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A new cytotoxic diterpenoid glycoside from the leaves of Blumea lacera and its effects on apoptosis and cell cycle
A new diterpenoid glycoside, 6E,10E,14Z-(3S)-17-hydroxygeranyllinalool-17-O-β-d-glucopyranosyl-(1 → 2)-[α-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 6)]-β-d-glucopyranoside (1) together with the known diterpenoid glycoside (2) and two known ... -
A new cytotoxic steroidal glycoalkaloid from the methanol extract of Blumea lacera leaves
PURPOSE: Blumea lacera (B. lacera) (Asteraceae) is a well-known Bangladeshi medicinal plant. This study aimed to identify and characterize constituents associated with the significant cytotoxic activity of this plant that ... -
A new multilevel solar panel system for urban areas
(© 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)A new multilevel solar panel system is proposed for its use in urban residential solar home systems. The proposed system consists of three panels mounted in a rack one above another at a fixed distance from each other to ... -
A new routing algorithm for symmetric rearrangeable networks and emerging applications
(© 2012 IEEE, 2012)An excavation tele-robotic system is developed to excavate and collect lunar regolith. The excavator has been developed by the team BRACU ChondroBot consisting students from BRAC University for NASA's 2nd Annual Lunabotics ... -
New traveling wave solutions by the extended generalized Riccati equation mapping method of the (2 + 1) -dimensional evolution equation
(© 2012 Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012)The generalized Riccati equation mapping is extended with the basic (G ′ / G) -expansion method which is powerful and straightforward mathematical tool for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, ... -
New traveling wave solutions of the higher dimensional nonlinear evolution equation by the improved (G′/G) expansion method
(© 2012 World Applied Sciences Journal, 2012)In this article, we investigate the nonlinear evolution equation, namely, the (3+l)-dimensional modified KdV-Zakharov-Kuznetsev equation by applying the improved (G′/G)-expansion method to construct some new traveling wave ... -
New traveling wave solutions of the higher dimensional nonlinear partial differential equation by the exp-function method
(© 2012 Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012)We construct new analytical solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional modified KdV-Zakharov-Kuznetsev equation by the Exp-function method. Plentiful exact traveling wave solutions with arbitrary parameters are effectively obtained ... -
The next WHO director-general's highest priority: a global treaty on the human right to health
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Night mode face recognition using adaptively weighted sub-pattern PCA
(© 2012 IEEE, 2012)The face recognition problem is made difficult by the great variability in head rotation and tilt, lighting intensity and angle, facial expression, aging, partial occlusion (e.g. Wearing Hats, scarves, glasses etc.), etc. ... -
Night mode prohibitory traffic signs detection
(© 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2013)Prohibitory traffic signs play an important role in guiding, warning and regulating traffic system. As driving over the speed limit is often the major cause of accidents, detecting this group of prohibitory signs may reduce ... -
Noninstitutional births and newborn care practices among adolescent mothers in Bangladesh
(© 2011 JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 2011)Objective: To describe home-based newborn care practices among adolescent mothers in Bangladesh and to identify sociodemographic, antenatal care (ANC), and delivery care factors associated with these practices. Design: The ... -
Nontraditional security challenges in South Asia
(© 2012 by The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2012)This NBR Monograph examines maritime security issues in Southeast Asia, including disputes over resources, piracy, and other threats to strategic waterways, and draws implications for U.S. policy in the region. -
Not friend, not foe: the rocky road of enfranchisement of Muslims into multicultural nationhood in Australia and New Zealand
(© 2008 Immigrants and Minorities., 2008)This paper compares the images of citizenship available through multicultural policy provisions to the Muslim minority in Australia and New Zealand. Its enfranchisement is fraught with difficulties in both countries. A ... -
A novel approach of improving battery performance and longevity of the developed electrically assisted triwheeler vehicle by implementing torque sensor technology
(© 2017 Hindawi Limited, 2017)This paper presents a new approach to improving the battery performance and its longevity by the implementation of torque sensor pedal technology on the developed electric triwheeler vehicle (i.e., wheelchair). The paper ... -
A novel modified SFTA approach for feature extraction
(© 2016 IEEE, 9/22/2016)To increase the efficiency of conventional Segmentation Based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA), we propose a new approach on SFTA algorithm. We use an optimum multilevel thresholding hybrid method of Genetic Algorithm (GA) ... -
A novel parallel texture feature extraction method using log-gabor filter and singular value decomposition (SVD)
(© 2017 ACM, 2017-01)Texture feature extraction consolidated with texture feature detection and feature matching solves many typical problems of image processing and computer vision; such as, texture classification, pattern recognition, object ... -
A novel substitute for the meter readers in a resource constrained electricity utility
(© 2010-2012 IEEE., 2013)A novel scheme has been proposed where the consumers will use their mobile phone cameras to take the photograph of respective meter's display panel along with the kWh (kilo-watt hour) information once a month and send it ... -
Numerical study on graphene nanoribbon quantum well-in-well interband and intersubband photodetector
(© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)The optical properties of well in well structure formed by armchair graphene nanoribbons (A-GNRs) are studied. A-GNR sheet is modeled by 3rd nearest tight-binding parameter. The optical properties are studied by employing ... -
Nutrition of children and women in Bangladesh: trends and directions for the future
(© 2012 Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012)Although child and maternal malnutrition has been reduced in Bangladesh, the prevalence of underweight (weight-for-age z-score <-2) among children aged less than five years is still high (41%). Nearly one-third of women ... -
Nutritional status and its association with quality of life among people living with HIV attending public anti-retroviral therapy sites of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
(© 2015 BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: Little evidence exists on the connections between nutrition, diet intake, and quality of life (QoL) among people living with HIV (PLHIV). The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of under-nutrition among PLHIV ...