Introduction: Nowadays, bedbug infestation is one of the public health problems around the world. The objective of this study was to evaluate the spatial distribution of bedbug in different parts of the infested houses. Moreover, the association between house sanitation and presence of bedbug infestation was determined in infested houses in Ahvaz City, Iran. Materials and Methods: Totally, 57 ...

The knowledge of the partition function, Z, of a system of particles adsorbed on a surface is all that is required to determine the occupational characteristics of the adsorbates and the thermodynamic properties of the system. The surface considered is a terrace or a nanotube of arbitrary periodic lattice geometry, L atomic sites in length, and M' sites in the width of the terrace or in the nor...

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He moved about 1900 to 76 Pakenham Place, where he lived for the rest of his life. This was a Victorian terrace in the Dublin Road, beside the Reformed Presbyterian church, but has now been replaced by a block of shops. Several doctors and dentists lived there in the years before University Square became the Mecca for doctors, and this practice of giving an address as a ‘terrace’ rather than as...

We report in situ atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy observations of the oxidation of stepped Cu surfaces. We find that the presence of surface steps both inhibits oxide film growth and leads to the oxide decomposition, thereby resulting in oscillatory oxide film growth. Using atomistic simulations, we show that the oscillatory oxide film growth is induced by oxygen adsorption o...

Effect of an anisotropic detachment on a heteroepitaxial island shape is studied by means of a kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of a square lattice gas model. Only with molecular deposition followed by surface diffusion, islands grow in a ramified dendritic shape, similar to DLA. Introduction of molecular detachment from edges makes islands compact. To understand an anisotropic island shape obser...

We study a minimal stochastic model of step bunching during growth on a one-dimensional vicinal surface. The formation of bunches is controlled by the preferential attachment of atoms to descending steps (inverse Ehrlich-Schwoebel effect) and the ratio d of the attachment rate to the terrace diffusion coefficient. For generic parameters (d>0) the model exhibits a very slow crossover to a nontri...