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Due to major changes taken place in the banking system of Iran, Bank Mellat has faced new challenges: restructuring state sectors into private ones through privatization, an increase in their rivals, the intense competition to obtain more market share, bringing about more expenses and costs as to four bank deposits, etc., has led the bank to tends to increase the commission (the income from services’ commission). In this paper, the researcher has collected the required information through interviews with experts as well as scientific and library studies. In the first section of this study, to determine the potential income from commission on Mellat bank services, strategic planning (SWOT model) and assessment models of internal factors (IFE) as well as external factors (EFE) were employed. Due to the fact that in assessment models of internal (IFE) and external factors (EFE), the bank has obtained a score of 2.25 and 1.75, it can be argued that the bank has not successful in making use o its appropriate capacity in the field of services and non-shared revenues.In the last section of this paper, to enhance the capacity of non-shared services of Mellat bank, various strategies SO, ST, WO and WT are suggested. Among aforementioned strategies, the defensive strategy (WT) is selected as the main strategy of the bank through which 12 major factors are presented by the researcher contributing to the self-defense strategy.

To investigate the expression of CDK6 in odontogenic lesions. In this study 77 odontogenic lesions consist of 19 unicystic ameloblastoma (UA), 18 solid ameloblastoma (SA), 20 odontogenic keratocysts (OKC), and 20 dentigerous cysts were reviewed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) for CDK6 staining. Frequency of positive cytoplasmic CDK6 expression in ameloblastoma (solid and unicystic) and DCs, were recorded as, 100% and 15% respectively which show a statistically significant different (p=0.000). Positive nuclear CDK6 in SAs and UAs was 100% and 94.7% respectively which was significantly higher than DCs and OKCs (p=0.000). Mean percentage of both cytoplasmic (72.71 ± 10.0) and nuclear (45.0 ± 10.7) CDK6 staining in SAs was significantly higher than other lesions (p=0.000). Our study demonstrated that overexpression of the nuclear CDK6 and dysregulation of the PRb pathway play a role in the oncogenesis of ameloblastoma but not DCs and OKCs and might be one of the reasons for aggressive behavior of ameloblastoma.

This study wishes to examine and validate the ‘broken window’ hypothesis among the fifty one states in the United States. The chosen method for this analysis is Johansen cointegration test to test for cointegration, and if any cointegrating vector is found, we proceed to test for Granger causality based on VECM. We test whether property crime (proxy for minor crime) leads to violent crime (proxy for major crime) in the fifty one states with respect to the period 1960 to 2007. Result of the study indicates that violent crime and property crime are cointegrated in forty eight states out of fifty one states. Further analysis to test for the validity of the broken window hypothesis provides stunning result whereby we found that the hypothesis is indeed valid in forty four out of forty eight states.

Fetal protection is an issue that has been outlined in human societies and it has been considered in many legal systems throughout the world. In Iranian criminal law, fetus has a human personality and is respectable and protective. Any violation from this law is legally forbidden and is considered as a crime because like other human beings, fetus has rights such as rights of living and being healthy. So protection of fetal rights is not limited to support of its life by abortion ban or other practices resulting in life deprivation rather it includes protection of fetus’s health right.

The traditional medicines (i.e. herbal medicines / Spices) are cost effective & have negligible side effects. There is a need for credible research to investigate the proper use, adverse effects and precautions associated with these products. Hence, the current study was carried out to observe the hepatoprotective effect of Curcuma Longa (C.L) in Nitro-Methane Sulfonamide (N-MS) induced hepatotoxicity. 40 male albino wistar rats were divided into four groups. In group A, normal diet was given for 09 days while in group B, N- MS was given for 09 days followed by CL powder for next 09 days; while CL powder for 09 days followed by N- MS for next 09 days was used in group C. Group D received N-MS in adjunct with C.L powder for 09 days. Blood samples from each group were taken for biochemical analysis of serum levels of ALT, AST, Alkaline Phosphatase and GGT. The results of present study have concluded that the administration of C.L significantly offered protection against damaging effects of N-MS.

A data acquisition system is a device designed to measure various parameters. The purpose of the data acquisition system is generally the analysis of the data and the improvement in accuracy of measurements. The data acquisition system is normally electronics based, and it is made of hardware and software. The hardware part is made of sensors, signal conditioners & data acquisition card and computer. The data acquisition system increases efficiency of measurement and lowers the cost for test, through easy to integrate software like Visual Basic. With this system, Engineers can use graphical representation to meet their specific needs – very different from the conventional and traditional measurements. Additionally, data acquisition system capitalized on the ever-increasing performance of personal computers. In test, measurement, and control, the system experiences up to a 10 times increase in efficiency at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of time, of traditional measurement system. This Dissertation work involves testing of internal combustion engine using data acquisition system . For this the data is acquired from internal combustion engine and send to computer after required conditioning. The parameters of internal combustion engine which can be measured are speed, load, temperature and vibrations . The graphical display on the computer screen can be made by using any software like Visual Basic . This is an attempt to develop a Computerized Test Rig for measurements of Speed , Load & Temperature, Vibrations using Software like Visual Basic , Hardware PCI 1050 Card with Signal Conditioning using INA128 IC and Sensors like Proximity Sensor, Load Cell and RTD .

A design and development of a simple monopole antenna based on metamaterial resonators for multiband operation is presented. The antenna operates in the frequency range of 2.97 GHz to 4.25GHz, 4.6 GHz to 5.24 GHz, 7.15 GHz to 10.41GHz, with impedance bandwidth of 35.45%, 13.01% and 37.13%, respectively. The split ring resonators (SRR) acts as metamaterial resonators which are embedded on the planar monopole that resonates for multiple frequency bands. The antenna shows the good impedance matching and radiation performance. The measured result is agreed well with the simulated result. The proposed antenna finds their application in the different wireless communications such as Wi-MAX, Wi-Fi and Satellite Communication.

This paper will presents a method of finding a relations between similar speeches signals which are speaker independent taken from common set of samples of Chhattisgarhi language and dialects commonly spoken at different regions of Chhattisgarh. The objective of this paper is to detect similar and dissimilar patterns of different Chhattisgarhi dialects through wavelet analysis methods which are useful for complex speech signal analysis. Through wavelet transforms parameters are extracted from speech corpus and then relations are established.

Telecom industry is rapidly growing in Pakistan; number of telecom users is increasing day by day. This study focused on exploring the factors which impact on satisfaction of telecom user. In order to meet the objective of the study, there were 550 individuals were selected by using simple random sampling techniques and structured questionnaire is used as data collection tool. Descriptive analysis, Correlation analysis and regression analysis were used for analysis purpose. Findings of the study revealed that customer expectation, perceived value and corporate image were the significant factors which impact on customers’ satisfaction. This study is very informative and helpful for managers and policy makers of telecom sector.

The optimal tilt angle of solar photovoltaic panel in Ilorin, Nigeria was determined. The solar panel was first mounted at 0o to the horizontal and after ten minutes, the voltage and current generated with the corresponding atmospheric temperature were recorded. The same procedure was repeated for 2o to 30o at a succession of 2o at ten minutes time interval over the entire measurement period. The result obtained shows that the average optimal tilt angle at which a solar panel will be mounted for maximum power performance at fixed position in Ilorin is 22o. This optimum angle of tilt of the solar panel and the orientation are dependent on the month of the year and the location of the site of study.