thechah nimeh reservoirs of sistan is as one of the main water sources of zabol city used for drinking, agriculture, industry and livestock purposes. this study aimed to determine the contribution of the natural and concentration factors of heavy metals such as cd, pb and cu in sediment of chah nimeh of sistan. the concentrations of heavy metals in surface sediments were studied in six stations...

Wegener’s granulomatosis is an incurable vasculitis that can be life-threatening when end-organ damage occurs. Symptoms most commonly affect the nose, lungs, and kidneys. We present a case study of a 35-year-old male who presented with sequential bilateral otitis media, progressive mixed hearing loss, tinnitus, otalgia, otorrhea, and, later, bilateral facial nerve paralysis despite aggressive a...

Emerging heterogeneous multiprocessor chips will integrate a large number of different computational units: e.g., large cores for sequential processing, several smaller cores for parallel processing, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), media accelerators, helper processors, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), embedded FPGAs, and application-specific hardware circuits. These units are designed speci...

This paper describes our system in the ALTA shared task 2014. The task is to identify location mentions in Twitter messages, such as place names and point-ofinterests (POIs). We formulated the task as a sequential labelling problem, and explored various features on top of a conditional random field (CRF) classifier. The system achieved 0.726 mean-F measure on the held-out evaluation data. We di...

Three treatment media, used for the removal of arsenic from drinking water, were sequentially extracted using 10 mM MgCl2(pH 8), 10 mM NaH2PO4(pH 7) followed by 10 mM (NH4)2C2O4(pH 3). The media were extracted using an on-line automated continuous extraction system which allowed the arsenic in each of the extraction fluids to be speciated on-line using IC-ICP-MS. The 10 mM MgCl2 preferentially ...

STUDY QUESTION Which non-declared proteins (proteins not listed on the composition list of the product data sheet) are present in unconditioned commercial embryo culture media? SUMMARY ANSWER A total of 110 non-declared proteins were identified in unconditioned media and between 6 and 8 of these were quantifiable and therefore represent the majority of the total protein in the media samples. ...

we analyze a sequential decision making process, in which at each stepthe decision is made in two stages. in the rst stage a partially optimalaction is chosen, which allows the decision maker to learn how to improveit under the new environment. we show how inertia (cost of changing)may lead the process to converge to a routine where no further changesare made. we illustrate our scheme with som...

The proliferation of social media has served as an extension the life people; information seeking, socialization, and many other needs. study uses a sequential mixed method (quantitative qualitative design) to examine effects dependency on marital relationships in northern Ghana. Results revealed high Ghana with serious ramifications romantic relationships. Thus, frequent online engagement heig...