Six hundred and thirty six samples of both local and imported agricultural crops including vegetables, crops of fruits were analyzed to detect pesticides residues in 2019 and 2020. Local samples were collected from four districts located in north Jordan, namely: Irbid, Jarash, Ajloon, and Mafraq. Collected imported samples were from different zones in Jordanian borders. Analyzed local agricultural crops show that one hundred and ten contained pesticide residues, but less than the maximum residue limits (MRL), representing 27.8 % of the total samples. Sixty six analyzed local samples contained residues more than the MRL, representing 16.7% of the total local samples. Imported crop analyzed samples showed that one hundred and eighty ones were free of the residues, representing 75% of the 240 samples. Forty two imported analyzed samples contained residues, but less than the MRL, representing 7.5%. Several conclusions and recommendations were suggested.
The study was undertaken to assess nutrient composition, blood glucose, lipid profile (triglyceride, cholesterol, HDL-C, LDL-C) and histological changes (liver, kidney, and pancreas) of rats. The millet (Shandaweel 1) had 16.05% protein, fat 5.01%, ash 2.11%, fiber 2.53%, carbohydrate 76.82% and 416 kcal/100 g energy while, wheat flour (72% extraction) had 13.50% protein, fat 1.73%, ash 1.47%, fiber 0.85%, carbohydrate 83.30% and 402.57 kcal/100g energy. In the experimental diabetic groups of rats fed on whole millet flour and millet flour decreased the blood sugar content from 239 to 110 - 226 to 112, respectively. All of the control samples had a decrease in the amount of triglycerides, but in the diabetic samples, it was noticed that the triglycerides increased in the first and second week, and then began to decrease in the third and fourth weeks. total cholesterol in groups control was decreased 88.2, 89.86, 59.46, 87.3, respectively but groups affected blood sugar (diabetic) total cholesterol increased after two week then decreased that 81.81, 84.3, 89.0, 142.0, respectively. HDL levels increased in control sample and affected blood sugar (diabetics). Results revealed that there was significant decrease in the LDL level for feeding rats of whole millet. Histological changes in The group rats non- diabetic 1,3,5,7 which fed on basic meal, whole millet flour, millet flour, best sample bread characterized by mild histological changes mean while pronounced lesions were encountered in groups rats diabetic 2,4,6,8 (hyperglycemic group). The study indicated that the millet is beneficial for diabetic\'s patients and obesity.
This paper aimed at pointing out some weaknesses observed in the communication and assistance process for the deaf, either as users or as providers of medical and hospital services in the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and qualitative study whose data were obtained from official documents from governmental health agencies and scientific literature on the subject in question. According the literature, the communication barrier is a problem for deaf people to gain access to quality education; adequate health care and quality information during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many technological resources were developed to meet the changes necessary to face the pandemic, however they were prepared almost exclusively for listeners. Thus, it is time to think isonomically in relation to deaf when designing social and health promotion policies.
In the Intensive Care Unit of hospitals, the biggest dilemma of choice is knowing when to withhold and when to withdraw potentially life supporting system where majority of the death cases are preceded. Bio-ethics, in this niche provide ambiguous advice. That’s because the focus is more on the moral value of withholding or withdrawing the support system, instead of focusing more on the awareness, intervention options and how interpersonal values are discussed and enacted. It is imperative to seek patient’s consent before proceeding, but in critical situation it becomes difficult to abide by obligations to secure consent. This research paper encompasses the question about how the choice of withholding and withdrawing faces different ethical concerns, both with positive and negative interpretations and how this situation has highlighted futility in the ICU.
Varicocele is a common pathology that affects the male population, among the several negative effects it stands out the decrease in sexual fitness. In this sense, the prevalence of varicocele in the population causes it to be speculated as an evolutionary paradox.
