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ults showed dynamic adaptive mechanisms of the Nellore sheep in relation to different stressors like grazing for long distances, inadequate nutrition, and heat stress, revealing the heat resilient ability in harsh environmental conditions. Further, the analyzed vector plot showed that the AST, GPx, Cortisol, SOD, Catalase, WBC, PR, T4, total abnormalities, and major abnormalities were the major contributors for adapting during combined stressors.The use of wastewater as a nutrient source for microalgae cultivation is considered as a cost-effective approach for algal biomass and biofuel production. The microalgal biomass contains carbohydrates that can be processed into bioethanol through different extraction methods. The objective of this study is to optimize the microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) of carbohydrates from the indigenous Scenedesmus sp. grown on brewery effluent. Optimization of independent variables, such as acid concentration (0.1-5 N), microwave power (800-1200 W), temperature (80-180 °C) and extraction time (5-30 min) performed by response surface methodology. It was found that all independent variables had a significant and positive effect on microwave-assisted carbohydrate extraction. The quadratic model developed on the basis of carbohydrate yield had F value of 112.05 with P less then 0.05, indicating that the model was significant to predict the carbohydrate yield. The model had a high value of R2 (0.9899) and adjusted R2 (0.9811), indicating that the fitted model displayed a good agreement between the predicted and actual carbohydrate yield. An optimum carbohydrate yield obtained was 260.54 mg g-1 under the optimum conditions of acid concentration (2.8 N), microwave power (1075 W), temperature (151 °C) and extraction time (22 min). The validation test showed that the model has adequately described the microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) of carbohydrates from microalgal biomass. This study demonstrated that the indigenous Scenedesmus sp. grown on brewery effluent provides a promising result in carbohydrate production for bioethanol feedstock.A phosphate glass Na2O-Nb2O5-P2O5 (NPP) is incorporated into NaNbO3 (NN) ceramics to examine its impact on the density, rearrangement of structural units, dielectric and energy storage features of the elaborated composites. The sodium niobate ceramic (NN) is prepared using the solid state process, whereas, the Na2O-Nb2O5-P2O5 (NPP) glasses are produced using the method of conventional melt quenching. The glass (NPP) is added to the ceramic (NN) according to the composition (100-x) NN-xNNP; (x = 0, 2.5, 5, and 7.5 %wt). The developed composites are denoted as NN-Gx where x represents the content of glass in %wt. The appropriate sintering temperature for the glass-ceramic composites was measured based on the density measurements. It was found that with the addition of glass, their density was decreased and their fritting at lower temperatures was enhanced. The obtained SST for all composites is about 900 °C. After the densification stage, Raman spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction, Granulo-laser analysis, and scanning electron microscopy are examined to study the structural approach and the morphology of sintered NN-Gx composites. The NN-G5 composite was found to have a fine grain microstructure that was uniform. The dielectric features of the composite revealed that at ambient temperature the NN-G5 had the greatest dielectric constant. The energy storage performance of the composite was investigated from the P-E plots and the parameters of energy storage. Based on the obtained results, it was concluded that incorporating up to 5% wt. of NNP glass in sodium niobate ceramics positively affects their dielectric and energy storage performances.The present pilot study had the objective to determine the effects of transcutaneous and transmucosal laser irradiation on arterial blood pressure (ABP), glucose (Glu) triglycerides (Tg), total cholesterol (Ch), high-density level cholesterol (HDL) and low-density cholesterol (LDL) immediately after treatment (T0) and after 30 (T30) and 60 (T60) days. Patients (n = 36) were selected and randomly distributed into 6 groups (n = 6/group; [G1] negative control, [G2] radial artery transcutaneous laser irradiation [G3] radial artery transcutaneous irradiation, [G4] transmucosal sublingual irradiation, [G5] transmucosal intra-nasal irradiation and [G6] extended radial artery transcutaneous irradiation). Blood exams were performed at T0, T30 and T60. Systolic and diastolic pressure results have indicated that patients' pressures ranged from 90 mmHg (P22, T30, G4) to 189 mmHg (P16, T0, G3) and 54 mmHg (P21, T60, G4) to 175 mmHg (P16, T30, G3). Levels of Glu at T30 and T60 varied from 5.53% (G1) to -5.78% (G6) and 1.21 (G2) to -8.69 (G6), respectively. Data was statistically assessed for normality and homogeneity of variances using the F-statistic and Bartlett's tests. Significant differences were determined using One-Way ANOVA and Fischer post hoc tests. Results indicated that treatments investigated can be safely used as an adjunct method to regulate blood pressure, glucose, triglycerides and cholesterol.This study explores the main factors of economic growth in a panel of the world's 20 biggest economies considering the data period of 39 years (1980-2018). In particular, the roles of international trade, energy use, human capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI) are examined in addition to the roles of capital and labour. To estimate the results the panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method of Pool Mean Group (PMG) estimator and heterogeneous panel causality test are used with due consideration of