This contribution addresses the questions:  Why International Standards?  What is ISO?  How does ISO develop standards? The focus are the Key principles in standard development: 1. ISO standards respond to a need in the market 2. ISO standards are based on global expert opinion 3. ISO standards are developed through a multi-stakeholder process 4. ISO standards are based on a consensus Finall...

Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The effect of flunixin meglumine (FM) on MI is unknown. We investigated the protective effect of FM on the serum biochemical profile, malondialdehyde (MDA), and heart histology changes induced by isoproterenol (ISO) in adult male rats. Methods: Rats were randomly divided into four groups of six eac...

The ‘Abb®sid caliphs al-Ma’m‚n and al-Mu‘ta◊im, who between them reigned from 198 to 227 A.H. (813-842 A.D.) are best-known to historians of philosophy for two things. First, they supported a massive translation project that had already begun in the previous century with al-Ma’m‚n’s grandfather, al-Man◊‚r. The result was that many of the most important works of Greek philosophy and science were...

In annotating measure expressions such as three days and about 123 km, two recently published ISO standards, ISO-TimeML (ISO, 2012b) and ISOspace (ISO, 2014a), show some inconsistencies, as pointed out in ISO SemAF Principles (ISO, 2014c), a third ISO standards on semantic annotation to be published soon. Other than terminological or semantic inconsistencies introduced in ISO SemAF Principles, ...

Sympathetic nerve activity increases in the heart during cardiac failure. Here, we hypothesized that 1 integrins play a protective role in chronic -adrenergic receptor–stimulated cardiac myocyte apoptosis and heart failure. L-isoproterenol (iso; 400 g/kg per hour) was infused in a group of wild-type (WT) and 1 integrin heterozygous knockout (hKO) mice. Left ventricular structural and functional...

heat stress is a significant occupational health and safety for workers in petrochemical industries. heat stress is a combination of heat load individual and environmental factors impose on workers’ bodies, which in turn, have impacts on workers’ performance, safety, and health. the present paper is carried out to determine the heat stress levels in workplace and to compare it with allowed wet ...

By means of EPR spectroscopy the behaviour of the vanadocene dichloride (I), Cp(2)VCl(2) (Cp=eta(5)-C(5)H(5)), in various deoxygenated and non-deoxygenated physiological media and therapeutic solution as well as in blood plasma and stabilized human blood was studied. On the basis of measured values of isotropic spectroscopic splitting factor g(iso) and isotropic hyperfine coupling constant A(is...

The Frege-Russell view is that existence is a second-order property rather than a property of individuals. One of the most compelling arguments for this view is based on the premise that there is an especially close connection between existence and number. The most promising version of this argument is by C.J.F. Williams (1981, 1992). In what follows, I argue that this argument fails. I then de...

Surface samples have been collected from Kerala coast, Valapatanam-Azhikode deposit of northern Kerala coast. The average heavy minerals percentage shows 30.32 %. The heavy mineral assemblage of samples from area showed an appreciable percentage of opaque followed by sillimanite and zircon. The chemical analysis carried out for the present investigation, is detailed as Ferrian ilmenite. X-ray d...

A recent physiological finding of neural coding for border ownership (BO) that defines the direction of a figure with respect to the border has provided a possible basis for figure-ground segregation. To explore the underlying neural mechanisms of BO, we investigated stimulus configurations that activate BO circuitry through psychophysical investigation of the BO-dependent tilt aftereffect (BO-...