the nayband formation was measured and sampled in parvadeh area, southern tabas city. in this area, this formation has a thickness of 1410 m, dividing into four members, namely gelkan, bidestan, howz-e-sheikh and howz-e-khan. a total 573 samples were treated for palynological analysis, and only 120 samples were productive. a total of 57 miospore taxa and 11 plant macrofossil were encountered. b...

the problem of relative motion control for spacecraft formation flying in eccentric orbits is considered in this paper. due to the presence of nonlinear dynamics and external disturbances, a robust fuzzy sliding mode controller is developed. the slopes of sliding surfaces of the conventional sliding mode controller are tuned according to error states using a fuzzy logic and reach the pre-define...

the permian deposits in the stratigraphic section of sangsar (located in the eastern alborz), are the best expose in the semnan area. this sequence consists of the doroud (asselian-sakmarian), ruteh (artinskian-murgabian) and nessen (early djulfian) formations. the dorud formation in the studied section with 56 m thickness consists of conglomerate, sandstone and quartzite, which is disconformit...

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We prove that for generic network-formation games where players incur a strictly positive cost to propose links the number of Nash equilibria is finite. Furthermore all Nash equilibria are regular and, therefore, stable sets.

Biochemistry courses at Seattle University have been taught exclusively using process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) without any traditional lecture component since 1997. In these courses, students participate in a structured learning environment, which includes a preparatory assignment, an in-class activity, and a follow-up skill exercise. Instructor-designed learning activities prov...

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I study a network based mechanism of norm enforcement in a community where agents play a Prisoner’s Dilemma with changing partners. Agents may choose a number of close friends. Communication to close friends within the network enforces cooperation. In a world with noiseless communication, it is optimal that each agent has close contacts to all other network members. Moreover, it is optimal to h...