in this study, we have investigated the effects of mix of tomato (solanum lycopersicum) & carrot) daucus carota ( and red bell pepper )capsicum annuum( as a natural pigment source and astaxanthin as synthetic pigment sources on the skin colour of cichlid fish (astronotus ocellatus sp., agassiz, 1831), which are generally white with red patches in the dorsal skin. the fish were fed diets con...

We consider the spectral properties of a class of regularized estimators of (large) empirical covariance matrices corresponding to stationary (but not necessarily Gaussian) sequences, obtained by banding. We prove a law of large numbers (similar to that proved in the Gaussian case by Bickel and Levina), which implies that the spectrum of a banded empirical covariance matrix is an efficient esti...

Significant socio-economic burden of colonic motility disorders necessitates in-depth analysis of this pathology. Current analysis techniques are based on diameter measurements of colonic lumen on cine-MR images. Interleaved multi-plane acquisition makes it difficult to perform simultaneous measurements on the line of plane intersections due to the out-of-plane motion (OPM) caused by respiratio...

Colleges and universities compete for students, faculty, and business, industry, and research partnerships with quality programs, strong faculty, research opportunities, affordable cost, and high student success factors. Yet, at the infrastructure level, most of these institutions provide many similar information technology services and support. On top of this, many of these institutions strugg...

this paper is concerned with emotional design, which can influence user experience and combine it with happiness and enjoyment. emotions have a crucial role in the human ability to understand the world. the human emotions play an important role in what people think and how they act. it can be said that, emotions influence the human behavior. today, due to the technological improvement, designin...

in the present study, advanced oxidation treatment, uv/ was applied to decolourisation of acid orange 8 (ao8). the uv radiation was carried out with a 15 w low-pressure mercury lamp. kinetic model for the decolourisation of the dye was developed based on experimental results and known chemical and photochemical reactions. the observed kinetic reaction constant was determined and correlated as a...