The study was undertaken to investigate the effect of sesame oil in hypertensive patients who were on antihypertensive therapy either with diuretics (hydrochlorothiazide) or Beta-blockers (atenolol). Thirty-two male and 18 female patients aged 35 to 60 years old were supplied sesame oil (Idhayam gingelly oil) and instructed to use it as the only edible oil for 45 days. Blood pressure, anthropom...

SESAME is a security architecture that starts from the Kerberos protocol and adds to it public-key based authentication, role based access control, delegation of rights and an extensive auditing facility. SESAME provides the GSSAPI for securing applications and this paper describes our efforts in securing some of the most important Unix applications using SESAME: telnet, the BSD rtools and the ...

background and objectives: alkalinity stress caused by the alkaline salts such as na2co3 or nahco3 in the soil. alkaline stress affected germination, growth and crop productivity. moreover, the alkalinity stress can directly damage plant growth, alter the availability of nutrients, and disrupt the balance of ions and mineral nutrition. the application of different seed pretreatment methods is o...