In the past decade, cash transfers have been gaining in popularity as a preferred strategy for poverty reduction in different parts of the world. Some have even argued that it can become the solution to the problem of poverty. Some analysts have described cash transfers as not only “the most necessary, obvious and imperative strategy for poverty alle-viation” but even suggested “that these shou...

Conventional multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms aim to find a representative set of Pareto-optimal solutions from which the user may choose preferred solutions. For this purpose, most multi-objective PSO algorithms employ computationally expensive comparison procedures such as non-dominated sorting. The crucial task of choosing a single preferred solution from the obta...

Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that room cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are inefficient, unpredictable, and low in power density. Row-oriented and rack-oriented cooling architectures have been developed to address these problems....

In this paper, the portfolio selection problem is considered, where fuzziness and randomness appear simultaneously in optimization process. Since return and dividend play an important role in such problems, a new model is developed in a mixed environment by incorporating fuzzy random variable as multi-objective nonlinear model. Then a novel interactive approach is proposed to determine the pref...

introduction: there has been an increasing interest in studies dealing with the relationship between mental disorders and color preference. this study was tailored to evaluate color preference or rejection in schizophrenic and normal subjects. materials and method: color preference and rejection of 58 patients with dsm-iv diagnosis of schizophrenia were compared with those of 52 normal subjects...

Solution of a fuzzy transportation problem determines the transportation schedule that minimizes the total fuzzy transportation cost while satisfying the availability and requirement limits. A number of methods have been devised to solve a fuzzy transportation problem, but the solution obtained by some methods is not optimal. Obviously, the method which gives the optimal solution should be pref...

Aim: Patients with special needs, who have mental, physical or medical disabilities, were reported to worse oral hygiene than their healthy peers. Disabled patients are usually uncooperated, and dental treatments of these completed under several anesthesia types. Our aim was compare types in needs. Material Method: The study included review uncooperated patients, had mental between June 1, 2021...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine frequency of antibiotic use and retrospectively evaluate prescriptions written for the patients with diagnosis of acute pharyngitis, acute nasopharyngitis and acute tonsillitis by our hospital emergency department physicians in January 2014. METHODS Records of the patients who were admitted to the education and research hospital between January 1st, 2014 to Jan...

We present three attacks on the Prime Power RSA with modulus N = pq. In the first attack, we consider a public exponent e satisfying an equation ex − φ(N)y = z where φ(N) = pr−1(p − 1)(q − 1). We show that one can factor N if the parameters |x| and |z| satisfy |xz| < N r(r−1) (r+1)2 thereby extending the recent results of Sakar [16]. In the second attack, we consider two public exponents e1 and...

2,4,6-Tri(dimethylaminomethyl)-phenol was synthesized as a trifunctional moiety and incorporated onto poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PPO) to obtain a novel quaternary ammonium functionalized PPO (PPO-TQA). Membranes of the polymer were fabricated and exhibited high conductivity, a low swelling ratio and water uptake.