The aim of the project is to modify the piston geometry to enhance the squish, swirl, and tumble motion within the combustion chamber. A better in-cylinder motion improves the burning rate of the fuel. In this work the shallow-depth-combustion-chambered piston was designed along with the swirling grooves on the piston crown. Three dimensions of swirling grooves of width 5.5 mm, 6.5 mm, and 7.5 mm were designed with a scoop angle of five degrees. For experimentation diesel was used as an energy source. Based on the experimental results, it was found that swirling-grooved-shallow-depth piston with width 6.5 mm gave better performance, combustion characteristics besides causing reduction in the emissions for the test engine, at maintained test conditions.

Broccoli has a very good nutritive value, high antioxidant activity and pro-healthy potential. Freezing is one of best methods for vegetable storage and broccoli belongs to the group of vegetables subjected to this process on an industrial scale. This work investigates the effect of type of container: low density polyethylene (PE-LD) bags and oriented polystyrene (OPS) boxes on selected quality parameters in frozen broccoli. The vegetable was subjected to blanching, freezing and 3-month storage. At the every stage of an experiment the material was examined in terms of: vitamin C content; β-carotene; total polyphenols; and antioxidant potential, which was determined basing on the ability to quench the ABTS˙+ free radical. It has been found that vegetables which were kept frozen for 3 months in two types of container had parallel levels of vitamin C, β-carotene; total polyphenols; and similar antioxidative potential.

With environmental pollution increasing, interest in organic farming and organic foodstuffs free of any pesticide residues, heavy metals, hormones, excess nitrates, genetically modified organisms, and synthetic food additives, has been growing all over the world. Data on organic food consumption by the athletes in Lithuania has not been collected yet. This lack of data determined the aim of our study to identify the peculiarities of the consumption of organic foodstuffs among Lithuanian high-performance athletes.\nIn September–November 2012, we polled 158 of the best-performing athletes of the Olympic sports team through direct interviews. Statistical data analysis was conducted with the SPSS v 15.0 program. The survey results showed that 97% of athletes consume organic foodstuffs, while 80% of athletes highlighted the positive impact of organic food on health. Nevertheless, a slim majority of athletes (51.7%) consume organic foodstuffs too seldom, only 2–3 times per week. Athletes usually consume organic vegetables, fruits, berries, dairy products, eggs, and meat. The range of organic foodstuffs consumed depends on the gender of athletes, and the consumption of some products depends on monthly incomes. According to our survey, information on organic foodstuffs is accessible to only 55.7% of athletes. Athletes usually receive information about organic foods from their friends, family members, television programs, the Internet, and educational institutions.\nOur survey results validate the need for the production and expansion of the variety of organic foodstuffs. In the course of the development of the organic food market, it should be expedient for manufacturers to target high-performance athletes and physically active people.

　This study is to investigate hematuria in pregnant patients caused by renal arteriovenous malformation and to evaluate the efficacy of superselective renal angiography and embolization used for treatment of renal arteriovenous malformation. Two cases of hematuria in pregnant patients caused by renal arteriovenous malformation were enrolled. Case 1 was a 28-year-old woman with repeatedly intermittent hematuria at week 7 during gestation. Case 2 was a 30-year-old woman with repeatedly intermittent hematuria at week 8 during gestation. B ultrasound and CT were performed to detect hydronephrosis. Renal arteriovenous malformation was diagnosed by selective angiography. Both the patients were treated with embolization. The 2 cases were successfully embolized with different materials including gelfoam and coils. Both of the 2 patients were recovered well and discharged successful after the operation. In conclusion, superselective renal angiography and embolization are effective methods for diagnosis and treatment of renal arteriovenous malformation in pregnant patients.

