Models with bathtub-shaped failure rate function are useful in reliability analysis and particularly in reliability related decision making and cost analysis. A modified Weibull distribution (MWD) was recently proposed by Lai et al.(2003) as a generalization of the two-parameter Weibull distribution....

In this dissertation, we introduce a proposal for building an alternative group communication service that shifts the multicast support from core routers to end-systems....

The beginning of the new millennium is sure to bring about many drastic changes in the life of mankind. One of them is going to be the shift towards natural dyes and their efficient usage compared to their synthetic counterpart which has been slowly losing, mainly due to international awareness to environment and ecology preservation....

A fifteen different biphasic media were used to cultivated promastigote parasite of Leishmania donovani and compared with ordinary NNN medium, to find a cow milk agar medium can provide a good cultivation to the parasite as well as the ordinary medium, where milk is a simple, cheap and a good source of protein, carbohydrate, lipids and calcium....

The adrenal gland (Glandula suprarenalis) is one of the most important endocrine glands which critical for body health, not only, through controlling the metabolism (Glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids) but also regulation of the sex hormones.It also play an important role in nervous system through epinephrine and nor-epinephrine secretion....