Abstract\nThe study “portrayal of the war on terror” A comparative study of the editorials of Daily New York Times & Daily Dawn (2001-2010)” is basically a comparison of Pakistan and American press on the issue of War on Terror. It is a census study conducted by carrying out content analysis of editorials of ‘New York times’ and editorials of Daily “Dawn”. The findings clear that ‘Dawn’ gave more coverage to War on terror as compare to Daily New York Times. Dawn gave 207 editorials whereas New York Times gave 181 editorials on war on terror. As regard to the more supportive towards WOT, the NYT was more supportive then Daily Dawn. Dawn gave 60.3% editorials out of 100% supportive to war on terror, it gave 20% editorials not supportive, and Dawn remained neutral in 19.7% editorials. New York Times gave 72.3% out of 100% coverage positive towards war on terror. He remained not supportive in 12.7% editorials and remains neutral in 15% editorials. This research draws its theoretical framework from Robert Entman’s Framing theory that discusses two things which are Selection and Silent. He describes framing process as to select some perceived reality and make them more silent. He further says that communicators make the framing in any way they can be evaluate, interpret, defines, make something important and the recommendations towards a particular items subscribed. The basis of Framing Theory is that the media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning.
Quality of higher education is its ability to produce a steady flow of people with high intelligence and commitment to learning that will continue the process of transmission and advancement of knowledge. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is one of the Total Quality Management (TQM) techniques which can be applied for process and design improvement. This study uses QFD as a tool for quality improvement and benchmarking in higher education institutions of Pakistan. The study is based on primary data collected from five hundred students which is considered as customers, and five hundred teachers, considered as technical describers from six Pakistani national degree awarding universities. A self designed questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed using the techniques of QFD on higher education institutes of Pakistan. On the basis of these feedback, a house of quality is developed, which highlighted the major concerned areas of quality improvements in teaching and also highlighted some benchmarks where other institutions are more productive. Result shows the area in which a university is performing best, so other universities can use this performance as a benchmark for their improvement in certain area.
This paper deals some of the technologies used in WiMAX wireless communication. Here we have given some of the technologies like SOFDMA, Mobile WiMAX channel encoding process, Relay station grouping and Messages, Ideal mode operation, Paging and Location management, Privacy Key Management protocol, WiMAX physical layer security, comparison of WIMAX OFDM , OFDMA and SOFDMA, Uplink Sub Frame: down link Sub Frame, IEEE 802.16 Protocol Stack, Privacy and Key Management Protocol and authorization
Service Oriented Architecture has gained significant attention as programming model for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Its key idea is to exploit the decoupling of service providers and consumers to enable platform independent applications that are dynamically bound to platform specific services. The promise of service oriented architecture is to enable the composition of new distributed applications/solutions: when no available service can satisfy a client request, available services can be composed in order to satisfy such a request. In this paper we explore a simple approach for service composition in service oriented wireless sensor networks. Service composition solution includes algorithms for service graph generation, service selection, service merging and routing. An evaluation of the proposed system was conducted. That included a comparison with related works. The obtained simulation results show that the proposed system achieves significant improvements on aspects including query success ratio, latency, energy consumption and quality of service.
Novel study to focus on actual results for cancer percentage disease between India and Denmark countries to initiate a new idea to make a comparison between all effects of cancer disease to reach to very important factor and this factor is food quality to produced a new mathematical model with a new idea that represented this disease as a chemical reaction passes in five phases each phase has it is own properties then make optimization by using SQP method to reach to the optimum concentration of food to reduce cancer percentage more than 97% and improve all these results theoretically.
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are emerged as an important technology for different purposes. In order to ensure the network quality of service it is necessary for the wireless sensor networks to be able to detect the faults and take actions to avoid further degradation of the service using fault tolerance techniques. An articulation point is defined as a network node whose removal increases the number of disconnected network components. Failures of such nodes disconnect network and block data transmission form network components to others; hence it is vital to detect articulation points. This paper presents a fault detection algorithm for wireless sensor networks by detecting the articulation points and provides a solution in case of disconnection of one of these points. And also provides fault tolerance technique for network disconnectivity by using Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN).
