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Sulfur has atomic number 16 and is represented with symbol “S”. Elemental sulphur is available as a crystalline bright yellow solid at room temperature. As sulfur is 0.0384% of the Earth’s crust, it is said to be the seventeenth abundant element. It has the ability to react either as a reducing agent or as an oxidant. Sulfur has the property to oxidize several nonmetals and metals that include carbon and leads to negative charge in large amount of the organosulfur compounds. It also reduces strong oxidants such as fluorine and oxygen. Sulfur is available in its pure elemental form and as sulfate and sulfide minerals. It is an essential element and is used on a large scale in the biochemical processes. Sulfur compounds, in metabolic reactions, serve as respiratory material (electron acceptors), oxygen alternative as well as fuels (electron donors).

Rubella or German measles is a contagious and acute viral infection caused by the rubella virus. Generally, rubella infection occurs most often in young adults and children. While the rubella infection is typically mild in children, this disease has serious consequences in pregnant women causing congenital defects and fetal death.

In the last two decades, concern and awareness on the use of products derived from petroleum and their adverse impact on the environment have created an opportunity to produce environmental friendly lubricants. The advantages of environmentally acceptable products include minimal health and safety risks and less pollution. Lubricants affect the environment at all stages of production, use, and disposal and should be non-toxic to humans through contact and inhalation during production and use. Accidental losses that arise during spill can cause ecological disaster to environmentally sensitive areas such as forestry, waterways, construction, harbors, agriculture and mining. Thus, for these reasons and in response to public awareness, norms that stipulate the use of environment friendly lubricating fluids are desirable. Hence, it has created an opportunity to produce environmentally acceptable lubricants that are produced from natural esters such as vegetable oils.

Resorcinol is a six carbon phenol derived hydrocarbon compound. The chemical is white in color with a crystal structure. It is soluble in water, alcohol, ether and benzene. It has a very mild odor and a bitter sweet taste. It is also known as m-benzenediol, m-hydroxyquinone, and resorcin. Resorcinol can be manufactured commercially through two processes. One of the commercial processes involves sulphonation of benzene followed by neutralization of disulphonic acid, caustic fusion and separation. This process yields technical grade resorcinol with higher than 98% purity.

The global demand for oil and gas increases with the increase in world population especially with the enhanced demand for electricity, automobiles, improved housing and other energy consumption methods in the developing nations. According to the International Energy Association (IEA), the natural gas will have a golden future especially for coalbed methane (CBM) and shale gas and will also require golden standards for production. Further, the wastewater from fracking operations will require treatment for beneficial use which further accelerates the global fracking water treatment equipment market. Moreover, the increased importance of water and drought conditions are generating need to develop equipments to recycle wastewater and expediting the growth of global fracking water treatment equipment market.

Intellectual properties including rights such as copyrights, designs, trademarks and patents and are considered one of the most important resources in this century. Earlier, intellectual property rights were mostly observed in the technical markets and industries such as semiconductors but with the time it is becoming important factor in across the business and legal world. Various public policies are playing a vital role in development of intellectual property market along with their impact on innovations. Ideas play an important role in today’s world and circulation of these ideas in this networked world in is highly important for innovations in businesses. Authors, designers and inventors are not always able to exploit their knowledge. Thus, organizations are progressively adopting trend for open innovations practices. But huge cost associated with open innovation practices often hinder the successful negotiation of copyrights, licenses and designs.

Perimeter security encompasses physical security of the facility as well as programmatic security policies which enforce protection against any malicious activity. Factors such as illegal immigration, constant risk of terrorism, anti-government protests and increasing criminal activities have led to the need for advance perimeter security solutions. Perimeter security solutions deploy technologies such as intrusion detection systems, access control systems, video surveillance systems, and alarms/communication and notification systems to meet the demands of security. In order to provide an integrated security solution, such security systems deploy various sensors such as radar, infrared, microwave, fiber-optic and seismic sensors along with its video surveillance and communication systems. Thereby, perimeter security systems and solutions ensure physical and logical integrity of sensitive government and commercial sites. Such security solutions have become a necessity at government and defense sites, critical infrastructural sites such as oil and gas facilities, chemical industries and nuclear power and research plants. Other government verticals such as parliament, public transportation as well as commercial buildings including banks and information technology infrastructure facilities need to deploy robust perimeter security solutions.

The global Aerospace & Defense industry has experienced rapid transformation in the last few months. Following a steep decline in the orders and backlogs in the year 2008 and 2009, aircraft manufacturing companies are witnessing phenomenal growth in the near future. This strong recovery is majorly driven by the commercial aviation segment as global passenger traffic is rising rapidly by 10% - 12% every year. Also contributing to the aviation industry’s growth are the overall improvement of the global economy, the entry of low-cost carriers and rising demand of aircrafts from developing economies especially India and China.

Thyroid gland is located in the lower part of neck and produces and stores hormones that help to regulate blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Thyroid hormones are also regulating the essential functions of body cells and maintain functions like metabolism i.e. rate of chemical reaction in the body. Triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4) and calcitonic are important types of thyroid hormones. Pituitary gland produce thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) that stimulates the thyroid gland to produce these hormones. The disorder of thyroid gland functions involves abnormal production of thyroid hormones and hence results in condition like hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Hyperthyroidism initiates the excessive production of thyroid hormone. This condition occurs due to variety of disease conditions like graves' disease, toxic adenomas and subacute thyroiditis. In contrast, hypothyroidism is defined as the underproduction of thyroid hormones. Conditions like hashimoto's thyroiditis and exposure to excessive amounts of iodide responsible for hypothyroidism. Blood tests, radioactive iodine uptake tests, thyroid scan thyroid fine needle biopsy and thyroid ultrasound are useful for the diagnosis of thyroid gland disorders. In addition, anti-thyroid medicines, radioiodine, beta-blockers are advised by physicians for the effective treatment of these disorders.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that 17.3 million people died from cardiovascular diseases in 2008. They also predicted that more than 23.3 million people will die of the same reason each year up till 2030. Coronary artery diseases form the basis of the largest amount of cardiovascular disease-induced deaths. Two of the strongest agents being used to combat this issue are PCIs and a range of coronary stents.