Lactic acid bacteria, including lactobacilli, enterococci, leuconostoc and weissella species isolated from Iranian traditional fermented camel milk (Chal) were assessed for the incidence of virulence determinants (gelE, efaAfm, efaAfs, ace, espfs, cylM, cylA and cylB), sensitivity to various antibiotics and virulence phenotypes. The incidence of virulence genes was determined by polymerase cha...

Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Auto-matic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method to solve this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considered f...

Researchers in the eld of Distributed Arti cial Intelligence DAI have been developing e cient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multi ple autonomous agents The need for coordina tion arises because agents have to share resources and expertise required to achieve their goals Previous work in the area includes using sophis ticated information exchange protocols investi gating heuristics ...

A new concep t in the fo rm of a mobi le sc reen (0 .5 x 0 .4 m) produc ing u l t ra -c lean exponent ia l LAF (a i r f low cent ra l zone 0 .6 m/s and pe r iphera l zone 0 .4 m/s) was inves t iga ted as an addi t ion to convent iona l turbulent /mix ing opera t ing room vent i l a t ion . The evalua t ion was per formed dur ing s t r ic t ly s tandard ised sham opera t ions re f lec t ing cond...

Con tent: The suc cess ful in tro duc tion of ev i dence-based prac tice into psy chi a try re quires the ac qui si tion of new skills by cli ni cians. It is also im por tant that pol icy state ments that aim to be ev i dence-based, such as clin i cal prac tice guide lines, use rig or ous meth ods to syn the size the pri mary ev i dence and do not over look its lim i ta tions. One re sult of th...

On a global scale, athalassic inland salt lakes are abundant, albeit restricted to semiarid and arid climates. La Salada de Chiprana is unique in Western Europe, because it is a permanent and relatively deep (up to 5.6 m) hypersaline lake (40–90 g total dissolved salt L–1) since 1700 AD. It forms part of a cultural landscape, which imposes a chal‐ lenge for management. The aim of this paper is ...

Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DTI) is a rathernew technique that allows in vivo imaging of the brain nervousstructure. The DTI data is a 3D second-order positive semi-definite tensor field. DTI analysis and visualization is a chal-lenging field due to the lack of standards and high-dimensionalityof the data. This project focused on 1) implementation of aba...

This paper provides the first efficient, standard-model, fully-secure schemes for some related andchallenging forms of public-key encryption (PKE), namely deterministic and hedged PKE. These formsof PKE defend against subversion of random number generators, an end given new urgency by recentrevelations on the nature and extent of such subversion. We resolve the (recognized) technica...

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