degradation model was introduced as an instrument of environmental impact assessment (eia) in iran. several methods are introduced in rapid environmental assessment, but none of them have evaluated landscape level. thus, the main objective of this research is to introduce a new spatial method for eia by using landscape metrics. a benefit of rapid assessment by using ecological landscape metrics...

Inheritance is an important aspect of object-oriented paradigm during software development. Inheritance supports the class hierarchy design and relation between classes and inheritance also has an impact on the complexity of software. Complexity of software increases the testing and maintenance efforts. So researchers and developer always try to reduce the software complexity because low softwa...

This Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) is gaining importance because of their flexibility, mobility and ability to work with a limited infrastructure. In multi-hop wireless network, proper utilization of battery power is very much necessary to maintain network connectivity.In order to overcome the network from inefficient routing problem, this paper presents different energy efficient routing prot...

the present study was designed to investigate the immunomodulatory activity of the ethanolic extract of tinospora cordifolia (family: menispermaceae)stem (climbing shrub, mango plant) at cellular level. for antioxidant study, the liver mitochondria were separated and the concentration of enzymes like lipid peroxidation (lpo), reduced glutathione (gsh), catalase (cat) and superoxide dismutase (s...

Do open source software projects provide and maintain tests? What metrics are correlated with the test success? This paper answers these questions by executing tests of 452 open source software projects in GitHub and measuring 13 metrics from 77 projects. Only 117 projects passed all test cases. Additionally, the results are correlated with the comment density, public documented API density, an...

G\"{o}del-type metrics that are homogeneous in both space and time remain, like the Schwarzschild metric, consistent within Chern-Simons modified gravity; this is true non-dynamical dynamical frameworks, each of which involves an additional pseudoscalar field coupled to Pontryagin density. In paper, we consider stationary first-order perturbations these framework. Under certain assumptions find...

BACKGROUND The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to objectively measure 'obesogenic' food environment (foodscape) exposure has become common-place. This increase in usage has coincided with the development of a methodologically heterogeneous evidence-base, with subsequent perceived difficulties for inter-study comparability. However, when used together in previous work, different ty...