the exponential growth of the flow of goods and passengers, fragility of certain products and the need for the optimization of transport costs impose on carriers to use more and more multimodal transport. in addition, the need for intermodal transport policy has been strongly driven by environmental concerns and to benefit from the combination of different modes of transport to cope with the in...

background: traffic noise is one of the major sources of environmental pollution that can cause permanent or temporary loss of hearing in drivers. the purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of hearing loss among professional long-distance drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal. methods: one thousand long distance occupational drivers in bandar abbas freight terminal not certifie...

recent advances in life-sustaining treatments and technologies, have given rise to newly-emerged, critical and sometimes, controversial questions regarding different aspects of end-of-life decision-making and care. since religious values are among the most influential factors in these decisions, the present study aimed to examine the islamic scholars' views on end-of-life care. a structured int...

the present work comprises the synthesis of one series of diarylmethane dyes containing one or more terminal methoxy substituents together with a variable tertiary amino group. the electronic absorption spectra of the dyes have been determined. as the conjugation of the terminal nitrogen atom improves in the sequence nmez > kairoline > julolidine, a progressive hypsochromic shift is observed

Let P ∈ Γ ⊂ X be the germ of a Gorenstein 3-fold singularity and Γ a smooth curve through it such that the general hyperplane section S of X containing Γ is DuVal of type E6 or E7. In this paper we obtain criteria for the existence of a terminal divisorial extremal neighborhood C ⊂ Y f −→ X ∋ P contracting an irreducible divisor E onto Γ and classify all such neighborhoods.

We prove that for a flipping contraction from a Gorenstein terminal 4fold, the pull back of a general hyperplane section of the down-stair has only canonical singularities. Based on this fact and using Siu-Kawamata-Nakayama’s extension theorem [Si], [Kaw4], [Kaw5] and [Nak2], we prove the existence of the flip of such a flipping contraction. Furthermore we classify such flipping contractions an...

Galectin-3 has a unique trimodular design consisting of the canonical lectin domain, a collagen-like tandem-repeat section and an N-terminal peptide with two sites for Ser phosphorylation. Structural characterization of the full-length protein with its non-lectin part (115 of 250 residues) will help understand the multifunctionality of this potent cellular effector. Here, we report H, C, and N ...

A two terminal spin-injection device is fabricated using a nanostencil process with a Co–Cu–Co stack. The stack can be deposited both by sputtering and by electron-beam evaporation. A better edge definition is observed in evaporation-deposited films under cross section transmission electron microscopy. Both methods succeeded in producing junctions with sub-100 nm lateral dimensions and show spi...

Let Γ ⊂ X be a smooth curve on a 3-fold. In this paper we classify terminal divisorial contractions E ⊂ Y −→ Γ ⊂ X contracting an irreducible surface E onto Γ, in the case when the general section of X containing Γ has D5 type singularities. In doing so we consider the problem of existence of MMP in families of canonical 3-folds, and we get results about existence of simultaneous Q-factorialisa...