The world is witnessing a dramatic shift of settlement pattern from rural to urban population, particularly in developing countries. The rapid Addis Ababa urbanization reflects this global phenomenon and the subsequent socio-economic and environmental impacts, are causing massive public uproar and political instability. The objective of this study was to use remotely sensed Landsat data to iden...

Effective control of phase growth under harsh conditions (such as high temperature, highly conductive liquids or high growth rate), where surfactants are unstable or ineffective, is still a long-standing challenge. Here we show a general approach for rapid control of diffusional growth through nanoparticle self-assembly on the fast-growing phase during cooling. After phase nucleation, the nanop...

We discuss a model for the early assembly of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of galaxies that trace their hierarchical build-up far up in the dark halo ‘merger tree’. Motivated by the observations of luminous quasars around redshift z ≈ 6 with SMBH masses ≈ 10M⊙, we assess the possibility of an early phase of stable super-critical quasi-spherical accretion in the BHs hosted by me...

The WFPC2 Filter F160BW, also known as WOOD’s filter, was designed to transmit UV emission around 150nm and strongly block all other wavelengths. The filter has a unique construction where a thin film of sodium metal serves as the spectral element. However, sodium is a highly unstable and reactive metal, which makes the filter susceptible to changes over time. Herein we report a rapidly growing...

Assuming perfect collision efficiency, we demonstrate that turbulence can initiate and sustain the rapid growth of very small water droplets in air even when these droplets are too small to cluster, and even without having to take gravity and small-scale intermittency into account. This is because the range of local Stokes numbers of identical droplets in the turbulent flow field is broad enoug...

Little research has focused on how factors influencing travel behavior change in rapidly developing and motorizing cities. We examine the case of household motor vehicle ownership, focusing on potential variations in preferences revealed through vehicle choice models estimated for Santiago de Chile in 1991 and 2001, and including measures of relative location, metro proximity, residential densi...

in this case report, we present the first diagnosed case of galloway- mowat syndrome in iran. a 7 month old infant boy with microcephaly that had prominently stunted head growth after birth, gastroesophageal reflux, multiple craniofascial characters, hypothyroidism and nephrotic syndrome diagnosed at 5 months of age associated with rapid decline in renal function and heavy proteinuria in 2 mont...

introduction lipid-based anesthetic agents such as propofol support rapid microbial growth at room temperature. many reports of systemic infections have been traced to the injection of contaminated propofol. the results of these studies are different according to the magnitude and the mechanisms of infections. the aim of this study was to evaluate the development of bacterial infection in syrin...

background and objective: early determination of antibacterial susceptibility increases the success of therapy, decreases unnecessary use of antibacterial agents and side-effects, and lowers the overall healthcare cost. materials and methods: a rapid colorimetric method for antibacterial susceptibility testing named qui-sensitest (inovative biotechnology organization, istanbul, turkey) was eval...