introduction while primary malignant tumors of the heart are rare, angiosarcomas are the most common cardiac malignant tumors. case presentation we describe a 23-year-old woman who presented with a right atrial mass, which was discovered to be a cardiac angiosarcoma. we demonstrate the use of several noninvasive imaging modalities along with pathology confirmation for the definitive and compreh...

nowadays biodiesel is receiving more attention as a most important renewable energy for using in diesel engines. inthis research, the application of response surface methodology (rsm) was highlighted to investigate the effects of biodiesel-diesel blends (b0, b20, b50 and b100), engine operating parameters (engine load and  speed) on co2 emission of a diesel engine. the experiments were conducte...

with the aim of identifying failure mechanism in oriented strand boards, failure behavior of wood strands under tensile load was investigated using acoustic emission technique. resinated and unresinated strands were arranged at top, middle and bottom section of the board before pressing. tensile and acoustic emission tests were performed simultaneously on treated and control samples. using tens...

TIGER integral-field spectrography and Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 imaging of the E3 galaxy NGC 2974 are used to derive the kinematics of the stellar and ionized gas components in its central 500 pc. We derive a numerical two-integral distribution function from a Multi-Gaussian Expansion (MGE) mass model using the Hunter & Qian formalism. The TIGER as well as published long-slit stellar kinema...

an ever-increasing drift of energy consumption, unequal geographical distribution of natural wealth and the quest for low carbon fuel for a cleaner environment are sparking the production and use of biodiesels in many countries around the globe. in this work, jatropha and karanja biodiesels were produced from the respective crude vegetable oils through transesterification, and the different phy...

We present SAURON integral field spectrography of the central 1.5 kpc of the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, encompassing the well-known near-infrared inner bar observed in the K band. We have successively disentangled the respective contributions of the ionized gas and stars, thus deriving their two-dimensional distribution and kinematics. The [Oiii] and Hβ emission lines exhibit very differ...

acacia nilotica (thorn mimosa) is used locally for various medicinal purposes by traditionalists and herbalists in northeastern nigeria. plants products have been used since ancient times in the management of various conditions. the bark of a. nilotica has been reported to be used traditionally to manage diabetes, dysentery, leprosy, ulcers, cancers, tumor of the eye, ear and testicles, indurat...

The aim of our research was to investigate theeffect of the length of the polymer chain and the concen-tration of triethyl citrate used as a plasticizer on the thermalstability of the film structure in the case of two ethyl cel-lulose films (EC 10 and EC 45) used for preparing MRdosage forms. The influence of storage time was studied bymonitoring the changes in the therm...

the present paper is aimed at describing a “closed cycle” power plant schematic (soft, solar oxygen fuel turbine) with macroalgae (seaweed) cultivation in a pond, combustion of its organic matter in a fluidized bed boiler of rankine cycle and return of the combustion products to the pond to feed algae. the oxygen used for combustion is released to atmosphere in photosynthesis. as a renewable fu...