this study was performed to investigate the effect of different levels of irrigation water applied in tape drip irrigation on yield, seed yield components, oil yield, seed oil percent, and seed water use efficiency (wue) of two canola varieties in behbahan agriculture research station in 2009 and 2010 seasons. the experiment was performed in split plots as a randomized complete block design wit...

We identify “proper quantum computation” with computational processes that cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer. For optical quantum computation, we establish “no-go” theorems for classes of quantum optical experiments that cannot yield proper quantum computation, and we identify requirements for optical proper quantum computation that correspond to violations of assumptions ...

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The recent manuscript “Ethics Requirement Score: new tool for evaluating ethics in publications” is very interesting.(1) Santos et al. reported that “although the Impact Factor of foreigner journals was considerably higher than that of the Brazilian publications, the results showed that the Impact Factor has no correlation with the proposed score”.(1) Indeed, the Impact Factor does not reflect ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of vital capacity (VC) and a proposed ventilator requirement index (VRI) for justifying ventilator prescription and use for patients with neuromuscular/chest wall diseases (NMD). DESIGN Prospective observational study in which 319 patients with NMD, including 187 ventilator users, were separated into four groups: (1) asymptomatic, (2) abnormal specific scre...