Guava (Psidium guajava L.), is adapted to an extensive range of soils, however, its development is strongly affected by salinity. Environmental stresses are of the major and influential factors in the amount of secondary metabolites, especially phenolic compounds present in plants. The purpose of this investigation was to study the leaf antioxidant and flavonoid contents (catechin, quercetin an...

In sub-10nm FinFETs, Line-edge-roughness (LER) and metal-gate granularity (MGG) are the two most dominant sources of variability mostly modeled semi-empirically. this work, compact models LER MGG used. We show an accurate process-induced (PIV) aware model-based circuit performance estimation for Design-Technology Co-optimization (DTCO). This work is carried out using experimentally validated BS...

This paper presents a new approach to handle constrained optimization using evolutionary algorithms. The new technique converts constrained optimization to a two-objective optimization: one is the original objective function, the other is the degree function violating the constraints. By using Paretodominance in the multi-objective optimization, individual's Pareto strength is defined. Based on...

The objective of the present work was to enhance the solubility and dissolution of practically water-insoluble drug raloxifene HCl (RLX), for the same two approaches that were used. In the first approach, drug was kneaded with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPβCD), and in the second one drug was cogrinded with modified guar gum (MGG). The drug-cyclodextrin complex and drug-MGG cogrind mixtures w...

Mg-Al-CO3 Layered double hydroxide (LDH) was prepared by co-precipitation method at constant pH, and subsequently used to remove Evans Blue (EB) and Yellow thiazole (YT) dyes from aqueous solutions. The obtained material was characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), thermal analysis and BET. The kinetic and equilibrium aspects of sorption ...

Interpretation of the protected specimen brush (PSB) technique is based on quantitative bacterial cultures (QC), which unfortunately requires at least 24 h. We prospectively compared the diagnostic value of direct examination (DE) and QC of PSB specimens in 75 patients with suspected pneumonia. We also determined the optimal technique for DE. QC was performed using the serial dilution technique...

Four sources of variability, metal grain granularity (MGG), line-edge roughness (LER), gate-edge (GER), and random discrete dopants (RDD), affecting the performance state-of-the-art FinFET, nanosheet (NS), nanowire (NW) FETs, are analysed via our in-house 3D finite-element drift-diffusion/Monte Carlo simulator that includes 2D Schrödinger equation quantum corrections. The MGG LER variability in...

In the paper an algorithm for automatic detection of red blood cells in microscopic images is described and investigated. For this purpose digital microscopic images stained by means of the MGG (May-Grunwald-Giemsa) method are applied. This method consists in three main stages. The first one is composed of the conversion to binary image using the modified histogram thresholding. The second one ...