blends of sorghum and soybean flours were processed in a co-rotating twin screw extruder to prepare expanded product. response surface methodology (rsm) was used to study the effect of soya level (sl), feed moisture (fm), barrel temperature (bt) and screw speed (ss) on extruder system parameters and physical properties of the extrudate. response variables were product temperature (pt), motor to...

Time, cost and quality have their proven importance as the prime measures for project success. However, the history of the construction industry worldwide is full of projects that were completed with significant time and cost overruns. This study is conducted to investigate the occurrence frequency of time overrun causes in road construction projects in the West Bank in Palestine from contracto...

Please (2012), Summary. — Microcredit and small and medium enterprise (SME) finance are often pitched as alternative strategies to create employment opportunities in low-income communities. So far, though, little is known about how employment patterns compare. We integrate evidence from three surveys to show that, compared to Bangladeshi microcredit customers, typical SME employees in Banglades...

The principal purpose of this review article is to discover what insights on the financial management of small and medium-sized enterprises the rapidly emerging field of Behavioural Finance can provide. The evolution of Behavioural Finance as a scholarly field is first reviewed. Thereafter, the growing literature in the relatively new field of Entrepreneurial Cognition is also reviewed. The pap...

The aim of this study was to investigate the cytoprotective properties of the ethyl acetate fraction of Sargassum muticum (SME) against ultraviolet B (UVB)-induced cell damage in human keratinocytes (HaCaT cells). SME exhibited scavenging activity toward the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radicals and hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) and UVB-induced intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS). SME a...

The OCCIware project aims at building a comprehensive, coherent while modular model-driven toolchain for managing any kinds of cloud resources, especially Data Center as a Service, Deployment as a Service, Big Data as a Service, and Linked Open Data as a Service. Leveraging the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) and its core model, the OCCIware toolchain applies a model-driven engineering ap...

OBJECTIVES An increasing prevalence since 2010 of Serratia marcescens harbouring the Ambler class A carbapenemase SME prompted us to further characterize these isolates. METHODS Isolates harbouring bla(SME) were identified by PCR and sequencing. Phenotypic analysis for carbapenemase activity was carried out by a modified Hodge test and a modified Carba NP test. Antimicrobial susceptibilities ...

Secure multi-execution (SME) is a promising black-box technique for enforcing information flow properties. Unlike traditional static or dynamic language-based techniques, SME satisfies noninterference (soundness) by construction and is also precise. SME executes a given program twice. In one execution, called the high run, the program receives all inputs, but the program’s public outputs are su...

We consider a bargaining problem where one of the players, the intellectual property rights owner (IPRO) can allocate licenses for the use of this property among the interested parties (agents). The agents negotiate with him the allocation of licenses and the payments of the licensees to the IPRO. We state …ve axioms and characterize the bargaining solutions which satisfy these axioms. In a sol...

BACKGROUND Sonchus arvesis is traditionally reported in various human ailments including hepatotoxicity in Pakistan. Presently we designed to assess the protective effects of methanolic extract of Sonchus arvesis against carbon tetrachloride induced genotoxicity and DNA oxidative damages in hepatic tissues of experimental rats. METHODS 36 male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 6 ...