the potential sources of cr (vi) are various effluents from metallurgy, electroplating, leather tanning, textile dyeing, paint, ink, and aluminum manufacturing industries. these industrial effluents can contain cr (vi), in the concentration range of 10 to 100 mg/l (nakano et al 2000), which is much higher than the standard limit; 0.5 mg/l in industrial wastewater (epa). in aqueous systems, chro...

The success of assisted reproduction, although gradually increasing over the years, is still less than satisfactory. Many couples have benefited from this treatment; many have also been left frustrated following multiple failed attempts (Bulent Urman et al. 2005). Repeated implantation failure (RIF), defined as three or more failed IVF attempts or failure of IVF after cumula- Abstracts of the 5...

1. introduction current statistical methods may be unable to accurately predict recurrence intervals of rare, large magnitude floods. the usual procedure involves extrapolation from gauged hydrological records documenting 30–40 year records of observed (normally small) floods to the estimation of the quantifies and recurrence intervals of very large, rare floods. this conventional approaches be...

Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), which has long been used to evaluate the status of the axillary nodes, is known to be associated with a high morbidity rate (Kell et al., 2010). Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has successfully replaced ALND for evaluation of the axilla in breast cancer patients with clinically negative axilla (Kell et al., 2010). However, ALND performed in SLNBpositive ...

Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is a surgical technique produced from combination of endoscopy and laparoscopy to diagnose and treat abdominal diseases, characterized by absence of abdominal incisions (Seid et al., 2008). The NOTES approach has several proposed benefits including potentially decreased abdominal pain, wound infections and hernia formation (Seid et al., 20...

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Raman spectroscopy has emerged as a fast, non-invasive, analytical method for the detec‐ tion and quantification of adulterants in many fields (Wong et al., 2007; Weng et al., 2003; Muik et al., 2003; Micklander et al., 2002; Peica et al., 2005; Rubayiza et al., 2005; Ellis et al., 2005; Paradkar et al., 2001; Abalde-Cela et al., 2009; Mulvihill et al., 2008; Zhou et al., 2006). Although signal...