Functional and Environmental Advantage of Cleaning Ti5B1 Master Alloy

Aleksandar Mitrašinović,Miloš Tomić 한국정밀공학회 2022 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Vol.9 No.3

One of the greatest environmental goals for the aluminum alloys industry is generating higher quality products by introducing cleaner input materials while maintaining low production costs. A typical dilemma for the master alloy producers is the cleanness level of the master alloy since insoluble inclusions could serve as inoculants during the solidification process. In this work, commercial Ti5B1 master alloy is used for grain refinement of Al7Si4Cu aluminum alloy and compared with the cleaned master alloy that contained a lower amount of residual refractory oxides and salts. Metallography analysis was used for grain size measurement while Computer Aided Cooling Curve Analysis was used for assessment of the undercooling and heat release values. In all instances, specimens treated with the cleaned master alloy showed smaller grains in the final structure and lower undercooling values. The difference in released heat between liquidus and recalescence temperatures was about 25% in specimens where added 0.66 wt% of cleaned master alloys compared to specimens where the commercial master alloys were added. Using cleaner Ti5B1 master alloy with a higher number of TiAl 3 and TiB 2 particles improves its grain refi nementefficiency and transmits fewer impurities in produced parts. Producing cleaner master alloy would be beneficial from economic and environmental aspects by increasing its value and service time of produced parts besides simplifying the recycling process at the end of parts life-cycle.

Diversity of medicinal plant traditionally used by Baiga tribes in District Umaria, Madhya Pradesh, India

Mitra Arman 경희대학교 융합한의과학연구소 2022 Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine Vol.22 No.4

The conventional source of medicinal plants is an important way for daily curative uses in rural area throughout Madhya Pradesh. Folk medicinal specialists or traditional healer (Medicine men), assume an indispensable part in a medicinal services arrangement of both provincial and urban populace of the nation. It is vital to conduct broad meetings of individual medicine men of an area to get the overall status of medicinal plants. A survey was accomplished in the rustic territory of district Umaria, Madhya Pradesh. This investigation has uncovered a sum of 40 plants out of which 33 plants were identified, which belongs to 22 families. Whole plants and/or plant parts, like leaves, stems, barks, roots, flowers, fruits, seeds and wood were usually used by Biga tribe (Medicine men) for the treatment of different illnesses. Leaves (5%) were the most oftentimes used plant parts, trailed by roots (11%), fruits (3%) barks (5%), whole plants (3%), seeds (2%), latex (2%) and flowers (2%). Add up to 33 diverse individual illnesses professed to be restored by plant parts including Breast abscess, Cure carbuncle, Cure rheumatic, Cure scabies, Diabetes, Diarrhoea, Eczema, Haematuria, Headache, Jaundice, Leucorrhoea, Leukoderma, Menstrual disorder, Piles, Rat bites, Scorpion bite, Skin burns, Skin disease, Spermatorrhea, Stomachache, Toothache, Typhoid and fever, used to abortifacient, increase milk after delivery, Whooping cough and Wounds of animals. Several uses of the plants could be validated by available literature review. It is expected that other plants used for treatment of various diseases by the Biga tribes (medicine men) can be subjected for further bio-activity and phytochemical studies, which prompts disclosure of new medications.

Types and Major Causes of Conflict Experienced by Iranian Nurses

Mitra Payami Bousari,Fazlolah Ahmadi,Nahid Bousari Kennedy 한국간호과학회 2009 한국간호과학회 학술대회 Vol.2009 No.10

Study of federated learning in industrial IoT

Mitra Pooyandeh,Insoo Sohn 한국통신학회 2021 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2021 No.11

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is actually a subset of IoT. Therefore, the growing development of IoT technology in recent years and its application in the industry have improved the performance of various industries. Certainly, the extensive usage of IoT in industrial is led to producing a huge amount of data that require a server for processing. while sending this amount of data causes several issues such as data centralization and privacy-preserving. Federated learning (FL) is an exhaustive solution to overcome these problems. Given that federated learning technology implemented in IIoT keep the data on the device as result, it helps the data security and optimizes the communication cost. In this article, we present a study of FL in IIoT.

