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Research Articles

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SEDIMENTATION DUE TO FLOODS IN THE IMMEDIATE UPSTREAM OF TARBELA DAM (INDUS RIVER), PAKISTAN

Abid Hussain, A. H. Malik, Abid Sheikh and Iftikhar A. Raja

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Keywords: Sedimentation, Floods, Tarbela Dam, Indus River, Pakistan, Water Resources Management, Flood Risk Management

ABSTRACT\nThe water reservoirs in Pakistan face the problem of sedimentation. Particularly the Tarbela Dam’s water storage capacity is rapidly decreasing, since it construction in 1974. River floods...

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Mandibular asymmetries in the domestic pig according to age

Pere M. Parés-Casanova

Department of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Barcelona, Spain

Keywords: geometric morphometrics, mandible, skull, symmetry

A sample of 41 dentulous dry mandibles from adult domestic pigs were studied in order to compare both the right and left sides according to age. Samples were grouped according to dental status: “sub...

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A NOVEL LOW POWER, HIGH SPEED ASYNCHRONOUS SRAM DESIGN

Mansi Jhamb

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India

Keywords: PSpice , SRAM ,Handshaking ,VHDL, XILINX ISE, CMOS

In the current scenario, with the increasing integration densities, most system-on-chip designs are migrating towards asynchronous logic .In this paper a novel asynchronous SRAM design, operating with...

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Chemoprophylactic and Hemato-serological effects of anti-diarrheal drugs against Neonatal Calf Diarrhea

Muhammad Athar khan, Khawar Mahboob, Arslan Tariq, Kiran Aqil, Muhammad Saeed

Department of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Keywords: Calf, Neonatal calf diarrhea, antidiarrheal drugs, Chemo-prophylactic effect

Neonatal calf diarrhea is supposed to be the main cause of production losses in dairy industry in Pakistan. This usually occurs due to improper management of calf after parturition or in early hours o...

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The responses in trunks increments of park trees to technical works affecting root zone

Beata Fortuna-Antoszkiewicz,\nJan Lukaszkiewicz

Department of Botany, University of Warsaw, Poland

Keywords: historical urban parks; park stands; diameter at breast height (dbh); infrastructure upgrading; black locust; common lime; Norway maple.

Understanding tree growth is important for tasks such as maintenance and preservation of urban historical parks. One of the major components of such parks is sure a stand. Ageing trees are in a state ...

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New data on the distribution of Phloeosinus aubei Perris (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and its parasitoids in Romania

Nicolai Olenici, Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Milos Knizek, Valentina Olenici

Department of Entomology, University of Bucharest, Romania

Keywords: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Curculionidae, Pteromalidae, Eurytomidae, Phloeosinus aubei, Metacolus fasciatus, Eurytoma morio, Thuja occidentalis, distribution, parasitoids

Phloeosinus aubei (Perris, 1855) (the cypress bark beetle), a bark beetle living on Cupressaceae species, was previously recorded in Romania only at Orşova, in the warmest area of Romania, with sub-M...

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Enhanced Secure Routing Model for MANET

Vinay Kumar Pandey\n1\nDr. Harvir Singh\n2

Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

Keywords: MANET security, secure protocol, mobility, AADS mod\nel, SMART

Mobile Ad-hoc Network is group of wireless mobile d\nevice with restricted broadcast range and no use of base Infrastructure. The secure routing model helps for reduced honest elicitation and free rid...

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In vitro antibacterial activity of Vitex altissima L. against selected pathogenic bacteria

Sahaya Sathish S, Janakiraman N, Johnson M

Department of Microbiology, University of Madras, Chennai, India

Keywords: Vitex altissima, antibacterial, bioactivity, disc diffusion assay, pharmaceutical.

The aim of this research was to investigate the phytochemical and in vitro antibacterial efficacy of the ethanolic, acetone, petroleum ether and chloroform extracts of Vitex altissima L. (Verbenaceae)...

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Comparison of Adsorption Isotherms of Bromocresol green and Bromothymol blue by Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Molecular Sieves with the Models of Langmuir, Freundlich, Temkin

Robert Thompson, Michael Anderson

Faculty of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Keywords: isotherms, Bromothymol blue , Bromocresol green , multi-walled carbon\nnanotubes, carbon molecular sieve.

This research showed the influence of the concentration of the fraction of the\nsurface covered by Freundlich model for the adsorbed Bromocresol green by carbon\nmolecular sieve with amount of 99% and...

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Fractional LMF Algorithm for a Novel Spatial-Temporal MIMO Beamforming Architecture

Jawwad Ahmed and Muhammad Moinuddin

Department of Electrical Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Keywords: Beamforming, MIMO systems, adaptive algorithm, fractional calculus, LMF

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system performance is limited due to inter symbol and inter stream interferences. We have proposed a novel MIMO beamforming architecture to combat these issues. O...

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