprazole (30 mg/kg, i.p.), were subjected to pylorus and forestomach ligation. Anim...

Most of the Oil Pumping Units (OPU) are manually monitored. This existing oil-pumping systems use a high power-consuming process, is incapable of OPU’s structural health monitoring. In this paper, a sensor network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient oil well health monitoring. The condition of the oil storage tanks can be monitored using sensors like level sens...

A new formulation to easy simulation and optimization of gas and oil production systems is presented in this work. The problem of interest corresponds to the typical daily gas and oil production calculation, i.e. a one-day time period planning. The simulation problem considers determination of oil and gas production for the current topology. The optimization problem is established by considerin...

A pyrolysis study on a species of brown algae Saccharina japonica was carried out in a fixed-bed reactor. The yields of bio-oil and bio-char obtained at 450 C were 47 % and 33 %, respectively. The raw S, japonica, ethanol and acid pretreated samples and the resulting pyrolysis products were also characterized with respect to proximate and ultimate analysis, and higher heating value. The crude b...

A parallel reservoir simulator has been developed, which is designed for large-scale black oil simulations. It handles three phases, including water, oil and gas, and three components, including water, oil and gas. This simulator can calculate traditional reservoir models and naturally fractured models. Various well operations are supported, such as water flooding, gas flooding and polymer floo...

The effect of King's Vegetable oil, a fixed non-mineral oil, on activity of ampicillin trihydrate, a waterinsoluble form o investigated against resistant clinical strains of Staphylococcus a diffusion method employed, 40% of the resistant clinical strain sensitivity to different oil-dispersed concentrations of ampicillin ranged from 0.06μg/ml to 1.25μg/ml. The resistant strains were strains det...

We investigated the effects of the fixed oil of Nigella sativa seeds in rats by monitoring blood homeostasis and body weight as well as toxicity. Animals were treated daily with an oral dose of 1 ml/kg body weight of the N. sativa seed fixed oil for 12 weeks. Changes in key hepatic enzymes levels were not observed in N. sativa treated rats after 12 weeks of treatment. The serum cholesterol, tri...

Abstract— We develop a number of fixed point rules for training homogeneous, heteroscedastic but otherwise radially-symmetric Gaussian kernel-based topographic maps. We extend the batch map algorithm to the heteroscedastic case and introduce two candidates of fixed point rules for which the end-states, i.e., after the neighborhood range has vanished, are identical to the maximum likelihood Gaus...

Medicinal plants gained momentous support in the recent era for their therapeutic potential. The core objective of the research study was to characterize the indigenous variety of black cumin (Nigella sativa L.), locally known as “Kalonji” and its fixed and essential oils. Compositional analysis revealed that it contains appreciable quantities of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Moreover, pota...