Study of compounds, cytotoxicity and biological activities of essential oil of Satureja rechingeri Jamzad

Mitra Arman,Kiana Pirian,Mostafa Alinaghizadeh,Fatemeh Khosheghbal,Reza Nahavandi,Saeid Tamadoni Jahromi 경희대학교 융합한의과학연구소 2022 Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine Vol.22 No.4

Nowadays, the essential oil has received a special position for the treatment of diseases. Although Satureja rechingeri Jamzad is an endemic species of Iran, unfortunately few studies have been conducted on its biological properties. In this study, along with the analysis of the compounds of Satureja rechingeri essential oil, cytotoxic, antioxidant and antibacterial properties of the essential oil of this species were investigated. The compounds of prepared essential oil were analyzed by GC-FID and GC–MS using Clevenger. Disc diffusion and MTT methods were used to determine the antibacterial activity and cytotoxicity of the essential oil, respectively. The antioxidant activity of the essential oil was measured by two methods of reducing power assay and DPPH free radical scavenging. p-Cymene (46.5%) was the most identified compound in the essential oil. The essential oil showed higher inhibitory effect on seven bacterial strains relative to the standard antibiotics. The studied essential oil showed significant concentration-dependent inhibitory effect on four cancer cells of Vero, SW480, MCF7 and JET3 with 50% lethal effect of 15.6, 125, 15.6 and 250 μg/mL for each line, respectively. The highest adsorption (2.6 nM) was at 500 μg/mL for reducing power assay and 50% free radical inhibition at a concentration of 375 μg/mL for DPPH antioxidant assay. In general, the essential oil of Satureja rechingeri with high antioxidant, antibacterial and anticancer activity can be used as a cheap and affordable natural product in clinical and pharmaceutical fields.

Forecasting the Diffusion of Innovative Products Using the Bass Model at the Takeoff Stage: A Review of Literature from Subsistence Markets

Mitra, Suddhachit Asian Society for Innovation and Policy 2019 Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy Vol.8 No.1

A considerable amount of research has been directed at subsistence markets in the recent past with the belief that these markets can be tapped profitably by marketers. Consequently, such markets have seen the launch of a number of innovative products. However, marketers of such forecasts need timely and accurate forecasts regarding the diffusion of their products. The Bass model has been widely used in marketing management to forecast diffusion of innovative products. Given the idiosyncrasies of subsistence markets, such forecasting requires an understanding of effective estimation techniques of the Bass model and their use in subsistence markets. This article reviews the literature to achieve this objective and find out gaps in research. A finding is that there is a lack of timely estimates of Bass model parameters for marketers to act on. Consequently, this article sets a research agenda that calls for timely forecasts at the takeoff stage using appropriate estimation techniques for the Bass model in the context of subsistence markets.

Improved DCT-Based Image Coding and Decoding Methods For Low-Bit Rate Applications

Mitra, Sanjit K.,Jung,sung-Hwan 國立昌原大學校 基礎科學硏究所 1994 基礎科學硏究所論文集 Vol.6 No.-

The discrete cosine transform(DCT) is well known for highly efficient coding performance, and it is widely used in many image compression applications. However, in low-bit rate coding, it produces undesirable block artifacts that are visually not pleasing. In addition, in many applications, faster computation and easier VLSI implementation of DCT coefficients are also important issues. The removal of the block artifacts and faster DCT computation are therefore of practical interest. In this paper, we outline a modified DCT computation scheme that provides a simple efficient solution to the reduction of the block artifacts while achieving faster computation. We also derive a similar solution for the efficient computation of the inverse DCT. We have applied the new approach for the low-bit rate coding and decoding of images. Intial simulation results on real images have verified the improved performance obtained using the proposed method over the standard JPEG method.

