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Seismic techniques, which are known as nondestructive geophysical methods, are commonly used by engineers working in various fields such as mining, civil, and geotechnical engineering. They are frequently employed to investigate certain properties of rocks. Ultrasonic measurements can be applied in various application areas such as rockbolt reinforcement1, blasting efficiencies in the rock mass...

INTRODUCTION Rock climbing is becoming both accessible and popular amongst a broader population base [1]. This increasing participation has been matched by an increasing injury rate, particularly injuries to the distal upper extremity [2]. The most common climbing injuries occur in the finger flexor tendon pulleys, which can be overloaded to failure by acute excessive force in compromised finge...

We prove that the set of DES permutations (encryption and decryption for each DES key) is not closed under functional composition. This implies that, in general, multiple DES-encryption is not equivalent to single DES-encryption, and that DES is not susceptible to a particular known-plaintext attack which requires, on average, 228 steps. We also show that the size of the subgroup generated by t...

As noted below, most researchers agree that young babies should sleep in the same room where their parents sleep. The point of disagreement is whether parents should be advised against sharing their beds. Some researchers think that the safest arrangement involves cosleeping without sharing the same bed—-i.e., placing a young infant in a crib or “side car” that is within arm’s reach of his parent.

Cribbage is (normally) a two-player card game where the aim is to score 121 points before your opponent. The game has four stages, one of which involves discarding two cards from the six cards you are dealt. A later stage scores the four cards in your hand together with a card cut randomly from the deck after the discards have been made. The two cards that were discarded are used to form anothe...

We recently identified a novel human protein kinase, p160 ROCK, as a putative downstream target of the small GTPase Rho. Using the human ROCK cDNA as a probe, we isolated cDNA of two distinct, highly related sequences from mouse libraries. One encoded a mouse counterpart of human ROCK (ROCK-I), and the other encoded a novel ROCK-related kinase (ROCK-II). Like ROCK/ROCK-I, ROCK-II also bound to ...

The most recent results and some of the open key questions on the evolution of early-type galaxies are reviewed in the general cosmological context of massive galaxy formation.

the kazhdumi formation of the bangestan group is a well-known and important source rock in most oil-fields in the zagros basin. in order to examine productivity of this formation in southwestern iran, and to correlate petrographical and palynological data with geochemical properties, one of the best outcrops of this formation, located in tange-maghar 45 km northwest of behbahan city, was sample...

The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, simvastatin, has been shown to attenuate chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (CHPH). Here, we assess whether simvastatin is capable of inducing regression of established CHPH and explore potential mechanisms of statin effect. Rats (n = 8 in each group) were exposed to chronic hypoxia (10% Fi(O(2))) for 2 or 4 wk. Simvastatin t...