Volume 20

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1 Water-Boryls Radical System as a Source of Hydrogen Atom
Waled Tantawy and Nahed Fathy		 1
2 Antioxidant Properties of Some Malaysian Ferns
How-Yee Lai and Yau-Yan Lim		 8
3 Statistical Modeling and Optimization of Amination Conditions of Activated Carbon for Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Using Response Surface Methodology
Mohammad Saleh Shafeeyan, Wan Mohd Ashri Wan Daud, Amirhossein Houshmand and Arash Arami-Niya		 13
4 Temperature Control of Industrial Gas Phase Propylene Polymerization in Fluidized Bed Reactors Using Model Predictive Control
Ahmad Shamiri, M. A. Hussain, Farouq Sabri Mjalli and Arash Arami-Niya		 19
5 Synthesis and Characterization of Activated Carbon from Saudi Arabian Dates Tree’s Fronds Wastes
Hassan M. Al-Swaidan and Ashfaq Ahmad		 25
6 Strategy for Obtaining Inexpensive Prodigiosin Production by Serratia Marcescen
Fang Xu, Shunxiang Xia and Qiyin Yang		 32
7 Characterization biodegradation of Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes by the Newly Isolated Bacterium Pseudomonas putida AY- 10 in Rhizosphere of Wastewater Treatment Reed
Eun Young Lee, Sun Hwa Hong, Min Hwan Oh and Joung Soo Lim		 37
8 Magnetic and 2D Electrical Imaging Methods to Investigate an Archaeological Site at Sungai Batu, Kedah, Malaysia
S. Y. Moussavi Alashloo, R. Saad, M. N. M. Nawawi, M. Saidin and M. M. Alashloo		 42
9 Survey the Health of Coral Reefs Communities among the Chabahar Island, Iran
Akram Tehranifard, Mina Farhadi and Tymour Aminirad		 49
10 Hydroxypropylation of Saba Banana Starch
Jau-Shya, Lee and Pamela Chui-Shin, Loh		 56
11 Tolerance of Five Sorghum Cultivars to Different Concentrations of Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) Leaf Aqueous Extracts
Shahram Shahrokhi, Ayda Bagheri and Soleiman Jamshidi		 61
12 Chemically Modified Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) with Oxygen and Sulfur ContainingFunctional Groups for Adsorption of Mercury
Nuruzatulifah Bt Asari@Mansor, Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, M. G. Kutty, Robert Schlögl and S. B. Abd Hamid.		 66
13 Assessment of Liquid Scintillation Technique for Measurement of Gross Alpha and Gross Beta in Aqueous Environmental Samples
Zaini Hamzah, Masitah Alias, Abdul Kadir Ishak and Ahmad Saat		 71
14 Anthropogenic Heavy Metals, U-238 and Th-232 Profiles in Sediments from an Abandoned Tin Mining Lake in Malaysia
Zaini Hamzah, Ahmad Saat, Zaharidah Abu Bakar and Abdul Khalik Wood		 75
15 Allelopathic Effect of Aqueous Extracts of Pigweed, Amaranthus retroflexus L. Organs on Germination and Growth of Five Barley Cultivars
Shahram Shahrokhi, Seyede Nahideh Hejazi, H. Khodabandeh, M. Farboodi and A. Faramarzi		 80
16 Wastewater Effluent Discharge: Effects and Treatment Processes
Akpor O. B.		 85
17 Dynamic Flux Balance Modeling of Fed-Batch Co-Culture Fermentation of Glucose/Xylose Mixture for Improved Bioethanol
Lisha K. P. and Debasis Sarkar		 92
18 Bottom Sediment Characteristics Affecting the Success of Seagrass (Enhalus acoroides) Transplantation in the Westcoast of South Sulawesi (Indonesia)
Mahatma Lanuru		 97
19 Economical Benefit Resulting From Waste Minimization in Hospitals (Case Study: Shahid Akbar Abadi Hospital)
Samin Hojati, Seyed Mostafa Khezri, Zeynab Erfani and Lila Asad Amraji		 103
20 Effect of Mixing Efficiency in Dilution Water Consumption in a Crude Oil Desalting Plant
Neda Neisi and Salem Banooni		 109
21 Characterization of Biosurfactant from a Diesel-oil Degradation Bacterium and Application Potential in Beauty Care Products
Ta-Chen Lin, Chun-Yeh Chen, Tzu-Ching Wang and Yuh-Shuen Chen		 114