Juniper Publishers Annals of Reviews and Research

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Annals of Reviews & Research  Important Mycotoxins, Iran Status- Juniper Publishers  Authored by Rouhollah Karami Osboo Abstract A review of reports on mycotoxins demonstrates that aflatoxins, fumonisins, and deoxynivalenol are the most important while zearalenone and ochratoxin also were found frequently in Iran. Natural mycotoxin contaminations of the most important plant grains and commodities have been reported during the recent decade. In 2013 more than 90% of wheat samples collected at harvest time in Ardabil province was contaminated to deoxynivalenol, with the average amount of 1.7μgg -1 . Wheat, barley, maize, and rice were tested for zearalenone contamination but generally, contaminations were below than 200μgkg -1 . Fumonisin contamination was reported in many research and maize is one of the most contaminated cereals to fumonisin, in some maize samples 10μgg -1 of this carcinogenic compound was detected. ...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Annals of Reviews & Research Urban Disaster Risk Assessment in Newly located Tannery based Industrial Areas in Bangladesh- Juniper Publishers  Authored by ABM Nurullah Abstract Tannery industry is the mentionable second largest revenue sector in Bangladesh. The main purpose of the study is to assess the health and environmental risk generated from the production activities of the tannery industry. A newly formed leather industry city in the Hemayetpur area of Bangladesh have been selected for this study. We have followed the process of risk assessment along with key informant interview (KII) and focused group discussion (FGD) among workers and administrative officials. The study retains that the workers are in the higher level of health risk and the industries are producing an unbearable environmental hazard in the area. The study suggests that a strong initiative should be taken by the government authority to monitor th...

Juniper Publishers- Open Access Journal of Annals of Reviews & Research Performance Evaluation of Feature Extraction and Modeling Methods for Speaker Recognition- Juniper Publishers  Authored by Mustafa Yankayiş   Abstract In this study, the performance of the prominent feature extraction and modeling methods in speaker recognition systems are evaluated on the specifically created database. The main feature of the database is that subjects are siblings or relatives. After giving the basic information about speaker recognition systems, outstanding properties of the methods are briefly mentioned. While Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficients (LPCC) and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) methods are preferred for feature extraction, Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and I-Vector methods are employed for modeling. The best results are tried to be obtained by changing the parameters of these methods. A number of features for LPCC and MFCC and number of mixture ...