Archives-April 2018

Recent developments in the molecular biology have provided some specific molecular markers which are generally used to define a specific region of genome. In genetic analyses, three types of markers are used as morphological, protein and DNA markers. After the discovery of polymerase chain reaction (PCR), PCR-based markers have been begun to be more preferred. Studies of genetic characterization have inconsiderable importance in the studies such as determining the level of inter and intra- population genetic diversity, devel-oping protection programs, domestication, and deter-mination of migration routes. In genetic characteriza-tion studies, the different biochemical marker systems, alloenzymes, mitochondrial DNA, and Y chromosome specific molecules are used. DNA markers, particularly polymorphic microsatellite markers, constitute the most preferable system in PCR applications. New mo-lecular biology techniques enable analysis of single nucleotide polymorphism to be able to made faster and economically and be used together with microsatellites.

To evaluate the rate control of the hypertensive patients and to identify the risk factors of non-control in the eastern region of Morocco. Our study is an analytical cross-sectional study covering a period of 34 months, between January 2014 and September 2016. The study consisted of 301 hypertensive patients known and treated for at least 4 weeks, having profited from an ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) with therapeutic aiming, collected from the non-invasive cardiology department of the Mohammed VI university hospital of Oujda. We used the BTL-08 ABPM, NBP-24 NG NORAV for the recording and the software SPSS for the data analysis. The threshold was fixed on the average of 24-hours was BP < 130/80 mmHg, and the patients were divided into two groups according to whether they were or not undercontroll There were 161 men (39%) and 185 women (61%), with an average age of 60 years (ranges: 23 to 91 years). Age was the most common cardiovascular risk factor 57%, followed by diabetes in 29%, obesity in 27%, dyslipidemia in 20%, then smoking in 16%. Note that all women in our population were menopausal. 42.5% of our subjects were under signle medication, 45.2% were under double medication and 12.3% were under triple medication. Non-therapeutic control was objectified in 49% of our patients. The prevalence of non-dipping was 45.8%. Advanced age and monotherapy were the risk factors of non-control. Half of hypertensive patients in our study were not adequately controlled under antihypertensive therapy. This work emphasizes the contribution of ABPM in the evaluation of blood pressure control. Factors of poor control were advanced age and monotherapy.

The adsorption characteristics of Georgian natural and acid-modified forms of clinoptilolite and laumontite have been studied in order to determine possibilities of their application in treatment of water contaminated by metals. It was found that natural clinoptilolite washed by diluted acid is the most effective adsorbent for barium, cobalt and lithium, while strontium, manganese, nickel and lead can be captured by modified clinoptilolite, but zinc, iron and copper – by modified laumontite. A combined filter (quartz sand + washed clinoptilolite + laumontite + clinoptilolite, both treated with 1.0N HCl solution) is offered.

Water is the essential element in creating and sustaining conditions for human life Cell of the organism, and the medium in which we live. Water is one of the most important natural elements in our cart Ground is the secret of life, and is one of the most important components of living matter. Water accounts for 63% of the human body weight (Average) and human muscles contain about 83% of it. The human body needs about 5.2 liters Daily of water, and gets this amount of food and drink. Water plays a key role in the chemical processes in the body, and rid of waste, and contributes to the regulation of body temperature process Sweating. Due to the importance of drinking water in the preservation of life on the one hand, water is exposed to pollution by Many pollutants, including microorganisms, minerals, organic substances and radioactive materials, on the other hand Which called for the issuance of standards for the acceptance of drinking water, whether global or local standards. The focus will be on this study on the radiological side [1]. Although Kuwait does not have natural drinking water resources such as wells or rivers, most bottled water companies are directed to seawater in desalination, or resort to drill coastal beach wells. The coastal beach wells, are wells drilled near the coast of sea at depths of up to 50 meters, and are extracted from it salty sea water, but it is free of pollutants and impurities, or can be taken directly from the sea and thus work is a comprehensive desalination of water and adding Minerals such as magnesium and calcium, in addition to ensuring that it is free of any bacteria or viruses and detect its radioactive contamination or ensure that the concentration of natural radionuclides are not exceeded the international limit in this drinking water, after that water treatment and the addition of ozone gas for sterilization, then the final stage is manufacturing conservation bottles and bottling water in different sizes and processing for sale to the consumers. In this study, the concentration of radon gas in different samples of bottled mineral drinking water companies was measured in State of Kuwait. Concentration of (222Rn) in Bottled Mineral drinking water varies from 1.02 Bq/L to 6.05 Bq/L with the average value of 2.97±1.44 Bq/L. From these results it can be concluded that the majority of drinking water is safe to use from the stand point of concentration of radon in them. Mean values of effective dose per liter and annual effective dose from radon ingested with drinking water for an individual consumer are 29.72 nSv/L and 21.69 ?Sv/y, respectively. So, the level of Radon concentration in Kuwaiti bottled mineral drinking water is below the permissible limits for health purposes to drink.