The present study deals with the ichthyofaunal diversity of Hub Reservoir in Sindh, Pakistan. Undertaken during 2006-2009. The results of present investigation reveal the occurrence of 21 fish species belonging to 7 orders and 9 families. The order Cypriniformes was found to be dominant (12 species) followed by Perciformes, Osteoglossiformes and Siluriformes (2 species each) and Clupeiformes, Symbranchiformes and Chiocephalioformes (1 specie each).The value for richness was significantly high in the months of April and May. Variety of exotic fishes has been stocked in the reservoir viz. Tilapia mossambica, Labeo rohita and Cyprinus carpio. The famous game fish, Tor putitora (Mahseer ) was recorded only during the year 2006-2007 so far. Mahseer is a prized fish both for sport and commercial anglers. Mahseer stock needs protection and restoration

Objective: This study is to provide reliable experimental treatment options for the diagnosis of acute leukemia, prognosis analysis and the detection of minimal residual disease. We observed the bone marrow CD123/CD117/CD34/HLA-DR antigen expression in 64 elderly patients with acute leukemia (AL). \nMethods: The immune phenotypes of 64 elderly AL patients were detected and the correlations of CD123, HLA-DR, CD34 and CD117 expression with the leukemia cell morphology were analyzed. The cell genetics, molecular biology and the prognostic stratification were compared based on flow cytometry. . \nResults: In CDl23-positive patients, the complete remission (CR) rate was 21.5%. In CDl23-negative patients, the CR rate was 59.1%. The CR rate was 21.9% in HLA-DR-positive patients and 43.8% in HLA-DR-negative patients. The CR rate was 24.0% in CD34-positive patients and 41.1% in CD34-negative patients. The CR rate was 29.0% in CD117-positive patients and 42.3% in CD117-negative patients. The CR rate was 34.4% in CD38-positive patients and 0.00% in CD38-negative patients. \nConclusions: These results suggest that CD123+, CD117+, CD34+, and HLA-DR+ are the factors related with the poor prognosis of elderly patients with acute leukemia.

due to increasing use of huge databases , mining practical information and useful knowledge from transactions is evolving into an important area. Most data mining methods focuses on relationship among transactions. Many algorithms have been proposed to find association rules in databases with either binary or quantitative attributes. One of these approaches is fuzzy association rules mining. Fuzzy Apriori and its different variations are the popular fuzzy association rule mining (ARM) algorithms available today. Like the crisp version of Apriori, fuzzy Apriori is a very slow and inefficient algorithm for very large datasets. Hence ,in this paper, we introduce a novel technique , called FCT, for mining fuzzy association rules . Existing method discovers fuzzy association rules by scaning the database once, and performing three tasks simultaneously .First , compute the fuzzy supports of candidate 1-itemsets and then generate large 1-itemsets.Second , divide database into multiple cluster tables ,such that transaction with length k , fall into cluster table k.\nThird ,builds new structure called CDi , for each cluster table i, such that CDi[A,x]=∑µA(x) ,where x is an item and A denotes linguistic term. Then fuzzy large itemsets are generated according to the cluster tables, instead of scanning whole the database. In addition , if CDi[A,x]=0 for cluster i and item i, then for computing the fuzzy support of each candidate itemset containing A(x) , scanning this cluster can be ignored.Consequently , we reduce incredible amount of scanning data and therefore the running time of mining algorithm is reduced greatly. Experimental results show our algorithm is many times faster than fuzzy Apriori for the very large real life dataset .

In this paper, a History based Adaptive algorithm with Time/Space backoff (HBAB/TS) is proposed. It is a modified version of the IEEE 802.11 back off algorithm. It takes into account the history of network states, in order to provide a better QoS performance according to the network status and condition. This algorithm also improves the node fairness. The proposed algorithm is simulated and tested using ns-2 simulator. It can be inferred from the simulation results that HBAB/TS performs better than its counterparts.

The high prevalence of tobacco smoking is typical for Russian Federation. The occurrence of some diseases is directly related to the tobacco usage. So, it\'s actual to estimate medico-demographic and economic damage caused by smoking.\nIn this paper medico-demographic and economic losses due to the population premature mortality caused only by population tobacco smoking were investigated. Joint application of population attributable risk and DALY (Disability Adjusted Life Years) method allowed us to estimate these losses. Cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were considered as the diseases related with the tobacco smoking. The adult population over 20 years old was investigated.\nIt was obtained that the budget losses of Krasnoyarsk region in 2011 related with the population premature mortality directly caused by tobacco smoking reach 23.67 billion rubles (it corresponds to 726 million dollars or 556 million euros). This damage amounts to 2 % of gross regional product of Krasnoyarsk region in 2011.\nAn assessment of economic damage from the diseases related with smoking is important to determine the volume of necessary funding to smoking prevention programs, correctness of tobacco companies taxation and other measures to control tobacco use.

