Currently evaluations of the performance of various BW agent rapid detection or identification systems have primarily focused on defined aerosol samples released under favorable, controlled conditions or controlled samples assayed under laboratory conditions. Although these methods may provide information on the sensitivity, cross-reactivity, and some interferences, they may not provide suffici...

This research was designed to theoretically address and empirically examine research issues related to customer’s satisfaction with social commerce. To investigate these research issues, data were collected using a written survey as part of a free simulation experiment. In this experiment, 136 participants were asked to evaluate two social commerce websites using an instrument designed to measu...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisors Kent-Andre Mardal, André Massing, Øyvind Evju and Martin Sandve Alnaes, who have helped me both with this thesis and further aca-demical prospects. For that I am truly grateful. I would like to express my gratitude to Magne, Håkon and Tom Andreas for good discussions, Andreas for proofreading most parts of this thesis, and the people in Stud...

BACKGROUND The Barclay cigarette (Brown & Williamson) was introduced in 1980 in the USA in the most expensive launch in history. In the USA and around the world, Barclay was later determined to have a grooved filter design that was compromised by human smokers in the normal act of smoking, but that was measured as ultra-low tar using the standard tar testing protocol. OBJECTIVES To evaluate w...

The Interactive Microbiology website promotes the learning of microbiology by resolving theoretical and/or practical problems. The material was designed to be used in the classroom, as well as for independent learning. The most noteworthy innovation is the integration of the theoretical and practical aspects, thanks to the fact that in addition to theoretical contents the website also includes ...

The massive construction in poor lands has encouraged engineers to use deep foundations in order to transfer superstructure loads to the subsoil. Since soil excavation, sampling, and laboratory testing as a part of site investigation are relatively difficult, in-situ tests such as cone penetration test (CPT) as a very informative test may be recommended. The CPT has been widely used in engineer...

evaluation of range conditions and plant diversity circumstances can help to rangeland managers who establish their managerial approaches on the basis of ecological capabilities of rangeland ecosystems. hence, surveying of rangelands was done in four sites of northern alborz mt. including western alborz (masooleh site), west to middle alborz (javaherdeh site), central area (polour site), and ea...

introduction science of climatic design is defined as a set of theoretical principles and practical methods of management. the knowledge wants to provide a suitable living environment leading to healthy life based on sustainable development and the coherence relationship between the concepts of climatology, architecture and urban design. this attempts to provide aesthetic elements as the main c...

in this paper, the 10-minutes period measured wind speed data at different heights (10 m, 30 m, and 40 m) are presented for khvaf, which is one of the major counties with high wind potential in khorasan provinces in iran. to the author’s knowledge, there hasn’t been any assessment works in the mentioned site. from the primary evaluation and by determining mean wind speed and also the weibull fu...