Background:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) is still a major problem globally and especially in Africa. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to TB in the past and studies have found vitamin D deficiency to be common among Ugandan TB patients. The functional activity of vitamin D is dependent on the genotype of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphic genes. Recent findings have indicated that VD...

the optimization of process conditions for the degradation of acid blue 193 by uv/peroxydisulfate was investigated using response surface methodology (rsm). the effects of four parameters namely initial k2s2o8 concentration, uv irradiation, temperature, and initial dye concentration on two process responses, color removal and the rate constants of the first-order kinetic equations, were investi...

in this research, adsorption of dibenzothiophene (dbt) as a model of sulfur containing material has been studied by pb exchanged y-zeolite under different experimental conditions. the adsorption was kinetically fast and high adsorption capacity was obtained. the equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed using langmuir and freunlich isotherm models. the corresponding parameters and correlation c...

Background: In the present study, the photocatalytic (TiO2/UV) batch process has been used for the methyl orange (MO) degradation. Methods: In the catalyst range from 0.25 to 1.5 g/L, the optimum concentration of TiO2 was found to be 0.5 g/L. The kinetic behavior of MO degradation has been evaluated using the non-linear form of pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order models. Results: The g...

Abstract The article situates the Funds of Knowledge (FoK) approach and Identity (FoI) theory in context eco-functional perspective. It proposes to understand “funds” as external factors extra-cerebral organizations, both refer products historically accumulated social labor. Furthermore, lays out that similar dynamic features developing functional psychic funds knowledge identity have be consid...

The paper starts with an examination and critique of Tarski’s wellknown proposed explication of the notion of logical operation in the type structure over a given domain of individuals as one which is invariant with respect to arbitrary permutations of the domain. The class of such operations has been characterized by McGee as exactly those definable in the language L∞,∞. Also characterized sim...

We propose a simple but powerful approach to the verification of parameterised systems. The approach is based on modelling the reachability between parameterized states as deducibility between suitable encodings of states by formulae of first-order predicate logic. To establish a safety property, that is non-reachability of unsafe states, the finite model finder is used to find a finite counter...

Hydrodynamics can be formulated in terms of a perturbative series derivatives the temperature, chemical potential, and flow velocity around an equilibrium state. Different formulations for this have been proposed over years, which consequently led to development various hydrodynamic theories. In work, we discuss relativistic generalizations expansions put forward by Chapman Enskog, Hilbert, usi...