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Responders who search and rescue people in collapsed buildings and structures face individual and organizational challenges. These challenges are surmountable if responders and their institutions tactically endeavor to address them so that more lives are saved. This study sought to determine strategic options for the improvement of response during urban search and rescue. Findings revealed that many responders and organizations lacked code of conduct for responders and were financially and materially deficient during deployment and therefore relied on partnership and collaborations from other first line response organizations to be able to effectively carryout their work.

The present work analyzes the influence of chemical reaction on free convective flow of a visco-elastic incompressible and electrically conducting fluid past an infinite vertical porous plate through porous medium with constant suction in presence of uniform transverse magnetic field. The necessity of the present analysis arises as the most industrial fluids exhibit the visco-elastic behavior. The coupled nonlinear partial differential equation are turned to ordinary by super imposing a solution with steady and time dependent transient part. Finally, the set of ordinary differential equations is solved with a perturbation scheme to meet the inadequacy of boundary condition. The solutions for the velocity, temperature and concentration are obtained and displayed graphically for pertinent parameters such as magnetic parameter, Grashof number, modified Grashof number, Prandtl number, Schmidt number, Eckert number and permeability parameter. It is observed that the magnetic parameter and the Schmidt number retard the velocity of the flow field while the Grashof number for heat and mass transfer, the porosity parameter have accelerating effect on the velocity of the flow field at all points. Further, the Prandtl number reduces the temperature and Schmidt number and chemical reaction parameter diminishes the concentration distribution of the flow field at all points.

Background: In this emerging era of global, fast-paced knowledge-based economy, universities, as major centres of learning and research, are becoming increasingly important as sources of ideas, knowledge, skills, innovation and technological advances. These ideas can be turned into new products, processes and systems needed to drive their respective national economies, and thus placing universities at the centre of the national innovation systems. Consequently, commercialization of research outputs from universities to industry has become an area of strong policy interest in African countries. Objective: To assess initiatives to commercialize research outputs by Kenyan universities Design: Cross-sectional study of public and private universities Setting: Seventeen well established universities (15 public and 2 private), all accredited by the Commission for University Education, Kenya. Participants: Deans, Registrars, Directors or Deputy (Directors/Vice Chancellors), responsible for research and development. Results: All the surveyed universities had a strategic plan; though not all had innovation and commercialization as part of it. More than half of the seventeen surveyed universities indicated to have established designated offices for fostering commercialization. Majority had guidelines on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), which advocate for IP to be co-owned by researcher/university. University-industry linkages are weak. Most universities are taking precursory steps to incentivize and encourage entrepreneurial activities among their academic staff and students, even though the level of resources devoted to them is low. Conclusions: It is recommended that building capacity in entrepreneurship among staff and students and committing more resources to Research and Development (R&D) activities hold potential to increased commercialization of university research outputs in Kenya.

For the sake of safety and convenience, the current practice of feeding infants on medicines generally is through liquid medicine placed in several kinds of feeders. However, as infants usually do not cooperate, the results are not always satisfactory and the actual dosage of intake is hard to precisely be measured, thus discounting the effect of medical treatment. To overcome the above shortcomings, this invention is to create a medicine-giving device built in a nipple pacifier for infants to use. We hope to improve the effect of feeding infants on medicine by calming the infants down during the feeding process, so the full dosage of medicine could be taken completely and successfully.

The purpose of this subject to know the quality of clinker which produce from the rotary kiln according to amount oxygen rate in the exhausted cases measured by or sat device in smoke chamber .the expert in quality control can be recognize the good clinker and bad clinker according to the condition of kilne to maintain the flame temperature in suitalele range that inverts relation with excess oxygen to protect the material temperature in in the burning zone . if the temperature of materials increased or decreased or decreased will be cause upset the kiln and the material feed become deeay so that the economy cost is rising .

Abstract —to support higher data rate optical networks play a vital role. The high bandwidth potential of optical fiber can be explored by exploiting multiplexing techniques like wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and Optical time division multiplexing techniques (OTDM).This paper evaluates the performance of 8 channel WDM and OTDM passive optical network (PON) for 150 km using PIN and APD(avalanche photodiode) receivers. It is found that WDM passive optical network (PON) yields better performance. Hence, it is further investigated for different data rates and modulation formats. It is found that RZ modulation format provides better Max quality factor (Q) than NRZ modulation format up to a distance of 100km.Beyond 100km the Max quality(Q) factor decreases due to dispersion and nonlinearities. The current access networks and next generation passive optical networks (NG PON) has also been reviewed.

Under most pathological conditions there is generation of reactive oxygen species and other free radicals. An increase in the antioxidant reserves of the organism can reduce oxidative stress and some of the plant-derived agents may help to reduce it. The aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro antioxidant activity inhibition of superoxide, nitric oxide, hydroxyl, reducing power assay and total antioxidant capacity. At (10-50mg/ml) concentration the S.spontaneum of 50mg/ml concentration exhibited high superoxide, nitric oxide and hydroxyl radical scavenging capacity using vitamin E rutin and ascorbic acid as positive control. In the concentration range (1-5mg/ml) investigated, the extract demonstrated that reducing power and total antioxidant capacity were increased linearly with concentration. Collectively, our results indicate that the ethanolic root extract of S.spontaneum has the potential to scavenge free radicals and act as a good antioxidant for treating various diseases.

Narayan’s women characters embody situations of female repression and exploitation within a patriarchal regime that is challenged by their resourcefulness and independence, to the extent where they enact terrible myths like that of the Goddess Kali. The characters’ symbolic primitivism is blended with western literary techniques in cases like that of “Selvi”, who personifies the Divine Singer Saraswati; Rosie the seducer who represents the Sacred Dancer Mohini; or Savitri and Shanta Bai, who are opposite faces of the loyal and perfect companions Savitri and Sita.

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Postgraduate study has been considered as a main life event which can lead to marital discordance. Various adjustments have to be done by the students and their spouse. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate marital adjustment among married postgraduate students in two public universities in Malaysia. A random sample of 176 students from two public universities in Malaysia has been selected. The instrument employed is the adjusted Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment and a set of demographic variables. ANOVA 2x3x2 is used to investigate the means differences of marital adjustment according to gender, nationality, and university among the participants. Results indicated significant differences marital adjustment mean scores between gender, three nationalities, and two universities. Implications on family and college counseling are discussed. Finally, direction for future research on marital adjustments among postgraduate is suggested.