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We are very happy to announce that from 21st February 2011, Dr.Aini Mat Said has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on the Resource Management and Consumer Studies Faculty of Human Ecology. Dr.Aini Mat Said is currently working Department of Resource Management and Consumer Studies Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra,Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Malaysia. The appointment of Dr.Aini Mat Said as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links with Iran and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to chiefeditor@elixirjournal.org. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

The effect of dried grain final moisture content on breaking force and milling properties of paddy and brown rice were studied. Results revealed that the breaking force decreased significantly (P<0.01) from 146.66 to 113.51 N, 150.49 to 101.93 N and 150.31 to 113.86 N for Hashemi, Kadous and Khazar, respectively, as the moisture content increased from 6 to 12 %(w.b.). In case of brown rice, the similar trend were observed such that at the same moisture range, the breaking force decreased from 93.18 to 79.32 N, 93.4 to 82.06 N and 104.4 to 83.64 N for Hashemi, Kadous and Khazar, respectively. The maximum and minimum head rice yield (HRY) of 80.13 and 73.76 % were obtained at moisture content of 6 and 12 % respectively. There was an incremental trend in the values of head brown rice yield (HBRY) and milling recovery with decreasing dried final moisture content.

Electric discharge machine (EDM) is a modern machining process with various advantages, as a result of which, its use is becoming more and more widespread.Thispaperconcernswith the influence of EDM input parameters (type of electrodes, peak current, pulse-on time and powder mixing concentration) on the induced surface residual stresses. The silicon carbide powder is mixed with the kerosene dielectric in powder mixing EDM (PMEDM) process. The experimental work was designed by using the response surface methodology (RSM). The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used and regression models were built to predict the surface residual stresses as a response of the process for AISI D2 die steel.Empirical equationswereobtained for predicting the performance of the process.Two type of electrodes were used, the copper and graphite electrodes.The results showed that the minimum tensile surface residual stresses obtained when using the copper electrodeswith pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (120 µs). It is concluded that the use of graphite electrodes and kerosene dielectric alone induced minimum residual stresses with pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (40 µs) and with(120 µs) when using the kerosene dielectric with SiC powder mixing. The copper electrodes with kerosene dielectric alone induced residual stresses about (5%) lower than when using kerosene dielectric with 5g/l SiC powder and about (14%) lower than with graphite electrodes and (8%) when using the kerosene dielectric alone and with SiC powder, respectively.

The study was conducted to study the effects of the use of pieces of rubber as a partial substitute in bitumen flexible pave ACW 14. Bitumen is one of the binder materials used in construction of roads and pave has increased prices and costs to achieve it. As a result of increasing economic and traffic load, road bitumen structure designed should have the durability and capability services play a key role in the communication network, the most important. Objective of this study is to reduce the quantity of bitumen used and replaced with pieces of rubber. Therefore, many efforts have been undertaken to improve the quality of the existing bitumen. In this study, modified bitumen grade 80/100 pricking is done with the addition of various pieces of rubber per cent content. Percentage of rubber used is 0%, 3%, 6%, 9%, 12% and 15% of the total amount of bitumen used. ACW 14 mixes compacted with mechanical junkie and tested values Marshall Stability. Potential ACW 14 modified with a mixture of rubber elasticity modulus obtained by studying, scorching and Maximum Load and then compared with the control capabilities through a mixture of ACW 14 Indirect Tensile Test. Once the three parameters were studied, the percentage of rubber content can be determined that the optimal content of 12% rubber. Based on studies conducted, it found pieces of rubber bitumen ability to increase capacity by an increasing in the occurrence of Blowing Point Temperature Index and pricking of altered samples. It also can decrease the value of pricking. In addition the ability of a mixture of slip resistance also showed good results through the slip resistance test. Overall analysis carried out shows, the addition of pieces of rubber in the mixture can enhance the capability of the mixture 14 as ACW pave flexible.

Chromium is the third most toxic heavy which can be removed from the environment by naturally occurring microbes. There is an increasing interest to enhance the bioremediation potential of microorganism; this study is focused on using UV radiation (258 nm) to increase the bioremediating efficiency of chromium tolerant Aperillus niger, isolated from peri-urban agricultural area of Kasur. UV light has a tendency to cause DNA mutations in microbes that may lead to point mutation which in turn can contribute towards tolerance against heavy metals. The conidia of K14 isolate of A.niger were exposed to UV light at the distance of 0.5m from the source and time duration of 1-6 hours. The behavior of A.niger with and without Petri plate cover under different doses of UV light was studied. Control strain was left unexposed to UV light. All the variants after exposure to UV light decreased the growth rate but the variant exposed for 5 hours showed contrasting effect as the growth significantly increased hence point mutations were caused when the Petri plate cover was removed. The mutant variant (irradiated for 5 hours) was taken for further analysis of heavy metal tolerance, biosorption and effect of different media conditions including pH, temperature, batch time and different Cr(NO3)3 concentrations. The rate of uptake of Cr(NO3)3 by the mutant variant was faster as compared to the control, whereas there was no significant difference in the biosorption potential of both the variants. Optimum biosorption conditions have been found for both the control and mutant variants at pH 6, temperature 30°C, and 2 hour as optimum retention time for control and 1 hour for the mutant variant. It was concluded that A.niger was differently affected by different time exposure of UV radiation (258nm) with reference to changes in its growth rate, uptake of metal and its tolerance potential and the rate of uptake of chromium was faster for the mutant variant.

