Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been recently identified as a novel member of beta coronaviruses (CoVs) and the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).It has been first discovered in China and soon has spread across ngetikin continents with an escalating number of mortalities.There is an urgent need for d
Evaluating the anti-plaque efficacy of meswak (Salvadora persica) containing dentifrice: A triple blind controlled trial
Introduction: The growing field of alternative medicine has shown that dentifrices based on plant extracts are available in the market but there is little or no research to prove or refute the efficacy of dentifrices containing combination of herbal components.Aim: The study was conducted to evaluate the anti-plaque efficacy of a commercially avail
Role of transfer functions in PSO to select diagnostic attributes for chronic disease prediction: An experimental study
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a classic and popularly used meta-heuristic algorithm in many real-life optimization problems due to its less computational complexity and simplicity.The binary version of PSO, known as BPSO, is used to solve binary optimization problems, such as feature selection.Like other meta-heuristic optimization technique
CYP4BN4v7 regulates the population density dependent oocyte maturity rate in bean beetles
Abstract The click here bean beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus) clearly exhibits population density-dependent polymorphism.Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is involved in many aspects of the physiological activities of insects.However, the role of CYP in population density-dependent polymorphisms remains unknown.The terminal oocyte maturity rate of high-popula
Peer-review and its role in the scholarly communication system: specialized journals as an example
A scientific study on peer-review in specialized scientific journals.The study begins with a comprehensive introduction to the concept of scientific communication, then it deals with specialized periodicals aluminum lotion in terms of their nature and importance in scientific communication and scientific editing.Then the study discusses scientific