The feeding habit and diet of Brachydeuterus auritus at Apam in the central region of Ghana was investigated over an 8 months period using the Index of Preponderance. Shrimp was found to be the most preferred food item accounting for 59% occurrence by number, with annelids and blue green algae being the least preferred accounting for 7% each. In the same vain, the most ranked food item using the Index of Preponderance was shrimps followed by fish with annelids recording the least rank. Correlation between food items number and the nutrient rich upwelling season was observed. Continuous study of the feeding preferences of this species is recommended owing to its importance to both the Ghanaian marine catches and as a relatively cheap source of animal protein.

Survival analysis as a field of statistics has had a remarkable growth in the latter half of the last century. The methods used by survival analysis that have led to this insightful impact are the Kaplan-Meier method used in estimating the survival function, the log-rank test commonly used to determine the differences between two or more survival distributions and the Cox Proportional Hazard model used for investigating the effects of covariates on the hazard function. The parametric methods are rarely used. In this work, we present the basic concepts of survival analysis. Furthermore, we compare the semi-parametric (Cox Proportional Hazard) and parametric methods for analysing survival data. We apply these methods to HIV/AIDS infected patients from secondary data to determine the prognostic factors of the event of mortality of the patients. It was found that the parametric method of survival analysis is good and probably preferred if the correct distribution is identified; and that drug abuse history of patients, tuberculosis status, patients’ adherence to drugs and the patients’ CD4 cell counts are prognostic factors for mortality experience of HIV/AIDS patients.

Medieval archaeological bridges located in the region of Adjara (Georgia) have been studied. It is shown that the mineralogic-petrographic composition of the fog is almost uniform. The carbonate part of the mortar equals is 20-25%, and the aluminosilicate part reaches 70-80%. The exception is the bridge of Varjanauli, where the carbonate part is more than 40%. It is recommended to use a high quality cigar to keep the brushes in the rehabilitation and restoration of bridges.

This paper aims of inducing the notion of neutrosophic soft cubic set to BCK/BCI-algebras. Here we focus on various characterizations of neutrosophic soft cubic BCK/BCI-algebras. We infer that the R-intersection of two neutrosophic soft cubic BCK/BCI-algebras is also a neutrosophic soft cubic BCK/BCI- algebras. We also investigate several properties of neutrosophic soft cubic subalgebras of BCK/BCI-algebras based on a given parameter.

Prior researches found several methods to construct 1- factorization using Steiner triple systems [1], the staircase method of Bileski [2], and etc. But not given any method of constructing 1- factors in complete graphs. In our previous work, we briefly explained this construction and published in an Abstract form in the iPURSE 2017. Generalization of that work is given in this paper. For complete graphs whose number of vertices is a multiple of 2, we implement our finding using Java program

This paper critically exposes the concept and legal framework for the implementation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRS) in Nigeria. Intellectual property in summary comprise legal rights which result from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic areas of human endeavours. Most countries including Nigeria have enacted laws to protect intellectual property in order encourage inventors, creators and artists and preserve their rights to the fruits of their labour. Also such laws attract foreign direct investment to the country which creates jobs and increases the country?s revenue through taxes. It was discovered that Nigeria has adequate laws both domestic and International Laws to which Nigeria is a signatory for the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) but what is lacking is diligent implementation of these laws. Consequently, Nigeria has become a destination of first choice for all kinds of pirated works and counterfeited products from various parts of the world. Dubious Nigerian businessmen are also mass producing cassette discs of local movies and popular local songs. Recommendations have been made on how to solve this problem.