Background: Sun protection materials have been one of the major concerns in pharmaceutical industry since almost one century ago. Various materials have been found to have such an effect but there are still many unknown substances that have not been discovered.Objective: To introduce a novel mineral-based sun lotion with considerable UV absorption properties compared to commercially available s...

This paper describes the Translational English Corpus (TEC) and the software tools developed in order to enable the use of the corpus remotely, over the internet. The model underlying these tools is based on an extensible client-server architecture implemented in Java. We discuss the data and processing constraints which motivated the TEC architecture design and its impact on the efficiency and...

Cardiovascular disease has become a major healthcare problem. To tackle this along with bypass surgery, the use of the Cardiovascular Stent is considered promising and effective. In this study, we aim to find the effectiveness of stent deployments and their influence on haemodynamics post their deployment. For the study we have reconstructed single unit of two commercially available stent desig...

We describe an interaction technique for controlling site-specific mobile services using commercially available camera-phones, public information displays and visual tags. We report results from an experimental study validating this technique in terms of pointing speed and accuracy. Our results show that even novices can use camera-phones to “point-and-click” on visual tags quickly and accurate...

background: egg yolk is the main cryoprotectant agent in semen freezing extenders which is used in order to protect spermatozoa against cold shock. however elimination of animal bioproducts from the cryopreservation protocol is becoming mandatory. therefore the aim of this study is to compare a previously studied homemade soya bean lecithin based extender with a commercially available extender ...