Background: Expansion of the use of magnetic fields in metals, mining, transport, research, and medicine industries has led to a discussion about the effects of magnetic fields and whether their strength is negligible. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of magnetic field on the viability and proliferation rate of HeLa cells. Materials and methods: We studied the effects of ma...

Potato zebra chip (ZC), caused by the bacterial pathogen 'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum', which is vectored by the potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli), has caused widespread damage to U.S. potato production ever since its first discovery in south Texas in 2000. To determine the influence of environmental factors and management practices on ZC occurrence, data on management and meteor...

based on, historical seismicity, position of 19-century instrumental epicenters, fault zones, relation of seismicity with active faults, and structural geology, statistics of earthquake activites, model studies for estimation of acceleration, and other information of intensities of iranian earthquakes, and for simplicity in the usage, the country is divided into two intensity provinces. in the ...

background and objectives: electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields can act as stress factors with different effects on biological systems. due to the nutritional and medicinal values, and the increasing electromagnetic radiations, the present study was performed to investigate the effects of the electromagnetic field on the developmental stages and cytotoxic properties of okra. methods: b...

The optical methods of Caustics, Photoelasticity and Isopachics for the evaluation of the stress intensity factors and the distribution of the principal stresses at a bi-material interface crack-tip, were proposed. The caustics, isochromatic and isopachic fringes are developed from the stress field which results from a stress function X(r, ). When the crack-tip, which is perpendicular to interf...

The radio waves are more complex in confined environments. In order to obtain the propagation character of radio wave in the mine tunnel, the electric-field intensity and magnetic-field intensity of horizontal polarization wave are deduced according to Maxwell equation and the boundary condition of tunnel. The attenuation coefficients of electric field in horizontal and vertical polarization ar...

In the current research work, the problem of fracture mechanics in a plate with a central hole under tensile loading is studied. The stress intensity factors are calculated for a finite plate containing two symmetrical hole-edge cracks. The problem is solved by two different methods, namely the finite element method and the FRANC software analysis. At first the finite element method is used and...