Soil samples were used to isolate different protease producing bacteria. Casein hydrolysis media was used to screen proteolytic bacteria which produced clear hydrolyzed zone. Isolates showing positives result for all isolates. The media (MD8) indicated maximum protease production for Bacillus cohinii. Glucose showed maximum enzyme activity of 14.49 U/ml for BS1. In nitrogen source , ammonium chloride showed to be best with enzyme activity as 7.85 U/ml for BS1 in MD5 media. MD5 media supplemented with NaCl works best for alkaline protease production. But a concentration of 11% NaCl showed maximum activity with 10.87 U/ml for BS1. It was found that all the isolates showed maximum protease production at 45°C in MD5 media

Bacteria were isolated from soil samples using serial dilution method. Different isolates were then screened for their alkaline protease producing capability using skim milk hydrolysis test. The bacterial species were identified as Bacillus cohnii using 16S rRNA amplification and phylogenetic analysis. BLAST program and the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity demonstrated that the query sequence was 99% similar to Bacillus cohnii (gb|JF689927.1) strain APT5.

Dynamic loads of high capacity power grids under normal and severe conditions are the most concerns of system operators and dispatchers to maintain voltage stability. Reactive power (Q) are often drawn by loads from various generated sources disturbing the operational power factor. Compensating methods are used, depending on load types and their reactive power patterns, to continuously monitor and correctly counteract fast changes by extremely rapid VAR compensation especially during transient conditions. Using power electronics and combining both, power and control engineering, some FACTS devises equipped with selected power electronic switching are the appropriate methods to respond to system variations in almost no time. STATCOM regulates system voltages based on a voltage-source converters, by absorbing or generating reactive power. Contrary to a thyristor-based Static VAR

This study aims to investigate the disclosures of corporate social responsibility CSR in the annual reports of the sixty one Libyan companies for six sectors, namely industry, services, investment, banking, insurance and oil. Study periods are three years; 2009, 2010 and 2012. The disclosures of the corporate social responsibility include four themes, namely environment, community, consumers and employees. Content analysis methodology was employed in order to study the disclosures of corporate social responsibility. Disclosure index was used to measure the corporate social responsibility disclosures. The findings revealed although many companies disclosed their corporate social responsibility activities in their annual reports, but the levels of disclosures are still low. Results of the study also indicated that there are slight differences in the disclosures of the corporate social responsibility between different sectors of Libyan companies. It is expected that usefulness of this study will be acknowledged by stakeholders, potential and present investors, policy makers, and regulatory bodies in Libya or by any other developing country. 

The object of the present paper is to introduce a new subclass of p-valent starlike functions with negative coefficients in the open unit disc which is defiined by a generalized derivative operator. We obtain coefficient inequalities, growth and distortion theorems and extreme points for the subclass of p-valent functions.

Recent developments in both information and communication security have heightened interest in enhancing the embedding capacity for data handling techniques. Although many steganographic techniques, in the literature, have been developed for this purpose, most of them distort the quality of the host-signal during data embedding and the changes will be become visible to the human eye especially for those signals distributed via the Internet which must be processed by a low bit rate compression due to bandwidth limitations. Therefore, the challenge is to create a steganographic technique that is able to hide acceptable amount of data without altering the quality of the host-signal. In this paper, pixel-value differencing (PVD) steganographic scheme and its two modified versions, namely, enhanced pixel-value differencing (EPVD) and tri-way pixel-value differencing (TPVD) were implemented, analyzed and compared in terms of invisibility, fidelity and impact of data hiding on the compression efficiency. Experimental results indicate that the EPVD scheme is capable of providing better performance than other compared schemes.