This investigation is undertaken to study the numerical solution of a two-dimensional, steady, incompressible electrically conducting, laminar free convection boundary layer flow of a continuously moving vertical porous plate in the presence of transverse magnetic field, heat generation and viscous dissipation. The basic equations governing the flow are in the form of partial differential equations and have been reduced to a set of non-linear ordinary differential equations by applying suitable similarity transformations. The problem is solved numerically using shooting techniques with the fourth order Runge-Kutta method. Comparisons with previously published work are performed and are found to be in an excellent agreement. The physical behavior of different parameters for velocity, temperature and concentration has been examined graphically and analyzed quantitatively.

To prove the efficiency of Intramuscular Tramadol injection as labour analgesic and labour accelerator in latent phase of labour and mode of delivery .This is a prospective observational study done during Oct 10 to Sep 11. 100 pregnant women who were booked in this hospital. Out of 100 patients, 26 % had mild pain relief, 38% had moderate pain relief and 36% had no pain relief. Mean duration of I stage was 256.09 minutes and II stage was 25.54 minutes. Mode of delivery – normal delivery was 88.1% and LSCS was 9.1%.

According to the article 191 of Civil law, a contract can be implemented on the condition that the thing that indicates the intent will be possible. Since the signature indicates the intention of the signee's composition, the symmetry can be signature or signet. It is obvious that it is not necessary that the symmetry to be created in handwriting and it could be an electronic symmetry. The electronic signatures are actually a way for confirming the documents while guaranteeing their security during an interaction. In addition, this kind of signature does not have a feature prior to than the other kinds of signatures that makes them invalid and only the way of their creation is different. As a result, there is no legal restriction to apply this technology. According to the article 7 of the Iranian Trade Law (ITL), whenever the law necessitates the presence of signature, the electronic signature is sufficient. Therefore, the article of the electronic signature is computer does the same article of the handmade signature done by something like pen, while in the electronic signature is done again by hand but this time it. Secondly, not all the documents are paper-based. For instance, there are some important tablets, which regarding the available definition of document in the law, are considered as documents while they are not on paper. In fact, from the above-mentioned article 7, it can be inferred that the electronic signature can legally be a suitable substitution for the handy signature, and there is no difference between the handy signatures in the paper documents and the electronic ones in the terms of effects.

The electrical characteristics and molecular orbital analysis of 1,2-di(cyclopenta-1,3-dienyl)ethyne molecule has been studied by using quantum chemical calculations coupled with density functional theory (DFT) using Gaussian09 program package. The molecule has been substituted with thiol, Au and Pt atoms at both ends of the molecule one by one and the corresponding variations in structural, electrostatic and transport properties have been analyzed. In this study, thiol atom acts as linker whereas Au and Pt atoms act as electrodes. Comparing with thiol substituted molecule the Au and Pt substituted molecules exhibit more variations in their structural properties. Atomic charges of the free molecule as well as all the substituted molecules have been compared with MPA and NPA charges. The HOMO-LUMO gap (HLG) of the molecule decreases gradually for S, Au and Pt substituted molecules respectively. The existence of small HLG of Au substituted molecule enhances the conductivity. Using Au as electrodes with thiol as linker, 1,2-di(cyclopenta-1,3-dienyl)ethyne can acts as an efficient molecular wire.

Localized heating is poised to become an integral part of microfluidic devices in various life-science applications. The elimination of cancer cells are done using resistive heating method. Many methods are adopted for cancer elimination. But this method will be more useful for elimination the cancer cells. By using mems, COMSOL Multiphysics technique by resistive heating method the cancer cells will be get eliminated. This is catalyzed by the scale of economics, the advantageous fluidic behavior at small volumes, and the ever increasing need for rapid and high throughput assays for pharmaceutical industry and other combinatorial based studies. For precision confined heating, thin film resistive heaters have proven to be superior to the conventionally used Peltier elements, which are often a hindrance to miniaturization and functionality integration for thermally sensitive application. The resistivity of certain metals varies predictably with temperature, making them suitable for use as temperature sensors. If a thin film could be designed so that it preserves a uniform temperature distribution during heating, its total resistance would accurately reflect its temperature, allowing it to simultaneously act as both a temperature sensor and a heater.