background: platanus species are widely cultured around the world and considered an important cause of allergic reactions. in the present study, we developed a sandwich elisa to quantify pla or 3 allergen in p. orientalis pollen extracts grown near high-traffic roads and compared it to pollen extracts collected from rural areas as control. methods: pollen samples were collected from three pollu...

To address the limitations of SRAM such as high-leakage and low-density, researchers have explored use of nonvolatile memory (NVM) devices, such as ReRAM (resistive RAM) and STT-RAM (spin transfer torque RAM) for designing on-chip caches. A crucial limitation of NVMs, however, is that their write endurance is low and the large intra-set write variation introduced by existing cache management po...

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibits sustained oscillations under noise-free controlled conditions in continuous cultures. The regular periodicity of the oscillations and synchrony between different metabolic variables may be described by mathematical models and model-based control. Large bioreactors, however, are prone to disturbances or noise in the feed stream, which may alter the osc...

Prevalence of severe food insecurity was estimated for Brazilian municipalities based on the 2004 National Household Sample Survey (PNAD). First, a logistic regression model was developed and tested with this database. The model was then applied to the 2000 census data, generating severe food insecurity estimates for the Brazilian municipalities, which were subsequently analyzed according to th...

Information aggregation, a service that collects relevant information from multiple sources, has emerged to help individuals and businesses to effectively use the growing amount of information on the Web. In this paper, we analyzed a number of characteristics of information aggregation, namely comparison, relationship, and intra-organization aggregation. Using a case study, we demonstrated that...

one of the most important steps in policy making process is the implementation phase. unsuccessful implementation of complied policies especially industrial policies is one of the problems that almost all developing countries and developed ones, face with and they have paid irreparable costs for this problem too. the model for implementation of industrial policies in qom province presented in t...

objective: to evaluate the functional outcome and extensor apparatus of operative management of intra-articular fractures of distal humerus using modification of the triceps tongue flap approach. methods: this prospective study was conducted between june, 2012 to april,2014 in nims medical college and hospital, jaipur, rajasthan(india). we included 23 patients with intraarticular fractures of d...

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade integration. The ‘new economic...

In systems consisting of multiple clusters of processors interconnected by relatively slow connections such as our Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS), applications may benefit from the availability of processors in multiple clusters. However, the performance of single-application multicluster execution may be degraded due to the slow widearea links. In addition, scheduling policies for such s...

We present a formal model of intra-party politics to explain candidate selection within political parties. We think of parties as heterogeneous groups of individuals who aim to implement a set of policies but who differ in their priorities. When party heterogeneity is too great, parties are in danger of splitting into smaller yet more homogeneous political groups. In this context we argue that ...