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Diverticulum of the man urethra (DMU) is a rare clinical entity. It is characterized by a separate saccular dilatation that communicates with the urethra, the origin is essentially gained. The authors report a clinical case of diverticulum of the man urethra acquired after endoscopic internal urethrotomy for urethral strictures. The suspected diagnosis was confirmed by retrograde and voiding urethrocystography as well as urethrocystoscopy. The treatment consisted of excision of the diverticulum with reduction urethroplasty. Epidemiological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects are reviewed.

We are very happy to announce that from 9th September 2016, Dr. Gita Rani has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Chemistry. Dr. Gita Rani working as Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Barnala Road, Sirsa, 125055, Haryana, India. The appointment of Dr. Gita Rani as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

BCI (Brain Computer Interface) roles as a machine that provides direct communication between brain and computer. These kinds of machines can help people with physical disability, does their daily tasks as well as healthy people. In these machines, the brain signals are recorded from the scalp and will be prepared for analyzing in three steps of preprocessing, feature selection and classification that what kinds of tasks have been imagined. In BCI applications a big challenge is to improve classification accuracy in parallel with the computation time. In this paper, in preprocessing level we filtered the samples of each electrode with band pass digital Butterworth filter with cutoff frequency of 0.5 to 30 HZ. In the next level, the features are extracted from some famous fractal dimension estimation of the signal. These fractal features are Katz and Higuchi. In the classification stage we used ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System) classifier and compared it with three strong classifiers as FKNN (Fuzzy k-Nearest Neighbors), LDA (Linear Discriminate Analysis) and SVM (Support Vector Machine). We found ANFIS with Higuchi fractal features has the most classification accuracy (88%) among other investigated methods, but its speed is rather low among them.

Effect of chemical reaction on free convection MHD flow through a porous medium bounded by vertical surface is studied here. The governing equations involved in the present analysis are solved by the two-term perturbation method. The velocity, temperature, concentration, skin friction and Nusselt number are studied for different parameters like thermal Grash of number, mass Grash of number, Schmidt number, magnetic field parameter, Permeability parameter, Prandtl number, Eckert number and chemical reaction parameter.

A primarily diagnostic tool for cardiovascular diseases ECG , a non invasive technique generally used during acquisition and transportation. Noises like channel noise, baseline wander noise, muscle artifacts, electrode motion, often embedded with ECG signal. In this paper a methology to overcome from channel noise embedded during the transportation of ECG signal, proposed in this methodology DFT of noisy ECG signal calculated using fast fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. The experimental result demonstrate the proposed method is superior to other with higher SNR and lower RMSE factor, performance comparison at 1.25 dB is demonstrated. Keyword: ECG, Channel noise, Gaussian function, FFT, Wavelet transform, S-Transform.

In the work present, describes an attempt has been made to study the effect of temperature on plain fatigue behavior of polyester reinforced with woven of fiber glass manufactured as a laminate [0/90]3.Fatigue tests were carried out at constant and variable temperature environment. All fatigue tests were employed at stress ratio R=-1 and under constant fiber volume fraction (VF) of 33%. The results indicated that the tensile and the fatigue strength decreased with increasing temperature up to at 60 ⁰C. The fatigue strength reduction factor (FLRF) at 60 ^oC was (46%) compared to (RT) environment. A nonlinear fatigue damage model was proposed taking into account the effect of temperature sequence and fatigue loading. This model was calibrated against experimental data under different thermal conditions. The final conclusion which derived from this work was the verification of the model results with the experimental ones.

In the world of today when visual and digital have taken over the young minds most of us a teachers of English resort to screening movies based on canonical texts to engage the minds as well as interests of our young students. However, it is a highly complicated and problematic area as most movies based on novels or even dramas as canonical as that of Shakespeare are adaptations. Further, transference from page to screen, from one medium to another, places a lot of aspects of the text at a tangent making it far from a simple practice. The present paper proposes to study the problematic of reading a text in cinema with reference to the movies based on Jane Austen novels. The aim is to show that whether the movie is an adaptation or a faithful rendering of the text, awareness on the part of the teacher and a sensitization of the students to the difference in medium are the pre requisites of this practice.

Organic agriculture is the cultivation of crops without chemical pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically-modified organisms. Organic farmers rely primarily on renewable resources and on-farm inputs such as compost, manure and bio-pesticides. The major objective of the research is to discover the future prospects for organic agricultural products. The non-probability convenience sampling was used for drawing samples from the universe. As per the review of literature and the results of present study, there exists a growing demand for organic agricultural products in India.

The study investigated the health implication of adequate meal for under 5 children and sustainable human resource development in Orashi region of Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design for a population of under 5 children and teachers/minders across private Nursery schools in the study area. Multistage stratified random sampling technique (in five phases) was used in the selection of 240 under 5 children, 72teachers/minders from 24 randomly selected Private Nursery schools and 72 Nutritionists from Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Port Harcourt. Three instruments via “Children Adequate Meal Checklist” (CAMC) administered to under 5 children aided by their teachers/minders, “Sustainable Human Resource Development Inventory” (SHRDI) administered to teachers/minders and “Nutritionists Adequate Meal Inventory” (NAMI) administered to Nutritionists were validated by 2 Home Economics experts, with the reliability coefficients of .571, .856 and .684 for the CAMC, SHRDI and NAMI instruments respectively were used. Datacollected was analyzed using frequency count, simple percentage, mean and standard deviation to answer research questions 1, 3, 4 and 6 and multiple linear regression analysis to answer research questions 2 and 5 at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that appropriate feeding pattern with food like: apples, cakes, eggs, milk, vegetables, bread and margarine, rice and tomato sauce, etc. filled with essential nutrients such as calcium, minerals, vitamins, protein, iron, water, fats and oil, and carbohydrates have traits that could lead to thesustainable human resource development of the under 5 children in Orashi region of Rivers State Nigeria. The study recommended amongst others that parents should provide their children with foods rich in calcium, minerals, vitamins, protein, iron, water, fats and oil, and carbohydrates rich foods that aid proper digestion, absorption and utilization, and commensurate growth, productivity and human development. 

The present review deals with the interaction of hepatitis C virus (HCV) with various host factors and the underlying mechanisms involved in liver pathology during HCV infection. The persistence of virus after HCV infection causing chronic hepatitis in high majority of patients was explained in terms of host immune response varying with mutating nature of HCV virus. High scale variability in HCV genome arising of frequent mutation favours HCV to escape immune mediated eradication and to persist in host causing continued liver cell injury. HCV shows pathogenic effect via its role in several metabolic changes and inducing reactive phenomenon including hepatic steatosis, oxidative stress and insulin resistance in HCV infected patients. The structural and non-structural components of HCV virus, particularly, HCV-core, NS3 and NS5A proteins were involved in causing all these reactive state. Moreover, HCV-genotypes showed their varying effect on overall HCV pathogenesis. The HCV core protein from HCV-genotype-3 had close association with causing hepatic steatosis, increasing oxidative stress and inducing insulin resistance in HCV infected patients. All these reactions, ie. hepatic steaotis, oxidative stress and insulin resistance play important role in progression / regression of disease. However, many more studies are still needed to understand it in full measure for developing an effective anti-viral or anti-infection therapy.