objective(s):one strategy for the treatment of diabetes is inhibition of pancreatic α- amylase. plants contains different chemical constituents with potential for inhibition of α-amylase and hence maybe used as therapeutic. materials and methods: urtica dioica and juglans regia linn were tested for α-amylase inhibition. different concentrations of leaf aqueous extracts were incubated with enzym...

This study seeks to examine how a company can select the best intermediary for its Marketing channels with minimum of criteria and time. A theoretical framework is proposed based on the most important tasks of intermediary and the criteria to measure them. There are four basic tasks and thirty criteria in three independent levels. Subsequently, an exploratory case study in Iranian Food industry...

We describe a simple and rapid method for measuring pancreatic and salivary type amylases using the Hitachi 705 analyser. The determination is based on the inhibition of salivary amylase using an inhibitor isolated from wheat germ. The precision of the proposed method was very good: within-day precision varied from 0.4 to 2.5% (CV) and day-to-day precision from 2.2 to 3.7% (CV). The new applica...

background and objective: in the present study, bacillus polymyxa ncim no. 2539 was selected to utilize agro-industrial byproduct (orange peel) for amylase production under submerged fermentation conditions. material and methods: different agro-industrial byproducts like cane molasses, wheat bran, rice bran and orange peel were screened for maximum amylase production. amylase activitiy of bacil...

1. Rabbit antisera to purified rat parotid alpha-amylase were prepared. 2. The relationships between rat parotid-gland, pancreatic, serum and liver amylase were investigated by using the antisera in immunodiffusion, immunoelectrophoresis and immunoinhibition experiments. 3. Serum and liver amylase were identical, and very similar to parotid-gland amylase; pancreatic amylase was, however, quite ...

background & aim: singhnad guggulu is a traditional ayurvedic formula for detoxifying and rejuvenating the joints. the present study was to investigate the α-amylase inhibition and antioxidant activities of aqueous extract of singhnad guggul (aesg). experimental: α-amylase inhibition assay by dinitro-salicylic acid method and antioxidant activity by ferric chelating and ferrous reducing ass...

This research contributes to the understanding of how different practices of innovation management are related to midand long-term growth and profitability. Governments and regional development agencies invest relevant budgets to foster innovation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and improve their innovation management practices to make them more competitive. Nevertheless, it is not clear...

This chapter explores cognitive problem-solving style and its impact on user resistance, based on the premise that the greater the cognitive difference (cognitive gap) between users and developers, the greater the user resistance is likely to be. Mullany (1989, 2003) conducted an empirical study demonstrating this. This study contradicts the findings of Huber (1983) and supports Carey (1991) in...

We demonstrate that the concepts of competence destroying and competence enhancing are composed of two distinct constructs which, although correlated, separately characterize an innovation: new competence acquisition and competence enhancement/destruction. We develop scales to measure these constructs and show that new competence acquisition and competence enhancing/destroying are different fro...

The labor-intensive nature of harvest in the tree fruit industry makes it particularly sensitive to labor shortages. Technological innovation is thus critical in order to meet current demands without significantly increasing prices. This paper introduces a robotic system to help human workers during fruit harvest. A second-generation prototype is currently being built and simulation results dem...