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The combination of cystitis and emphysematous pyelonephritis is a serious but rare, the prognosis is related to renal damage. CT is the gold standard that allows the diagnosis and establishes a radiological classification with prognostic value. The therapeutic approach is based on The Early antibiotic treatment is systematic. Percutaneous drainage is the first step therapy in most cases,but should not delay a possible rescue nephrectomy. We report a case of emphysematous pyelonephritis associated with emphysematous cystitis in a 26 year old woman. Early diagnosis allowed conservative treatment with appropriate antibiotic therapy and urinary drainage catheter. The outcome was favorable.

The objective of the present study was to minimise the unwanted side effects of olanzapine (OZ) drug by kinetic control of drug release by entrapping OZ into gastro resistant, biodegradable waxes such as beeswax (BW), cetostearyl alcohol (CSA), spermaceti ( SP) and fat cetyl alcohol ( CA) microspheres using meltable emulsified dispersion cooling induced solidification technique utilizing a wetting agent. Solid, discrete, reproducible free flowing microspheres were obtained. The yield of the microspheres was up to 94.0%. Microspheres had smooth surfaces, with free flowing and good packing properties, indicating that the obtained angle of repose, % Carr’s index and tapped density values were well within the limit. More than 97.0% of the isolated spherical microspheres were in the particle size range of 312-330 µm as confirmed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) photographs. The drug loaded in microspheres was found to be stable and compatible with waxes as confirmed by DSC and FTIR studies. The release of drug was controlled for more than 8 h. Intestinal drug release from microspheres was studied and compared with the release behaviour of commercially available formulation Olanex®. The release kinetics followed different transport mechanisms. The drug release performance was greatly affected by the materials used in microsphere preparations, which allows absorption in the intestinal tract.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the correlated factors of landslide using certainty factor (CF) Model in Latyan catchment, north Tehran, Iran. At ?rst, a landslide inventory map was prepared using aerial photographs and the extensive ?eld survey. For this purpose, 208 landslides were mapped and out of which 145 (70 %) were randomly selected for building landslide susceptibility models, while the remaining 63 (30 %) were used for validating the models. In this study, 10 conditioning factors with their classes were evaluated. These factors including: slope; slope aspect; altitude; plan curvature; lithology; land use; distance from faults, rivers and roads and topographic wetness index (TWI). The validation of landslide susceptibility map was carried out using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results shows that the slope class 20 ?–30 ?(0.10640), slope aspect northwest (0.53335), the altitude 1800 - 2000 m (0.40805), curvature concave (0.00788), geology Jd (0.86675), Land Use forest (0.94588), distance from faults 6500–9500 m (0.47110), distance from river 0–200 m (0.25148) and distance form roads 0–500 m (0.24822) have the highest CF values. The result of ROC curve also shows that the certainty factor model has high value of AUC (0.832) which indicates the model employed in this study reasonably good accuracy in predicting the landslide susceptibility of Latyan catchment.

The amino acid composition of the yolk and albumen of the egg of guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) was determined on a dry weight basis. The total essential amino acid ranged from (g/100 g crude protein, cp): 48.0-46.1 or from 49.3-49.2 % respectively of the total amino acid. The amino acid scores showed lysine ranged from 1.27-1.31 (on provisional essential amino acid scoring pattern) and 1.21-1.24 (on suggested requirement of the essential amino acid of a pre-school child). The predicted protein efficiency ratio was 3.74-2.59, the essential amino acid index range was 1.44-1.38 and the calculated isoelectric point range was 5.69-5.48. The correlation coefficient (rxy) was positive and significant at r = 0.05 for the amino acids, amino acid scores and the isoelectric point in the two samples.

With the newly improved ansaltz for the wave function and adopting the modified approximation scheme to evaluate the centrifugal term, we solve the Schrödinger equation with Woods-Saxon plus Rosen-Morse Potentials analytically, for arbitrary l-state. We also obtain the bound state energy spectrum and the unnormalized real and imaginary wave function.

In this paper, we present a counter-example for the stability of reciprocal type functional equation controlled by product of different powers in singular case.

The State of the art of Double Skinned concrete filled steel tubular columns is presented in this paper. Experimental data has been collected and compiled in a comprehensive format listing Parameters involved in the study. Areas of further research are presented . Also, results of ongoing experimental and numerical investigations by various authors including us are presented in this paper.

Until quite recently, human urine has been tagged a ‘waste’, especially in Africa, even though the eastern, and western worlds have for centuries reaped the immense blessings associated with this “liquid gold”. It is in the light of this that this paper discusses the research work conducted to ascertain the fertilizer value of human urine and its utilization in agriculture in Kumasi, Ghana. The study investigated the maximum storage time of human urine that would result in increased NPK for crop use under green house conditions using maize as the test crop. Some morphological characteristics; number of leaves, leave length, plant height and leave width were measured. Perceptions of farmers and consumers on urine use in agriculture were also examined. In a randomized complete block design, fresh urine (0), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 months’ old urine and NPK 15:15:15 chemical fertilizers were applied to maize crops in a green house. Prior to planting and application of plant nutrients, soil and human urine NPK contents were analysed using standard methods. Fresh urine produced the highest Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium contents of 884.572mg/L, 68.044mg/L, and 180.763mg/L respectively compared to the six months old urine which yielded 700.450mg/L, 0.578mg/L and 0.096mg/L of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium contents respectively. The amounts of NPK in urine decreased with storage duration. Percentage decrease of urine NPK over the six months of storage were 20.8%, 31% and 22% respectively. Fertilization of maize crops with urine, produced crops with morphological characteristics comparable to plants fertilized with NPK mineral fertilizer – 15:15:15. Farmers, though unaware of the fertilizer value of human urine, were willing to use it in farming. Consumers however were unwilling to patronize vegetables fertilized with human urine.

Typical time series prediction methods used in many real-world applications. The proposed approach consists of an ARIMA methodology and feed-forward, backpropagation network structure with an optimized conjugated training algorithm. The hybrid approach for time series prediction is tested using 144-month observations of water quality data, including water temperature, Total dissolved solids (TDS) and Sodium adsorption ratio (SAR), during 1997–2008 at Karun river, Iran. The correlation coefficients between the hybrid model predicted values and observed data for TDS, SAR and water temperature are 0.935, 0.939, and 0.892, respectively, which are satisfactory in common model applications. Predicted water quality data from the hybrid model are compared with those from the ARIMA methodology and neural network architecture using the accuracy measures.

Simple technique was used for formation of carbon nanomaterials without using any type of gases .The used arc plasma technique between the pure graphite electrodes with different diameters for anode submerged in water at room temperature.arc plasma is produced using D.C power supply with current (30-90amp),and voltage (5-20volt).The nanomaterials were produced in the form of floating on the surface of water and other nanomaterials deposited on the bottom of the container and the other deposit on the cathode's rod,and nanocolloidal dispersed through the water. The results of these experiments were examined by Atomic force microscope(AFM), scanning electron microscope(SEM) Simple technique was used for formation of carbon nanomaterials without using any type of gases .The used arc plasma technique between the pure graphite electrodes with different diameters for anode submerged in water at room temperature.arc plasma is produced using D.C power supply with current (30-90amp),and voltage (5-20volt).The nanomaterials were produced in the form of floating on the surface of water and other nanomaterials deposited on the bottom of the container and the other deposit on the cathode's rod,and nanocolloidal dispersed through the water. The results of these experiments were examined by Atomic force microscope(AFM), scanning electron microscope(SEM) and the cathode's rod were examined by optical microscope after arc plasma.