Reeds biomass has been successfully extracted. It calcinated with annealing temperatures at 800 °C (A800), 850 (A850), and 900 (A900). The x-ray pattern showed that it a cristoballite (SiO2) crystal structure. band gap energy values are 3.8 eV, 3.7 eV 4.7 respectively. FTIR spectra show the groups silanol, siloxane, monohydride. Quantitatively, provide results to determine optical properties di...

While IT infrastructures integration (ITII) along supply chains helps enhance chains’ efficiency and effectiveness, the lack of ITII is still one of the critical failure factors for supply chain management. As such, it is imperative to understand the drivers for ITII adoption. Based on the perspective of social network, we derive a model to examine the effects of dominant firms’ mediated and no...

While IT infrastructures integration (ITII) along supply chains helps enhance chains’ efficiency and effectiveness, the lack of ITII is still one of the critical failure factors for supply chain management. As such, it is imperative to understand the drivers for ITII adoption. Based on the perspective of social network, we derive a model to examine the effects of dominant firms’ mediated and no...

Rice is a staple food for at least 50% of the world’s population. Therefore, it is one of the most important crop plants on Earth (Lucca et al., 2002). However, milled rice is a poor source of essential micronutrients such as Fe and Zn (Bouis and Welch, 2010), whose deficiencies affect over three billion people worldwide, mostly in developing countries (Welch and Graham, 2004). Fe and Zn malnut...

Measurement of radon is very important in dwellings because of its radiological impact on public health. Radon contributes more than half of the total ionizing radiation dose. It is known from the recent surveys in many countries that radon is the second cause of lungs cancer after smoking. In this context, we have measured radon ( 222 Rn) concentration in different dwellings of Kathmandu valle...

The existence of intratumor phenotypic heterogeneity was described a few decades ago, but the biological impact of this clonal diversity remains unknown. In 1976, Peter Nowell stated in Science that tumors arise from a single cell that has undergone several expansion rounds and whose descendants eventually acquire genetic aberrations. He also posited that additional mutational events would driv...

Inspired by the numerous social and economic benefits of diversity [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], we analyze over 9 million papers and 6 million scientists spanning 24 fields of study, to understand the relationship between research impact and five types of diversity, reflecting (i) ethnicity, (ii) discipline, (iii) gender, (iv) affiliation and (v) academic age. For each type, we study group diversity (i....

Agricultural applications of chemical fertilizers are a world wide practice. The specific activity of uranium-238 and heavy metals in phosphate fertilizers depends on the phosphate ore from which the fertilizer produced and on the chemical processing of the ore. Composite phosphate fertilizers samples where collected and the uranium-238 specific activity, in Bq/kg, and As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Se concen...

Fractures cause an enormous burden on the individual and on society worldwide. In the Round Table discussion that begins on page 416 of this issue, the impact on the individual is described by Delmas and Fraser in terms of mortality and morbidity, and the effect on quality of life is clearly described through personal experience in a discussion article by Anna Peckham. The economic costs to hea...

IL-17A, a key cytokine in the inflammation of psoriasis, is upregulated psoriatic skin and stimulates transcriptional activity correlating with psoriasis transcriptome (Chiricozzi et al., 2011Chiricozzi A. Guttman-Yassky E. Suárez-Fariñas M. Nograles K.E. Tian S. Cardinale I. al.Integrative responses to IL-17 TNF-? human keratinocytes account for inflammatory pathogenic circuits psoriasis.J Inv...