Storage and transportation conditions of goods need to be often controlled because of their sensitivity for elevated temperature or other environmental factors (like for example humidity). Nowadays, such a control is carried out mostly using indicators or complicated and expensive sensors. The last one contains batteries and other electronic components and performs a function of a recorder. Bec...

The elucidation of mechanisms in semilunar valve development might enable the development of new therapies for congenital heart disorders. Here, we found differences in proliferation-associated genes and genes repressed by VEGF between human semilunar valve leaflets from first and second trimester hearts. The proliferation of valve interstitial cells and ventricular valve endothelial cells (VEC...

The project entails the implementation of a web firewall for the LUMS community having the features of filtering traffic on the basis of specified rules. The filtering criterion includes content as well as the source and destination addresses. Moreover, it allows monitoring of individual users through keeping record of their searches made on famous search engines. The firewall is incorporated i...

Study Tips Hints to help you review more effectively. Answer Sheets Write the letter of the correct answer for the questions in the review tests. Although only one set of answer sheets are included, you can take these tests as often as you want. Review Session A 100-multiple-choice question Review Session to help you determine where you need more study emphasis. However, be aware that none of t...

Studying infectious diseases requires suitable hosts for experimental in vivo infections.Recent yearshaveseen theadvent ofmanyalternatives to murine infection models. However, the use of non-mammalian models is still controversial because it is often unclear howwell findings from these systems predict virulence potential in humans or other mammals. Here, we compare the commonly used models, fru...

X-ray powder diffraction is one of the most potential characterization tools and a nondestructive technique for characterizing both organic and inorganic crystalline materials. The method previously used for measuring phase identification, quantitative analysis and to determine structure imperfections of samples from various disciplines such as geology, polymeric, environmental, pharmaceutical,...

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi 780-850 AD The word " algebra " is taken from the title of one of his books.