In a wide range of terrestrial ecosystems, different symbiotic mycorrhizal associations between plants and fungi occur, almost ubiquitously. Historically, these have chiefly been considered within the slightly narrow perspective of their effects on the uptake of dissolved mineral nutrients by distinct plants. Mycorrhizal fungi connect their plant hosts to the heterogeneously dispersed nutrients required for their growth, permitting the flow of energy-rich compounds required for nutrient mobilization whilst concurrently providing conduits for the translocation of mobilized products back to their hosts. In addition to growing the nutrient absorptive surface area of their host plant root systems, the extra radical mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi delivers a direct pathway for translocation of photosynthetically derived carbon to microsites in the soil and a huge surface area for interaction with other micro-organisms. With phylogenetic surveys of soil ecosystems it has been known that the number of prokaryotic species in a single soil sample exceeds the known cultured prokaryotes. The soil environment is a plentiful yet under-characterized source of genetic diversity that has countless potential to enrich our understanding of soil microbial ecology and provide bioactive compounds and enzymes useful to human society. The complete functioning and regulation of these mycorrhizosphere processes is still poorly understood but current progress and the metagenomic studies are reviewed.

One of the most important functions that corporate governance can achieve is assuring the quality of financial reporting. This study investigates the association between corporate governance attributes and the quality of financial reporting process across the aeronautic entities listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. The sample consist of six companies observed for a period of five years (from 2008 until 2012)in terms of testing the research hypothesis ``There is a positive association between corporate governance and the quality of financial reporting``. In order to achieve this research`s aim, a multiple regression was designed and the results indicate that there is no significant association between the specific corporate governance attributes and financial reporting quality in the case of Romanian entities operating in aeronautic industry. In terms of value, this article addresses, for the first time in Romania, the issue of the association between corporate governance and financial reporting quality.

Quinolone derivative, particularly fluoroquinolones are important synthetic antimicrobial agents. Currently some quinolone derivatives are under investigation for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensive drug resistance tuberculosis (XDR-TB), and are under investigation as first-line anti-TB drugs. The main biological objective in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the DNA gyrase, a topoisomerase II encoded by gyrA and gyrB that is necessary to retain the DNA supercoil. Mutations in short regions of DNA gyrase are associated with quinolone resistance and take place in several MDR clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis. The new quinolone derivatives, isoniazid-fluoroquinolones and triazoloquinolone derivatives are new class of potent and selective anti-TB agents. The esters of triazoloquinolone derivatives are with absence of cytotoxicity. Furthermore, they are particularly interesting is their activity against MDR-TB and XDR-TB.

Nowadays customers and customer-orientation is one of the most important tools for competing other organizations. One of these tools is competitive intelligence which has been utilized in modern organizations today. In the current paper we tried to survey the relationship between competitive intelligence and customer satisfaction at Tourism Bank in Tehran. So two separated questionnaire about competitive intelligence and customer satisfaction were designed and after proving their validity and reliability distributed among statistical sample. The results of applying Chi Square and Friedman test show that there are positive and significant relationships between competitive intelligence and its dimensions include market intelligence, technologic intelligence and social intelligence on customer satisfaction. Meanwhile market intelligence is the most important one. Finally all research variables contain customer satisfaction, competitive intelligence and its dimensions were placed in favorable levels.

Acute Mylenoid Leukemia is a cancer of the blood or bone marrow and is characterized by an abnormal proliferation of blood cells, usually white blood cells. A number of genes are involved in regulating heamatopoiesis, and thereby affecting the susceptibility to Leukemia. Among them is the gene which is responsible for FMS like-tyrosine kinase-3 (FLT3). FLT3 is important protein that plays a role in cell proliferation and differentiation. In this work A 3D model of FLT3 was generated using 1RJB (Chain A: Crystal structure of Juxtamembrane domain of FLT3) as template with the help of Modeller7v7. With the aid of the molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics methods, the final model is obtained and is further assessed by Procheck and Verify 3D graph programs, which showed that the final refined model is reliable. After energy minimization we compared the 3D structure of FLT3 with template. We identified 21 genes coding for FLT3 and their locus regions. Multiple alignment and phylogenetic analysis showed that the total FLT3 family proteins formed 4 branches. From the result we identified mutations within FLT3 domain region.