Author(s): Gustavo Levandoski, Luiz Alberto Pilatti, Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin ABSTRACT This paper describes a transversal study involving 296 undergraduate mechanical engineering students, using a descriptive probabilistic approach. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of life … Continue reading
Author(s): Alberto Falchetti, Elisa Rossi, Roberta Cosso, A. Buffa, Stefania Corvaglia, Nazzarena Malavolta ABSTRACT The vitamin D3 molecule, or cholecalciferol, is now considered a hormone that acts on multiple homeostatic fronts, either skeletal or extra-skeletal. After 100 years since from … Continue reading
Author(s): Harry Lahrmann, Bo Brassøe, Jonas Wibert Johansen, Jens Christian Overgaard Madsen ABSTRACT There is considerable safety potential in ensuring that motorists respect the speed limits. High speeds increase the number and severity of accidents. Technological development over the last … Continue reading
Author(s): Janan Faraj Falah ABSTRACT This study of six Druze widows in Israel deals with Druze law, women’s personal status, the widows’ difficulties, and the conflicts between Druze traditional society and modernity. The Druze society is a traditional, collective, patriarchal … Continue reading
Author(s): Edith N. Fombang, Romuald Willy Saa ABSTRACT Maintenance of glycemic control is important in preventing diabetes and its associated complications. Considering the current recommended approach for the use of functional foods and their bioactive components in the prevention and … Continue reading
Author(s): Jean-Paul Auffray ABSTRACT No, Isaac Newton did not “explain” gravitation. What he did, and this certainly constituted all and by itself a great achievement, was to recognize (to “assert”) the universal character of gravitation: all material objects (bodies) attract … Continue reading
Author(s): Johnson K. Mwove1, Lilian A. Gogo, Ben N. Chikamai, Mary N. Omwamba, Symon M. Mahungu ABSTRACT It was of interest to determine the water holding effect of the gum from the Acacia senegal var. kerensis in extended beef rounds. … Continue reading
Author(s): Shanzida Khatun, Hee Soon Kim, Hyun-Bong Park ABSTRACT Background: The childhood cancer is increasing throughout the world. The incidence of children and adolescent (1 – 19 years old) mortality by cancer was 4.49 by 2006 (Korea Statistics, 2014). Mothers … Continue reading
Author(s): Patricia Lupion Torres, Neusa Nogueira Fialho, Raquel Pasternak Glitz Kowalski, Alexandra Okada ABSTRACT This presented research has been developed in Curitiba, Brazil at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana—PUCPR and has organized exhibition by the research group Pedagogical Practice on … Continue reading
Author(s): K. Manikandan, S. Sathiyamoorthy ABSTRACT Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) determines the dielectric permittivity of the interior object depending on the measurements of exterior capacitance. Generally, the electrodes are placed outside the PVC cylinder where the medium to be imaged … Continue reading