Babao Dan (BBD), a traditional Chinese medicine, has been widely used as a complementary and alternative medicine to treat chronic liver diseases. In this study, we aimed to observe the protective effect of BBD on rat hepatic fibrosis induced by diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and explore it possible mechanism. BBD was administrated while DEN was given. After eight weeks, values of serum alanine amino...

For all industrial processes, modelling, optimisation and control are the keys to enhance productivity and ensure product quality. In the current study, the optimization of process parameters for improving the conversion of isoeugenol to vanillin by Psychrobacter sp. CSW4 was investigated by means of Taguchi approach and Box-Behnken statistical design under resting cell conditions. Taguchi desi...

We introduce a new divergence measure, the bounded Bhattacharyya distance (BBD), for quantifying the dissimilarity between probability distributions. BBD is based on the Bhattacharyya coefficient (fidelity) , and is symmetric, positive semi-definite, and bounded. Unlike the Kullback-Leibler divergence, BBD does not require probability density functions to be absolutely continuous with respect t...

Chromatin on the mammalian inactive X chromosome differs in a number of ways from that on the active X. One protein, macroH2A, whose amino terminus is closely related to histone H2A, is enriched on the heterochromatic inactive X chromosome in female cells. Here, we report the identification and localization of a novel and more distant histone variant, designated H2A-Bbd, that is only 48% identi...

The presence of humic acid (HA) in water treatment processes is very harmful and the cause of undesirable color, taste, and smell. Drinking water containing high concentrations of humic substances can be the cause of many health problems. Therefore, the removal of these compounds from water resources is a very important topic. In this research, response surface methodology (RSM) has been used t...

In the present research, salting out and vortex assisted dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction based on solidification of floating organic drop microextraction (SO-VADLLME-SFODME)  for the extraction and determination of phenol and chlorophenols in water samples followed by HPLC have been studied through a novel, simple, low-cost, selectable and environment friendly (so called green) method....

PURPOSE It is well established that exposures during childhood and adolescence affect breast cancer risk much later in life. Recently, studies have begun to evaluate whether early life exposures might also impact the risk of developing benign breast disease (BBD). A diagnosis of proliferative BBD independent of other breast cancer risk factors also increases the subsequent risk of breast cancer...

Toluene diamine (TDA) is a main carcinogenic aromatic pollutant in some industrial wastewater. In this study, the reverse osmosis with DSS-HR98PP as the membrane was employed for the removal of TDA in an aqueous environment. The Box–Behnken Design (BBD) of the experimentwas used to consider the effect of operational variables such as pressure, pH and the feed volu...

Background & Aims of the Study: One of the most carcinogenic and toxic pollutants is p-Nitro Cresol. In this study, the degradation and mineralization of p-Nitro Cresol in aqueous solution were investigated by Fenton process in a batch reactor. Materials & Methods: This study is an experimental research on a laboratory scale. The study executed on synthetic wastewater hav...

Discrete element simulation is an effective method to reveal the interaction between tillage components and work objects. However, due lack of discrete modelling parameters maize root its mixture with soil, existing models cannot accurately simulate farmland environment under a no-tillage system. This study developed single (SMR) different diameters root-soil (MRSM) DEM based on calibrated thro...