Evaluation of Mechanical and Rheological Properties of Metronidazole Gel as Local Delivery System

Mitra Jelvehgari,Hassan Montazam 대한약학회 2011 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.34 No.6

Rosacea is a chronic multifactorial vascular skin disorder that affects about 10 percent of the general population. Metronidazole is an effective antibiotic in the treatment of moderate-tosevere rosacea. Metronidazole is a suitable drug in cases of resistance to tetracycline or erythromycin, but it has also been shown that oral metronidazole may increase the side effects (e.g.,peripheral neuropathy). Oral metronidazole should not be used for more than three months, and hence topical metronidazole gel is the best therapeutic choice in rosacea (especially during pregnancy). This study examined the mechanical (adhesiveness, cohesiveness, extrudability, spreadability, homogeneity) and rheological (viscosity), skin irritant and drug release properties of different metronidazole gel formulations that contain anionic emulsifying wax, glycerin and lactic acid in different proportions. The release studies were conducted using Franz diffusion cells and Silastic membrane as a barrier. The results indicated that gel compressibility, hardness, and adhesiveness, are the factors that influence the ease of gel removal from the container, ease of gel application onto the mucosal membrane, and gel bioadhesion. The findings showed that there exists a strong negative correlation between the spreadability of a formulation and its cohesiveness, the spreadability of a formulation is inversely proportional to its cohesiveness. However, sorbitol solution (70%) concentration was not significantly correlated with drug release. In addition, drug release was significantly reduced as the concentration of anionic emulsifying wax increased and the concentration of lactic acid decreased. The maximum metronidazole release was achieved at a pH of 4-6. Data obtained from in vitro release studies were fitted to various kinetic models and high correlation was obtained in the Higuchi and first order models. The results showed that all the gel formulations showed good extrudability, viscosity, cohesiveness, homogeneity and spreadability.

Dynamical Analysis of Yeast Protein Interaction Network During the Sake Brewing Process

Mitra Mirzarezaee,Babak N. Araabi,Mehdi Sadeghi 한국미생물학회 2011 The journal of microbiology Vol.49 No.6

Proteins interact with each other for performing essential functions of an organism. They change partners to get involved in various processes at different times or locations. Studying variations of protein interactions within a specific process would help better understand the dynamic features of the protein interactions and their functions. We studied the protein interaction network of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (yeast) during the brewing of Japanese sake. In this process, yeast cells are exposed to several stresses. Analysis of protein interaction networks of yeast during this process helps to understand how protein interactions of yeast change during the sake brewing process. We used gene expression profiles of yeast cells for this purpose. Results of our experiments revealed some characteristics and behaviors of yeast hubs and non-hubs and their dynamical changes during the brewing process. We found that just a small portion of the proteins (12.8 to 21.6%) is responsible for the functional changes of the proteins in the sake brewing process. The changes in the number of edges and hubs of the yeast protein interaction networks increase in the first stages of the process and it then decreases at the final stages.

Petrochemical wastewater treatment and reuse by MBR: A pilot study for ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol and olefin units

Mitra Bayat,Mohammad Reza Mehrnia,Mostafa Hosseinzadeh,Reza Sheikh-Sofla 한국공업화학회 2015 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.25 No.-

This study aims to investigate the technical feasibility of employing membrane bioreactor (MBR) as a practical approach for ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol (EO/EG) and olefin units wastewater treatment in a petrochemical complex. EO/EG unit wastewater mainly contains ethylene glycol and acetaldehyde and olefin unit wastewater includes benzene and ethyl benzene, with COD concentration of 1900 900 mg/L and 900 300 mg/L, respectively. Experimental studies of MBR pilot plants with volume of 2.5 m3 were carried out during 6 months in different HRTs and various mixed ratios of EO/EG to olefin unit wastewater. Results revealed that using MBR, COD removal efficiency of 97.5% is accomplished in HRT of 13.5 h for EO/EG and 85% in HRT of 18 h for olefin wastewater. For the mixed ratio of 2/1 and in HRT of 18 and 24 h, COD removal efficiency of 93.5% and 96% was achieved, respectively. Membrane fouling was analyzed at different MLSS concentrations. The results at optimum MLSS of 8 g/L revealed that fouling resistance is mainly due to the membrane pore blocking, and cake and gel resistances contribute less to membrane fouling. Results indicated that MBR is a promising technology for treatment of high fluctuation toxic components in petrochemical wastewater.