Background: The objective of the present study was to investigate the possible effect of Tanopati on induced hypercholesterolemia in rats and hypertension in rabbits. Methods: Twenty wistar rats were divided into 4 groups each and then subjected to different treatments. Hypercholesterolemia was induced by induced dietary cholesterol; the rats are then treated with Tanopati and Questran®) Sixteen rabbits males, divided in four lots with four rabbits each, were used in this study. Hypertension was induced by adrenalin (1 mg/ml for 2 weeks intramuscularly) in the lots 2 to 4. After induction of hypertension in animals, they were treated with the extract of Tanopati. The cardiovascular parameters of rabbits (systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR) was taken with an electric manometer. These three cardiovascular parameters were then compared to the witness group. Results: The treatment with the Tanopati and with Questran® significantly improved (p <0.05) these parameters by decreasing the concentrations of total cholesterol, triglyceride and LDL-cholesterol against an elevation of HDL cholesterol levels. After 8 days of treatments on rabbits induced hypertension with Tanopati or with Tenordate®, cardiovascular parameters decreased significantly up to their normalization values. Conclusions: The results obtained confirm the antihypertensive effect of Tanopati and justify it traditionally use in treatment of high blood pressure.

Electricity was one of the most important discoveries of science. Humanity in these generations depends much on the usage of electricity. The modern technology cannot exist without this electricity. Energy consumption was higher with manual controllers as compared to automated controllers. Around 300% increased when the said manual controllers were not managed carefully, especially during weekends. Study shows that during weekend some of the employees leave the room forget to check the switch status especially when the power failure occurs during the last hour of office time. The use of automated controllers was more efficient as compare to manual controllers. The design consideration of automated controllers includes the power management of the controller itself was necessary in order to minimized fires caused by appliance.

The issue of whether the learners’ mother tongue should be used in the classroom has always been a subject of current debate by many researchers. This paper attempts to investigate the perception of English in-service-trainees towards the use of students’ mother tongue, Afan Oromo in this case, in EFL classes. The participants were 72English summer in-service trainees who came from West Arsi and Guji Zones of Oromiya region to pursue their degree program in 2016 summer program (for two months) at Hawassa University. Data were collected through a questionnaire and semi structure interview. The results indicated that EFL teachers have positive perception towards the use of Afan Oromo in their EFL classrooms. The study also confirms that the use of Afan Oromo language was to explain new vocabulary especially abstract items, to explain new concepts, to help students develop their confidence, to give instructions, to raise students’ awareness of the differences and similarities between L1 and the target language, to help students to complete pair/ small-group works activities, to facilitate complicated English classroom tasks, to help students to express their feelings and ideas when they fail to do that in English, to build up a good rapport with students, to explain the English idioms and expressions, and to introduce new grammatical rules in order of importance.

In this paper we have presented the simulation and analysis of the channel field, potential, mobility, hole concentration, and the threshold voltage of pentacene thin film transistor with gate metal work function and gate insulator thickness. The top contact transistor from pentacene active material, paryelene dielectric and gold source/drain electrodes, has been used for our simulation. The simulations have been performed using Silvaco’s Atlas device simulator. The Poole-Frenkel transport model was used in the pentacene active material. The results of the simulation have shown an impact of the gate metal work function on threshold voltage, channel potential, channel charge concentration, channel field, and mobility of the device.

Maritime anthropology is a sub-field devoted to the study of coastal cultures from an anthropological perspective that was popular in the mid-1970s (Casteel and Quimby 1975; Smith 1977a; Spoehr 1980; Acheson 1981). In other areas of the world, such as the American Northwest, Southwest California, the Pacific Islands, North Atlantic regions and the circumpolar zone, this field has identified the importance of marine resources and their role in the development of social complexity in the past (Casteel and Quimby 1975; Fitzhugh 1975; Dumond 1998; Kirch 1995; Arnold 1993; Arnold et al. 2004; Ames and Maschner 1999). Maritime fishing communities can be defined, from a functional perspective, as human groups who have an emphasis on the exploitation of maritime environments. They may not be exclusively dependent on the maritime environment. As a consequence, they have developed and adapted a unique technology, which is highly variable and open to rapid changes in order to optimize its function and costs (Yesner et al. 1980). From a social perspective, fishing settlements can be defined as groups who identify themselves as maritime people but who perform a highly variable and different set of activities according to the available resources. Thus, they could be part-time farmers, part-time traders or part-time craft specialists.