Document clustering is mainly used in the field of information retrieval. It play vital role in text clustering and web mining. In earlier days generative model based algorithms were used for text clustering. The main objective of document clustering is to group data elements such that the intra – group similarities are high and inter-group similarities are low. In this work, we address a new hybrid algorithm called MFMLK-Means for clustering TMG format document data. This algorithm is an improved version of our previous algorithm MLK-means clustering algorithm. The results of the proposed algorithm were compared with e probabilistic von Mises-Fisher model-based clustering (vMF-based k-means) and the previous MLK-means clustering algorithm. The improvements in the proposed algorithm are more significant.
The composite membranes with polyvinylalcohol (PVA) as separating layer material and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) or cellulose acetate (CA) as supporting layer material were prepared for separating methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)/MeOH mixture by pervaporation (PV). In the first part of the present research work, the synthesis and characterization of a multilayer PVA/CA/PEG membrane was attempted (El-Hashash et al., 2011). where membrane performance and applicability was investigated for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination of saline water. For this purposes, various synthetic membranes were prepared and characterized for the desalination process. Reverse osmosis parameters of different multilayer composite membranes were evaluated compared to a reference membrane of a desalination station in Egypt. Values of both salt rejection and water flux were assessed as a measure of membrane efficiency. In the present work, selected samples of CA/PEG and PVA/CA/PEG were engaged as membranes for the reverse osmosis process of different feed concentrations of groundwater, brackish, highly saline and also extremely saline water (sea water). Feed and permeate concentrations were determined by conductivity measurements. In addition, to suitable application of the prepared synthetic membranes, the antimicrobial sustainability was also evaluated where prospective function against gam +ve and gram -ve was depicted.
We investigate the performance of the expected utility model Vs a non expected utility model incorporating both loss aversion and narrow framing when describing the risky choice behavior in a natural experiment. We use data from the Tunisian version of the TV game show \"Deal Or No Deal\". Based on the choices of 90 contestants, we first calculate the mean of the lower and the upper bounds of the contestants’ relative risk aversion. We find that the expected utility model fail to describe all the possible scenarios of the risky choice behavior. Notably, we find when the contestant accepts an offer while he rejected better, the expected utility model produces an upper bound of risk below the lower bound. The model of loss aversion and narrow framing has better performance as it introduces a correction in the contestant utility via the loss aversion term-a greater sensitivity to losses than gains -witch solves the problem of inconsistency between upper and lower bounds. We then estimate a stochastic preference model via the maximum of likelihood approach. Results show important contestants’ errors which reflect their difficulties to make choices in the game and confirm the superiority of the loss aversion and narrow framing model on the expected utility model in describing contestants’ preferences. The model also provides an average estimate of the relative risk aversion of 0.1962 for initial wealth between 0 and 12000 TND.
Many researchers stated that after a period of neglect, because of the methodological problems, the topic of music and emotion is again at the forefront of music psychology. Therefore it is important to integrate existing knowledge from a variety of disciplines to be able to further theoretical development, and the findings of this experimental study would contribute with some conclusions. The study found that effects of unmodified and modified tempo and timbre element towards the emotional musical responses of the musicians differs from those of non-musicians, since musicians are significantly more sensitive towards the tempo and timbre differences. There are definitely differences provided by effects of modified and unmodified tempo and timbre element stimulation towards the emotional musical responses of the listeners, as well as showing that tempo is the most important element and potentially stimulate emotional responses. This study also claims that musical emotional responses which are stimulated by the timbre element of the Javanese gamelan instrument is more effected by the listener’s perception, experience and sociocultural aspects, than only by physics factors. It was shown by the evidence that musical emotional responses of the Javanese Gamelan listeners are significantly more affected by the tempo element compared to the timbre element. Cultural factors were also determined as dominant factors that should always be considered, as it is always related to the perception and musical emotional responses that come forward.
