Secondary toxcity of difethialone to Barn owl (Tyto alba) has been investigated. Difethialone was fed to owls for successive periods of 1 (phase 1), 3 (phase 2) and 6 (phase 3) days viarodenticide dosed rats. The owls survived after the treament of rodenticide on phase 1 and phase 2 experiments but they died during phase 3 experiment. The results suggest that the difethialone could cause more s...

We present a new associative memory model that stores arbitrary bipolar patterns without the problems we can find in other models like BAM or LAM. After identifying those problems we show the new memory topology and we explain its learning and recall stages. Mathematical demonstrations are provided to prove that the new memory model guarantees the perfect retrieval of every stored pattern and a...

3 Running ASpli 2 3.1 To BIN or not to BIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3.2 Read Counting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2.1 Mapping file and bam loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.2 Overlap features and read ali...

ABSTRACT The majority of concrete buildings in the regions of high seismicity in Iran do not meet seismic code requirement, and many of these buildings are vulnerable in severe earthquakes. Concerns for seismic strengthening of concrete grew considerably in the recent years, and has been accelerated since the Bam earthquake 2004. This paper presents the results of experimental and analytical st...

On 12 January 2010 at 4.50 pm local time (the middle of the night in Europe), the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault awoke. The earth began to shake, thick white dust rose above Port-au-Prince while a terrifying noise echoed out. Complete silence followed only to be broken by the screaming and crying of hundreds of thousands of Haitians. When the news reached us at Groupe URD we were in the proce...

Bam Project started suddenly after the earthquake on December 26, 2003, that collapsed an important cultural heritage in south-east Iran, Citadel of Bam. This paper briefly summarizes our nearly eight years of effort for post-disaster reconstruction of Bam Citadel. The paper starts with the framework of the project that consists of architectural process and conceptual process and we discuss the...

A strong earthquake with magnitude 6.5 struck the city of Bam in the southeast Iran on December 26, 2003. The earthquake brought massive destruction to the city and its surrounding rural areas. The earthquake caused the deaths of approximately more than 26,000 residents and injured about 30,000. QuickBird captured a clear image of Bam on January 3, 2004, eight days after the event. The city was...

So you think you can't dance? (The mysterious case of the guy with two left feet) Mathieu did not just suddenly come to realize this problem, and he did not give up easily. He spent most of his 23 years of life studying music (various instruments , voice) and dance (Latin dance lessons, and he even performed in a dance troupe at a family amusement park!), only to find, time after time, that he ...

Research on sexual-partner type has focused mostly on “main” and “casual” partner categories and has found, for example, that adolescent girls were less likely to use condoms with main partners and more likely to use condoms with casual partners. It is likely that adolescent mothers differ from other adolescents in having different types of sexual partners that cannot be simply characterized as...

This paper contains two main parts. First, we give an overview of photogrammetric and remote sensing techniques in applications related to disaster management procedures. Remotely sensed data potentially provides valuable seismicity-related data in terms of both assessing the potential of risk and defining the state of vulnerability. The paper illustrates the use of advanced remote sensing tech...