cross sectional dependence test, cointegration test and other necessary diagnostic tests. The obtained results ratify the cointegration among the variables used. Energy use, trade, capital, labour, human capital development and foreign direct investment have positive and significant impacts on the economic growth of these countries in the long run. In the short run energy use, trade and capital also have positive and significant effects, but human capital has negative effect on economic growth. A bidirectional causal relationship between economic growth and trade, capital, labour and human capital, and a unidirectional causal link from economic growth to energy use and foreign direct investment are also found. The obtained results are theoretically consistent, and therefore have important policy implications.Marble vine (Dioclea reflexa) seeds were roasted using the conditions in runs generated from Response Surface Methodology with temperature ranging from 110 to 200 °C and time (10-40 min). Proximate composition, antioxidant activities (DPPH, ABTS, FRAP, metal chelation OH and Lipid peroxidation) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) were carried out on unroasted and roasted flours. Roasting increased the crude fibre content (2.74-5.08 %) of black variety compared to others. However, a slight denaturation of protein was observed when compared to unroasted samples. A significant increase in all the antioxidant activities compared to the control was also observed compared to unroasted flours. The FTIR showed functional groups such as ketones, aldehydes and carbonyl group upon roasting. Roasting temperature at (110 °C) had more effect than roasting time (10, 25 and 40 min). Hence, roasting at 110 °C could enable the release of food nutrients and improve the functionality of marble vine seed flour.This paper explains the effects of bus numbering using a load-flow study to investigate the Nigerian 330 kV radial transmission networks. The objectives of this research include the Newton-Raphson-based load-flow analysis and verification of power losses. The simulation of the load-flow analysis is carried out using the software of Power World Simulator and MATLAB, while verification of power losses is simulated with only MATLAB software. The Nigerian 330-kV transmission lines used in this study are radial and are overloaded; thus, it has been subjected to numerous studies covering many areas as to how improvements can be made. All these studies aimed at increasing the efficiency of the network and reduce real and reactive power losses. click here In this study, analysis is carried out on the failure to convergence; the result of load-flow as obtained for the 28-bus power system of the Nigerian 330-kV network using two different bus identification numbering sequence types. The results of the Newton-Raphson load-flow solution in Power World Simulator and MATLAB platform obtained for each of the two bus identification types revealed the convergence failure in one identification model numbering type. This result's inconsistency further necessitated the study of load-flow analysis on the Nigerian 330-kV network for other different bus identification numbering types as reviewed from past work for case studies. The same bus data and transmission line data obtained from PHCN are used for all the bus numbering model types generated in the study. The results revealed variations in the real and reactive power losses and the number of iterations in solving each case. Besides, the study discovered that the failure in convergence comes from the power solution method's failure (software) used, hence, a code-based platform should be used for verification.Electroplating sludge consists of various heavy metal oxides, which may be utilized as adsorbent to remove Cu (II) present in aqueous environment. This study evaluated the adsorption performance of calcinated electroplating sludge. link2 The adsorption isotherm based on Langmuir equation proved that calcinated electroplating sludge had a higher adsorption performance than raw electroplating sludge, with maximum adsorption capacity 92 mg/g and 76.34 mg/g, respectively. Findings of the conducted kinetic study revealed that both surface adsorption and intra-particular diffusion were involved during the adsorption process. link3 Moreover, the comparison between the experimental and calculated data of equilibrium adsorption capacity demonstrated that the pseudo second-order kinetic equation fitted well with 38.31 mg/g of calcinated sludge and 33.66 mg/g of raw sludge, approximate to real-world data. Furthermore, adsorption mechanism research demonstrated that while OH group plays a vital role in raw sample, Ca2+, in addition to OH group, was involved in ion exchange in calcinated sample.The research presented in this paper re-examines the relationship between energy consumption and income for a panel of Asian economies for the period 1971-2018. The Asian economies represent a dynamic, diverse, and interesting set of countries on which to base an examination of these relationships and the tendencies for these economies to be on a path of convergence and integration in their energy consumption and use characteristics. Our convergence analysis provides evidence of convergence in energy intensity among the countries. Panel data methodologies are employed to gain the advantage of increased explanatory power of the econometric analysis. Importantly, we incorporate common factors as a means of accounting for variables beyond the bivariate relationship. The results find support for the flow of causality running from income to energy consumption, albeit with short-run feedback. As a result, current policies aimed at reducing energy intensity and CO2 emissions are not expected to significantly inhibit economic growth.