Background: Among chemical dyes, Azo dyes, as environmental synthetic pollutants, are most commonly used in a bunch of different colors in different industries, especially in textile industry to a large extent.Methods: Due to some limitation and difficulties to remove these pollutants from the environment, the biological filtering method, as the ec
The conversion of organic waste and energy crops into fuel would help society by producing clean fuel from the regenerative feedstock.Industrial biofuels may be non-polluting and sustainable if properly linked with natural ecological cycles.A common method of producing heat and power from bioenergy is biomass gasification.Furthermore, pyrolysis and
Abstract Background Dietary high fructose (HFr) is a known metabolic disruptor contributing to development of obesity and diabetes in Western societies.Initial molecular changes from exposure to HFr on liver metabolism may be essential to understand the perturbations leading to insulin resistance and abnormalities in lipid and carbohydrate metaboli
Abstract Segmenting a liver and its peripherals from abdominal computed tomography is a crucial step toward computer aided diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.Despite the recent advances in computing methods, faithfully segmenting the liver has remained a challenging task, due to indefinite boundary, intensity inhomogeneity, and anatomical varia
Andrew Browning,1,2 Birhanu Menber21Maternity Africa, Arusha, Tanzania; 2Vision Maternity Care, Barhirdar, Ethiopia Objectives: To determine the impact of volunteer obstetricians and midwife teams on obstetric services in a rural hospital in Ethiopia.Methods: The intervention was undertaken in Mota district hospital, a rural hospital in the Amhara