cantaloupe (cucumis melo var. cantalopensis) is an important vegetable crop and is grown on 35000 hectares in iran, mostly in tehran, markazi, qom, esfahan, khorasan, semnan, booshehr and hormozgan provinces. to improve local semsoori population for concentrated yielding, a breeding program was initiated in 2000 in varamin agricultural research center, varamin, iran. in the first step a mass se...

The paper proposes a novel method for PSL language assertions conversion to a system representation model called High-Level Decision Diagrams (HLDD). Previous works have shown that HLDDs are an efficient model for simulation and convenient for diagnosis and debug. We present a technique, where checking of PSL assertions is integrated into fast HLDDbased simulation. There are three main contribu...

he investigation by The BMJ and Cambridge and Bath universities into the availability of breakthrough hepatitis C drugs raises important questions for NHS England about access to lifesaving drugs. But why are medicines so expensive in the first place? The pricing strategy of Gilead for sofosbuvir (Sovaldi) and ledipasvir-sofosbuvir (Harvoni) raises questions that go well beyond the UK. The BMJ'...

Somehow I got assigned to create a faculty bulletin board, with photos of each faculty member along with answers to several questions students had asked. Someone started on it about two years before, but there were photos and quotes from only about a third of the faculty. This seemed unnecessarily tacky–just who were the rest of the faculty, and why weren’t they included? So, the Chair of the d...

Historically, Denmark—like the other Nordic countries—has had relatively few, and low residential high-rise buildings compared to urbanized countries. Inspired by an international vertical urban turn, however, multiple high-rises have now been planned built. This has refueled debate on whether living in is compatible with Danish housing culture our high standard of social life. From this local ...

High-technology projects are known as tools that help achieving productive forces through scientific and technological knowledge. These knowledge-based projects are associated with high levels of risks and returns. The process of high-technology project and project portfolio selection has technical complexities and uncertainties. This paper presents a novel two-parted method of high-technology ...