paraquat (pq) is a widely used herbicide. however, a large number of cases of accidental or suicidal poisoning from pq has been reported. membrane damage induced by lipid peroxidation, inactivation of protein or damage to dna by radical formation have been suggested as toxicity mechanisms of pq. in the present work, the effects of atropine, propranolol, procainamide and dipyridamole on pq-induc...

Let E pq be the vertical homology Hg(E 0 p∗) of this complex. In other words, if Z pq = ker(d v pq), B pq = im(d v p,q+1), then E pq = Z 1 pq/B 1 pq. We note that d h induces maps E pq → E p−1,q as follows. The condition dd = −dd shows that d(Z pq) ⊆ Z p−1,q and d(B pq) ⊆ B p−1,q; therefore, there is a homomorphism d̃pq : E 1 pq → E p−1,q. Let E pq be the horizontal homology Hp(E ∗q) of this com...

The Micro-Grid (MG) stability is a significant issue that must be maintained in all operational modes. Usually, two control strategies can be applied to MG; V/f control and PQ control strategies. MGs with V/f control strategy should have some Distributed Generators (DGs) which have fast responses versus load changes. The Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) has this characteristic. The FESS, w...

Perturbed Quantization (PQ) steganography scheme is almost undetectable with the current steganalysis methods. We present a new steganalysis method for detection of this data hiding algorithm. We show that the PQ method distorts the dependencies of DCT coefficient values; especially changes much lower than significant bit planes. For steganalysis of PQ, we propose features extraction from the e...

This paper presents a new framework based on modified EMD method for detection of single and multiple PQ issues. In modified EMD, DWT precedes traditional EMD process. This scheme makes EMD better by eliminating the mode mixing problem. This is a two step algorithm; in the first step, input PQ signal is decomposed in low and high frequency components using DWT. In the second stage, the low freq...

The evenness and the values modulo 4 of lengths periods continued fraction expansions p 2p for p≡3(mod4) a prime are known. Here we prove similar results expansion pq, where p,q≡3(mod4) distinct primes.

In this paper we construct OD(4pq(q+1); pq, pq, pq, pq, pq, pq, pq, pq) for each core order q ≡ 3(mod 4), r ≥ 0 or q = 1, p odd, p ≤ 21 and p ∈ {25, 49}, and COD(2q(q + 1); q, q, q, q) for any prime power q ≡ 1(mod 4) (including q = 1), r ≥ 0.

Bachground: Paraquat (PQ) intoxication manifests with pulmonary edema and fibrosis, heart failure, hepatic failure, and sometimes convulsions. In severe cases, the patients may die within the early hours. At best conditions, the conventional therapeutic methods can only save less than 50% of the victims of intentional PQ intoxication. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of new t...

INTRODUCTION Antimalarial resistance has led to a global policy of artemisinin-based combination therapy. Despite growing resistance chloroquine (CQ) remained until recently the official first-line treatment for falciparum malaria in Pakistan, with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) second-line. Co-treatment with the gametocytocidal primaquine (PQ) is recommended for transmission control in South A...

Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is used to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality, especially in vulnerable groups such as children and pregnant women. IPT with the fixed dose combination of piperaquine (PQ) and dihydroartemisinin (DHA) is being evaluated as a potential mass treatment to control and eliminate artemisinin-resistant falciparum malaria. This study explored alternative DHA-...