Morphine was used as a remedy for the control of diarrhea centuries before it's sedative-analgesic effect was discovered. Although several mechanisms have been proposed for the morphine-induced inhibition of gastrointestinal transit (OIT), the exact mechanism has not yet been identified. On this basis the possible involvement of the dopaminergic system in morphine-induced inhibition of tra...

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This paper analyzes changes in passenger passenger activity and operating performance following implementation of a bus stop consolidation project at TriMet, the regional transit provider for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The study makes extensive use of archived bus operations and passenger activity data from TriMet’s automated bus dispatching system. Focusing on one of the first rou...

This research tends to analyze and assess the impact of intercity flows rate on land use changes around the community roads of the cities of Babol, Ghaem Shahr and Sari. This research is descriptive-analytic and performed in quantitative method. A wide range of techniques including gravity model, flow analysis model, entropy analysis and GIS software environment were applied for performing requ...

This paper concerns the problem of decision making on the selection of public transportation modes. The problem is formulated through sustainability indicators and the objective framework is based upon AHP-TOPSIS. In this research, the city of Isfahan (Iran) is our case study. The definition of different points of view was developed through interviews to stakeholders, experts in transportation ...

A number of space missions dedicated to the search for exo-planets via the transit method, such as COROT, Eddington and Kepler, are planned for launch over the next few years. They will need to address problems associated with the automated and efficient detection of planetary transits in light curves affected by a variety of noise sources, including stellar variability. To maximise the scienti...

Currently, over forty transiting planets have been discovered by ground-based photometric surveys, and space-based missions like Kepler and CoRoT are expected to detect hundreds more. Follow-up photometric observations from the ground will play an important role in constraining both orbital and physical parameters for newly discovered planets, especially those with small radii (Rp . 4 R⊕) and/o...

The Hipparcos Transit Data are a collection of partially reduced, fully calibrated observations of (mostly) double and multiple stars obtained with the ESA Hipparcos astrometry satellite. The data are publicly available, as part of the CD-ROM set distributed with the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA SP–1200, 1997), for about a third of the Hipparcos Catalogue entries including all confirmed ...

A suspended monorail transit system is a category of urban rail transit, which is effective in alleviating traffic pressure and injury prevention. Meanwhile, with the advantages of low cost and short construction time, suspended monorail transit systems show vast potential for future development. However, the suspended monorail has not been systematically studied in China, and there is a lack o...

The Hipparcos Transit Data are a collection of partially reduced, fully calibrated observations of (mostly) double and multiple stars obtained with the ESA Hipparcos astrometry satellite. The data are publicly available, as part of the CD-ROM set distributed with the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA SP–1200, 1997), for about a third of the Hipparcos Catalogue entries including all confirmed ...