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Generally medicines must be stored and handled in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidelines in order to maintain the quality of the product. Storage outside the recommended temperature range can result in chemical and physical changes to the product which may lead to a loss of efficacy and may cause harm to the patients. In order to maintain such recommended temperatures we generally use vapour compression refrigeration systems. The main drawback is emission of CFC compounds (refrigerants) like R22 upon leakage which could produce harmful effects on environment like ozone depletion. This work aims at developing alternate system for producing refrigeration effect called Thermo Electric Refrigeration. Thermoelectric cooling devices utilize the Peltier effect, whereby the passage of a direct electric current through the junction of two dissimilar conducting materials causes the junction to either cool down (absorbing heat) or warm up (rejecting heat), depending on the direction of the current. Finally using this thermoelectric principle a cold storage is fabricated for preserving the medicines and tested. The minimum cooling temperatures obtained are 10°C at 36°C ambient temperature in 210 minutes that is 3 hours 30 minutes.

Comments on the electrodynamics of moving bodies by Albert Einstein is based on Trickeries (Open letter to Professors, Teachers, Researchers and Students of Physics)

Maritime industry provide the basis for the growth and development of marine-related activities such as: ocean and coastal shipping, port services, offshore oil and gas, inshore and offshore fisheries, marine culture, renewal energy (current, wave, wind), naval defence and other marine related activities that need competence human capital enrolment to manage, explore and exploit this resources in a sustainable manner. Maritime education provides competence, highly skill and professional worker mainly in the shipping and port sector. Even though the maritime industry is dynamically changing their environment (Facilities, technology and system), the present maritime educations are of traditional manner with limited capacity of maritime facilities such as ports and ships. Until now, not much on training work has been done at rationalising the number and optimizing the facilities in the maritime education due to the escalating of the cost to maintain these facilities. Therefore the aims of this paper are to determine the rationale to develop an offshore integrated teaching port as a new approach for the maritime education system. The system via simulation approach is a tool for teaching maritime students how to be a professional and ready to work on a real ship or port environment. This approach will offer alternatives to an audience or maritime students hungry for fresh thinking in the maritime studies with a fresh training angle. In this paper we will mimicry as closely as possible on real port environment, duplicating everything in the real port operation towards an innovative approach in the Maritime Education and to determine the rationale of designing offshore Teaching Port.

Metaphors are ubiquitous in language. When researching metaphor in everyday language, metaphor researchers firstly need to identify metaphor in everyday language. One way is that metaphor researchers turn to naturally-occurring language. The metaphoric language used in everyday language reveals the ideology of the specific historical period of society. In this respect, colour plays an important role in convention metaphorical expressions in people's lives and daily communication. As a sub-category of metaphors, colour terms are widely used literally and metaphorically in different languages and may also reflect cultural identities of language users. Taking cognitive linguistics into account (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the present study aimed to investigate the metaphorical link which accounts for connotative meanings that is ascribed to colour terms. To do so, we collected Persian instances from some Persian dictionaries. The findings of this endeavor show that cultural orientations play a significant role in colour connotations in Persian, and subsequently filtering the relevant connotations of a particular metaphor.

This paper is aimed to discuss cordial graphs in the context of middle graph of a graph. We present here cordial labeling for the middle graphs of path, crown, star and tadpole.

Customer loyalty has become one of the key factors for strong company competitiveness. It has become a matter of concern, for both managers and researchers. Despite the relatively abundant literature on loyalty in Marketing, the notion of loyalty appears to be ambiguous. Our paper proposes a new conceptualization and an attempt to measure the concept of loyalty using a “relational approach”. It apprehends loyalty through customers’ responses towards “critical incidents” in the context of customer-bank relationships. In our research, we represent “critical incidents" by a “punctual dissatisfaction” and a “higher degree of competitiveness offered by competitors”. We use the Structural Equation Model to analyze the survey data given from 729 respondents from banks in Tunisia. The results have revealed five dimensions of customer loyalty: “tolerance of punctual dissatisfaction”, “resistance to competitors’ persuasion”, “integrative negotiation and claims”, “negative word of mouth”, and “opportunism”.

We are very happy to announce that from 30th June 2018, Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Language and Linguistics. Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish working as professor, Al-Quds Open University, Alwosta Branch. The appointment of Dr. Jaber Ibrahim Saleh Abu Shawish as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com.

DWe are very happy to announce that from 12th October 2017, Dr. Pankaj Sharma has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Mathematics. Dr. Pankaj Sharma working as Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, Noida International University, Gautam Budh Nagar, India. The appointment of Dr.Pankaj Sharma as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

In this work, radon concentration in the 22 air positions and 8 water samples of Neyshabur Turquoise (Firoozeh) mine has been measured with PRASSI system.
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminum, with the chemical formula CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈+4H₂O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem and ornamental stone for thousands of years because of its unique hue.
Radon is a radioactive gas with two radioisotopes- 220 and 222 mass number- has short decay half-life produced form ²³⁸U natural series and ²³²Th natural series. The radon gas can enter to the body via respiring, drinking and eating. The alpha emitted by this gas and other radiation emitted by its daughters increase the effective absorbed dose in respiratory and digestion systems.
We have measured and evaluated the effective radon dose rate from the air for the workers who cave in the mine effective dose per liter of drinking water samples. The result shows that the mean effective doses for air per hour and from water per liter are 1.2 ?Sv/h and 63 nSv/l, respectively.

The aim of this study was to determine the amount of input-output energy used in broiler production and to make an economic analysis for broiler production in different sizes of farms in Iran. Data were collected from 70 producers, using face to face questionnaire method in Ardabil province. The surveyed farms were classified into three groups of small (less than 15000bird), medium (15000 to 30000 bird) and large farms (more than 30000 bird). The results indicated the total average energy input and output of 154and 27 GJ (1000bird)-1, respectively. The highest share in energy consumption belonged to fuel (61%) followed by feed (35%) and electricity (3%). Also, the results showed that large farms use the least amount of total energy per 1000bird; while, the highest energy output was obtained from medium farms. The share of direct, indirect, renewable and non-renewable energies was 64.62%, 35.38%, 35.28% and 64.72% respectively. The average energy use ef?ciency and productivity were calculated 0.18 and 0.02 kg MJ-1, respectively. Cost analysis showed that total average cost of production was 3349 $ (1000bird)-1. The bene?t-cost ratio and productivity were 1.09 and 0.77 kg $-1, respectively. Mainly, the large farms had the highest energy ratio (0.21) and benefit to cost ratio (1.11); indicating a better management of energy and input consumptions in these farms.