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We are very happy to announce that from 14th May 2014, Ms. Marwa Abdul Muhsien Hassan AL-Janabi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Semiconductors Science, Gas Sensors and Piezosensors Application. Ms. Marwa Abdul Muhsien Hassan AL-Janabi is currently working as Department of Physics, Al -Mustansiriyah University, College of Science, USA. The appointment of Ms. Marwa Abdul Muhsien Hassan AL-Janabi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

The concepts of cultural investment and lifestyle are subjected to one of the most common attitude in the recent decades. The cultural investment is the collection of the knowledge and advantages which individuals apply and preserve it to reach to their social situation; and also, the lifestyle is subjected to the collection of approaches, values and behavior patterns; in most cases, the elements of a life are gathered along together forming numbers of people; thus, the lifestyle can be defined as the social classes and groups which people follow these behavior, beliefs, norms and social values and patterns emerging particular establishment of cultural/ educational symbols possessed to themselves as their social class. The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of cultural investment on the lifestyle; the study is carried out as a scale-based approach. The required data were selected and gathered by a questionnaire from a 260 people sample of secondary school students in Markazi province; in addition, the study was taken up as a multi-step cluster sample. In the study, the theories of Anthony Giddens and Bourdieu were used to assess and measure the cultural investment and lifestyle. According to the indices like body management and consumptive norms forming lifestyle and going to movie, listening to the music, reading a book, going to the concert, visiting museum and photo gallery forming the cultural investment. Due to the main aim of the present study, the evaluation of cultural investment and lifestyle were strongly emphasized and the finding indicated that there is a positive significant relationship between respondents cultural investment with each dimensions of their lifestyle.

During centuries many scholars and professionals in translation have suggested many theories in general sense and the best approach was always a controversial issue. In this paper, an attempt has been made to define theory in scientific sense which is totally different from its general sense. It shows that based on lack of necessary features of scientific theory, there is no translation theory and what exist are just different approaches and models to translation. Then approaches based on different insights such as philological, linguistic and sociosemiotic insights will be studied.

The present study was conducted to determine the count of the number of adipocytes subcutaneous and intra-abdominal compartments and association with cardiometabolic diseases. Cross sectional study. March 2012 to April 2013 at the Departments of Anatomy, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Isra University Hospital, Hyderabad. A sample of 80 subjects was selected through non-probability purposive sampling including obese and non obese female undergoing elective cesarean section. Adipose tissue from subcutaneous and intra-abdominal sites was obtained during surgery. Tissue sections of 4? thickness were stained with haematoxylin and eosin (H & E). Counting of the number of adipocytes per unit area was carried out through ocular grid. The data was analyzed on Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. A p-value of ? 0.05 was taken statistically significant. The number of adipocytes in obese and non-obese from subcutaneous and intra-abdominal compartments showed significant differences. (p?0.01). An increased number of adipocytes were observed in intra-abdominal adipose tissue (IAT) from abdomen of obese compared to non-obese and subcutaneous compartment (p=0.0001). Significant differences were observed in obese and non-obese for the diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, hypertension and dyslipidemia. (p<0.01). An increased number of adipocytes were observed in intra-abdominal adipose tissue and was associated with cardiometabolic diseases.

The aim of this paper is to examine the validity of impact factor as a metric for evaluation of scientific output of researchers, laboratories, departments and their institutions. The opinion that Impact Factor (IF) is an index that expresses the quality and scientific value of a given researcher/author; departments and their institutions is examined against the critical view point in clinical medicine. Sociological and statistical factors are also considered. Attempt is also made to elucidate on what citation exactly should count for quality in determination of values of IF. Citation frequency as a measure of journal's importance to its end users is considered to be a plausible theory in clinical medicine. Sociological and statistical factors are also seen to have effects on values of IF across subject areas. It is also found out that a count of citations to error in calculation of IF value does not reflect a true value of quality. Appropriate count that reflects quality should be used to compute IF values. Many previous critiques have developed to undermine the use of IF as a metric for evaluation of scientific output of researchers/authors. This article forms the first attempt to identify that all citations to an article do not necessarily count for quality. In this context, the article is original and of great potentials.

We are very happy to announce that from 14th May 2014, Dr. Haji Khan Khoharo has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Physiology. Dr. Haji Khan Khoharo is currently working as Consultant Physician/Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences, Isra University, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. The appointment of Dr. Haji Khan Khoharo as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

We are very happy to announce that from 9th August 2014, Dr. R. Ganapathi Raman has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Growth and characterization of crystals and Nano Materials. Dr. R. Ganapathi Raman currently working as Assistant Professor of Physics, Noorul Islam Center for Higher Education, Noorul Islam University, Kumaracoil, Thuckelay -629 180, Kanyakumari Dt, Tamilnadu, India. The appointment of Dr. R. Ganapathi Raman as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

We are very happy to announce that from 21st November 2014, Dr.M.Jagadishnaik has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Agriculture, Entomology and Applied Zoology. Dr.M.Jagadishnaik currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur District, India. The appointment of Dr.M.Jagadishnaik 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.

We are very happy to announce that from 26th March 2014, Dr.Mehadi Vatan Parast has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Human Geography. Dr.Mehadi Vatan Parast is currently working as Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, Quchan Branch, Quchan, Iran. The appointment of Dr.Mehadi Vatan Parast 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. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

An experiment was carried out at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources management, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki in order to evaluate productivity of a degraded ultisol amended with different animal wastes in Abakaliki. The field was laid out in randomized complete block design (RCBD). There were four treatments viz poultry droppings (PD), Swine Waste (SW), Cow Dung (CD) and Control (C) applied at 12 ha-1, respectively. These treatments were replicated five times. Maize hybrid (Oba super II) and groundnut (Arachis hypogea) were used as test crops. Core and auger samples were collected at 0 – 20 cm depth before and after planting for pre and post planting soil properties determination. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and means separated with Fisher’s least significant difference. Results showed that bulk density, total porosity, moisture content, hydraulic conductivity, aggregate stability and mean weight diameter were significantly (P<0.05) higher in poultry droppings amended plots than in control. The texture of soil remained sandy loam. The studied chemical properties showed no significant treatments effect except magnesium that was significantly (P<0.05) higher in PD and CD amendments relative to control. Cow dung treatment significantly (P<0.05) depressed Na compared to control and other animal wastes amendments. Bulk density was lower by 5 and 7% under poultry droppings compared to cow dung and swine waste treatments. Total porosity and hydraulic conductivity were 9,7,4 and 11% higher in PD relative to cow dung and swine wastes amendments. Available P, total N and organic matter were higher under PD treatment by 8, 17, 18, 12, 17 and 27% compared to SW and CD amended plots, respectively. Maize grain and groundnut yields significantly (P<0.05) increased in all animal wastes amended plots relative to control. Animal wastes enhanced physical properties of soil and yields of crops more than chemical ones. Poultry droppings that proved more superior compared to others could be recommended for improving productivity of a degraded soil in the study area.