BACKGROUND Currently, there are no consistently effective chemotherapies for recurrent and inoperable meningiomas. Recently, cucurbitacin I (JSI-124), a naturally occurring tetracyclic triterpenoid compound used as folk medicines has been found to have cytoxic and anti-proliferative properties in several malignancies thru inhibition of activator of transcription (STAT3) activation. Previously, ...

This investigation deals with the effects of slip, magnetic field and non-Newtonian flow parameters on flow and heat transfer of an incompressible, electrically conducting fourth grade fluid past an infinite porous plate subject to suction and blowing, known as the Blasius flow problem. The heat transfer analysis has been carried out for two heating processes, namely, when the plate is assumed ...

A strengthened and generalized version of the standard Virtual Work Principle is shown to imply, in addition to bulk and boundary balances, a oneto-one correspondence between surface and edge hypertractions and hyperstrestress fields in second-grade continua. When edge hypertractions are constitutively taken null, the hyperstress is shown to take the form it has for a Navier-Stokes−α fluid, a r...

Magnetic field influence on unsteady free convection flow of a second grade fluid near an infinite vertical flat plate with ramped wall temperature embedded in a porous medium is studied. It has been observed that magnitude of velocity as well as skin friction in case of ramped temperature is quite less than the isothermal temperature. Some special cases namely: (i) second grade fluid in the ab...

background: reactive oxygen species (ros) are a group of free radicals that in excessive amounts have negative influence on sperm quality and function. objective: to study the effect of varicocele and its severity on the level of ros in infertile men with clinical varicocele. materials and methods: in this controlled prospective study, 42 men with clinically diagnosed left varicocele and 30 fer...

The magnetohydrodynamic MHD and rotating flow of second-grade fluid over a suddenly moved flat plate is investigated, where the second-grade fluid saturates the porous medium. The new exact solution is derived by using the Fourier sine and Laplace transforms. Many interesting available results in the literature are obtained as limiting cases of our solution. Finally, some graphical results are ...

An analytic solution of the flow of a third-grade fluid on a porous plate is constructed. The porous plate is executing oscillations in its own plane with superimposed injection or suction. An increasing or decreasing velocity amplitude of the oscillating porous plate is also examined. It is also shown that in case of third-grade fluid, a combination of suction/injection and decreasing/increasi...