Background: The carriage of Coagulase Negative Staphylococci in the anterior nares of subjects in the study environment has not been investigated before and this study is thus a reference study against which future studies can be compared. The isolates obtained were also tested against frequently used antibiotics as well as linezolid, an antibiotic which is of considerable importance in the treatment of Multidrug resistant staphylococci. Methods: A total of 400 nasal swabs were collected from anterior nares of apparently healthy subjects aseptically using a sterile swab sticks. The antibiotic susceptibilities of isolates of S. aureus obtained against eight different antibiotics including Linezolid were determined using the disc-plate method. Results: The results showed that 136(34.03%) of the subjects tested are nasal carriers of CoNS: S. epidermidis 50(36.76%) which is the most prevalent. This is followed by S. haemolyticus 41(30.15%), S. saprophyticus 13(9.56%), S. hominis 10(7.35%), S. cohnii 8(5.88%), while S. lugdunensis and S. xylosus were 7(5.15%) each. The incidences of resistance observed with each of the antibiotics tested were as follow: Erythromycin 112(82.4%), Tetracycline 108(79.4%), Cotrimoxazole 94(69.1%), Cefoxitin 80(58.8%), Linezolid 75(55.1%), Ciprofloxacin 66(48.5%), Augmentin 43(31.6%) and Gentamycin 31(22.8%). Conclusion: Treatment of CoNS infections within the study environment should be based on the results of in vitro susceptibility testing of the isolates. Gentamicin and Augmentin promises to be the best antibiotic for the treatment of disorders associated with Staphylococci in the study area. This is of special importance in an environment within which a very substantial proportion of the isolates are resistant to methicillin and linezolid.

Como estudiosos de lo social nos esforzamos siempre por comprender las formas de relacionarnos; tratamos de encontrar la comprensión en los fenómenos sociales que nos vinculan, los unos con los otros; aunque también, hoy en día, se vuelve trascendente la ingente necesidad de liberarse. Actualmente la necesidad ingente de transparentar las fuerzas coercitivas, que normalmente carentes de sentido, son destructivas y causan el sufrimiento a muchos individuos, fuerzas que permanentemente actúen como poderes que hoy nos dominan. Pareciera que la labor del sociólogo y del científico social, en la actualidad es comprender la naturaleza del poder para ayudar a dirigirlo de tal modo que su curso cobre menos vidas, cause menos estragos y sea menos absurdo. Nuestra labor se convierte entonces en una investigación, cuyas pautas de conceptualización se vinculan con las diferentes coacciones a las que son sometidas determinados sujetos.

Three (3) indigenous bacteria species (Bacillus spp, Acinectobacterspp and Moraxella spp) previously isolated from contaminated soil of some auto mechanic workshops were used for bioremediation studies on some irrigation water used at Sarkin-nomaFadama farms located in LokojaKogi State, Nigeria. This was done in order to investigate their bioremediation potentials using a simple pour plate method. The physicochemical parameters and heavy metal analysis (using AAS iCE 3000) of the irrigation water were performed before and after inoculation of the isolated organisms. Nitrate and phosphate concentration were found to be 10.56mg/L and 12.63mg/L prior to inoculation while iron and zinc were 0.9569mg/L and 0.2245mg/L respectively. Other physico- chemical parameters were also observed to be high prior to inoculation. After the bioremediation test (inoculation with the isolated organisms), a nitrate and phosphate content of 2.53mg/L and 2.61mg/L were recorded respectively, iron and zinc gave 0.1694mg/L and 0.0174mg/L concentrations while other physicochemical parameters measured were also found to be lower in their respective values. The implication of this present study is that a number of carefully isolated indigenous bacteria species are capable of reducing the amount of heavy metal concentrations in water. Also, non-metallic contaminants like nitrate and phosphate are susceptible to bioremediation in the presence of such efficient system.

This study was carried out in four districts of Punjab province of Pakistan with a focus to examine milk market integration, price adjustments and price spreads in short-run and long-run equilibrium for fluid milk. Price transmission describes how a price change at one level of market chain corresponds to another level. Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was applied to estimate the symmetry of price transmission. Monthly average prices of milk producer and consumer covering the period from 2010 to 2016 were used in the empirical analysis. Seasonality was an important factor in milk production and was kept in account. Stationarity between farm and retail prices was examined through Augmented-Dicky Fuller (ADF) test whereas, the nature of long-term co-integration among price series was estimated by Johansen co-integration test.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of individual-based, firm-based, and market factors on job retention, basing its hypotheses on human capital theory and signalling models. Design/methodology/approaches: Cluster sampling method was utilized for this research. This research is conducted to determine the employee retention factors in selected industries. Upon selecting the 4 industry and 4 organizations, the designed questionnaires were equally distributed to all the 4 organization with 50 questionnaires for each. Again, from many organizations in one industry we select the most accessible organization and distributed the questionnaires to 50 respondents. This would be the applicable for all other 3 industries and organization. Findings: Growth and development, working culture and environment, remuneration, recognition and empowerment are motivating factors in an organization that are primary causes of job satisfaction leading to retention.