Background & Aim: Essential oils are isolated from different sections of plants such as flowers, seeds, leaves, stems and roots. Essential oils are applied extensively in producing of perfumes, cosmetics, foods, beverages and confectioneries and as ingredients of disinfectants and insecticides. Experimental: Essential oil are obtained by several isolation methods, such as hydrodistillation (HD...

Background: Local ablative treatments play an important role for patients who cannot be treated surgically. Radiofrequency ablation is a well-established alternative to surgical treatment of thyroid nodules, however it also has disadvantages. Microwave ablation (MWA) is a new minimally invasive treatment promising several improvements. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the eff...

with considering importance of post harvest operation on quality criteria of pot marigold (calendula offıcinalis l.), the effect of flower nutrient source (organic inputs such as cattle manure (25 t ha-1), municipal waste compost (20 t ha-1), spent mushroom compost (15 t ha-1), vermicompost (15 t ha-1) and control) as well as different drying methods including microwave (300, 600 and 900 w), ov...

today special attention has been paid to the microbial quality of medicinal plants.one of the operations in order to maintain the quality of plants is drying which may also affect the quantity and quality of the essential oil. in order to evaluate drying process effect in peppermint,the experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design with 4 treatments and 3 replications. the treatm...

X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to investigate the structural and dynamical effects of microwave fields on tetragonal single crystals of hen egg-white lysozyme at a resolution of 2.0 A. Using a modified slab-line waveguide allows on-line XRD to be carried out while the protein crystal is exposed to well defined microwave fields. High microwave power levels mainly lead to increased, but largely...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Disinfection of prostheses with chemical solutions has deleterious effects on dentures. The appropriate power setting of microwave for disinfection, without affecting denture base properties, is a controversy. PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the effect of simulated microwave disinfection at a recommended power setting on the mechanical properties of three denture base hea...

BACKGROUND Microwave endometrial ablation is an effective treatment for dysfunctional uterine bleeding. Patients with leiomyomata, including submucosal leiomyomata up to 3 cm, may also be treated with microwave endometrial ablation. CASES A 46-year-old woman with multiple leiomyomata and menometrorrhagia underwent microwave endometrial ablation. Two months after microwave endometrial ablation...

A survey of the major techniques used in the design of microwave filters is presented in this paper. It is shown that the basis for much fundamental microwave filter theory lies in the realm of lumped-element filters, which indeed are actually used directly for many applications at microwave frequencies as high as 18 GHz. Many types of microwave filters are discussed with the object of pointing...

LWP can be retrieved from the microwave signature emitted by cloud droplets. Microwave retrievals of cloud LWP are not applicable over land because of the strong and highly variable microwave emission of the land surface. The emission from ocean surfaces is relatively weak and less variable so cloud LWP can be estimated from satellite observed microwave radiances. However, the accuracy is signi...