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This study was conducted to evaluate aqueous & ethanolic extracts of Ficus racemosa for wound healing properties in presence of dexamethasone depressed healing conditions. Reversal mechanism of dexamethasone depressed wound healing properties by Ficus racemosa was determined using the incision and excision wound model. Both the extract reverted the dexamethasone depressed healing effectively when compared with dexamethasone treated group. The results were comparatively significant (p ? 0.05).

This paper investigates the extent to which the electorates’ culture plays a role in parliamentary elections in Webuye Constituency, Kenya. The main assumption is that the electorates’ culture influences peoples' attitudes and choices. Three objectives form the basis of the paper. These are: to assess the role of the electorates’ moral values in parliamentary elections, to examine the role of electorates’ patriarchal values in parliamentary elections and to investigate the impact of electorates’ oral traditions in campaigns and voting patterns during parliamentary elections. The Interaction Interpretive theory is the main tool used to probe various aspects and elements of politics. The paper is organized into three sections. Section one covers the background information to the paper, statement of the problem, objectives of the paper, literature review and theoretical framework. Research methodology, results and discussion are in sections two, three and four respectively. Primary data is collected from oral interviews, observation and questionnaires while secondary data is collected mainly from written materials like published books, periodicals, newspapers, journals and Internet. The target population is randomly and in specific cases purposively sampled. The findings are presented according to each research objective mainly using tables. Percentages are computed to give a clear statistical picture of the state of issues under investigation.

Drought is one of the natural disasters which annually cause to millions of dollars damage to agricultural communities around the world. In recent decades among the natural disasters, frequency of drought in terms of drought intensity, duration, total affected area, life and economic losses and social impacts on community, had more effect on human populations than other natural disasters. The most important effect and consequences of drought is water shortages for various purposes like agriculture. Qanats (aqueducts) construction and use of them is an ancient method for supplying water in Iran. In this way, without spending energy and only through the force of gravity, a part of required water of agriculture, drinking water and residential area has been supplied since long time ago. Using this method of water supply after development of equipments for drilling of semi-deep and deep wells is reduced, and in some parts of the country construction of new Qanats has stopped. Uncontrolled withdrawal of groundwater by excessive exploitation of wells with increasing of wells number and lack of natural recharge, for various reasons like changing of land use and climate changes, cause to decreasing of Qanats water yield or even dried them. So, the purpose of this study is analyzing the effects of watershed management operations like artificial recharge to increase the discharge of Qanats using flood control. In this study, the quantitative and qualitative data of Qanats water evaluated where artificial recharge of aquifers has done using trend analysis of hydrological behavior changes in selected Qanats and results of changes in water yield of Gambleh and Noh Abad Qanats, before and after of artificial recharge, including construction of recharge pools and flood spreading, during 1995 to 2010 showed that discharge of Qanats from 5.6 and 5.8 liters per second in 1995 (before artificial recharge), increased to 12.5 and 8.3 liters per second in 2010 respectively which had an effective role in reducing of drought effects in study area.

The presented paper treats as one dimensional inverse heat conduction problem using boundary integral method. Here we try to give an algorithm for the inverse heat conduction problem by using basic solution. To verify our algorithm, we consider a numerical problem and then solve it.

Some construction methods of 3-resolvable regular group divisible designs based on incidence matrix of known affine resolvable balanced incomplete block designs and 3-resolvable group divisible type partially balanced incomplete block designs with unequal block sizes within each resolution set based on incidence matrix of known symmetric balanced incomplete block designs are proposed with illustrations.

Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies that will lead to the next generation of Internet. It provides optimized and efficient computing through enhanced collaboration, agility, scalability, and availability. In this paper, the evolution of the Cloud is discussed, the cloud computing model is explained, a set of cloud computing infrastructure metrics is listed, the cloud service model architectures are described, exemplary implementations of cloud service models are analyzed, and intriguing facts about cloud computing status and future are shared.

Strontium titanate has been synthesized successfully by using solution growth and Chemical solution deposition method in powder and thin film form.The chemical composition of the resulted samples were analyzed by EDX and the morphology was observed by Scanning electron microscope. The structure and phase composition were characterized by X-ray diffraction.

The aim of current study is to investigate the relationship between social capital & the Knowledge management in the Iranian national Oil refining and distribution Company. our model have four dimensions of knowledge management and a model for social capital. The statistical sample of this study was the manager and Employees of Iranian`s national oil refining and distribution company, Based on the proposed research model, we have examined the research hypothesis, which Consisted of one main hypothesis and five sub hypothesis. At last, the research hypotheses were tested By Spearman Correlation Factor and four hypotheses were accepted and one of them weren’t accepted And their significance factor was confirmed. Afterward, by the multi factor data analyze, it was noticed That the independent variables of research has variables of research have multi dimension correlation with km as a dependent variable.

The wide application of organotin compounds have caused considerable amounts of these compounds to enter the different ecosystems. Organotins have been of environmental concerns due to their direct introduction into the environment, bioaccumulation, and toxicities even to non-target organisms both aquatic and terrestrial. They are notable sources of pollution and may be of ecotoxicological effects on the various ecosystems. It is not only the particular organisms that may be affected but the whole ecosystems. They are very persistent and bioavailable to biota even after a long time. The persistence of organotins in polluted ecosystem is a function of adsorption and degradation processes. Hence, this review which aim at providing an overview of the environmental persistence of organotin compounds.

Entrepreneurship development is increasingly becoming important in economic growth in many countries. The majority of workers in the developing World cluster in small and micro enterprises in the private sectors. They may be on account workers in services or employees in small and medium-sized firms in manufacturing. Entrepreneurship and investment influences the rate and linkages, which develop in an economy, the labor demanded and the human capital investment required meeting these labor demands. Rapid growth can contribute to poverty reduction. Although there are variations across countries, social norms strongly influence men’s and women’s work and working environments. Some tasks and jobs are considered more appropriate for men or women and covert screening filters out applicants who defy these norms. These gender norms frequently underpin sex-segmented labor markets typically confine women workers to low-wage, low productivity employment and can limit the responsiveness of labor to new demands for high skilled workers. Sluggish labor markets can impede adjustment, distort human capital investment and inhibit a firm’s ability to switch to new activities and compete in a dynamics and globalizing market. Development occurs within an institutional and economics environment that is similarly shaped by customers, social norms, implicit and explicit codes and conduct. The study sought to establish the impact of gender on micro-enterprises performance. The main objective was to establish the differences in the constraint facing female and male owned micro-enterprises respectively in Nandi County in Kenya. Data from a survey of 180 micro-enterprises were used in the modified ordinary least square (OLS).