Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Final Report: Rotman Lens Sidewall Design and Optimization with Hybrid Hardware/software Based Programming Report Title This final report provides a summary of the tasks completed under this contract: 1. Hybrid bio-inspired optimization: This task involves developing a hybrid bio-inspired optimization algorithm which enhances the Artificial ...

The use of bio-signal is very crucial, providing enormous information concerning health and well-being the individual. such signals can be measured monitored by specialized devices to each bio-signal, for instance, electrocardiogram (ECG), electromyography (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), electrooculogram (EOG). Due devices, these could utilized several objectives. As it observed in medical d...

In order to investigate the effect of different levels of nitrogen and bio-fertilizers on yield of canola plants in Qazvin, Iran, a split-plot design was conducted on the base of randomized complete block design with four replications. Treatments included 3 levels of nitrogen (0, 75 and 150 kg ha-1) and bio-fertilizers on four levels (no inoculation, Azotobacter, Azospirillum and a combination ...

Abstract Ionizing radiation is ubiquitous in the environment. Its source can be natural, such as radioactive materials present soil and cosmic rays, or artificial, fuel for nuclear power plants. Overexposure to ionizing may damage living tissue could cause severe health problems (i.e., mutations, sickness, cancer, death). Cytogenetic bio-dosimetry has great advantage take into account inter-ind...

objective: this study is an attempt to examine the anti apoptotic effects of bio on rat msc culture. materials and methods: rat marrow primary cell culture was established and exposure groups were defined; cultures with 0.01, 0.1, 1 μm bio. cells cultured without bio treatment were used as controls. during culture expantion, the average doubling time, as an index of the rate of cell growth, wer...

this research set out to evaluate the effect of combined biological and chemical nitrogen fertilizers on some corn hybrids. to this end an experiment was conducted as split plot on the basis of randomized complete block design with four replications. main plots were included: use of chemical and biological fertilizers in four levels: 100% chemical fertilizer, 75% chemical fertilizer + 100% bio-...

in order to study the effect of chemical and biological fertilizers on silage corn under different plant densities, a split plot experiment was carried out in a randomized completely block design with three replicates in south western iran. the main plot included nitrogen fertilizer treatment at three levels (n1: with out chemical and organic fertilizers, n2: 75% chemical fertilizer + 100% orga...

As a teenager in a South Dakota hamlet (Pierpont, population 326 in the 1940 census) I had no idea that I would become a scientist. The only formal science course my tiny high school (40 students in four grades, taught by three teachers) offered was physics, taught by the sports coach (a history major) and featuring the ‘‘dissection’’ of a 1928 Overland (teacher: ‘‘I have been told that the mod...

The paper focuses on bio®lms subject to turbulent ̄ow and high liquid velocity (of the order of 1 m s) which can be found in heat exchangers, water distribution systems and in some wastewater reactors. An overall model describing bio®lm development is presented, which includes the effects of biomass detachment due to the hydrodynamic forces. A methodology for estimating substrate consumption fr...