Mucosal epithelia of the human body, including the lining of the digestive, respiratory and urogenital tracts, comprises a vast surface permanently exposed to attack by exogenous pathogens. Protection of mucosal surfaces against colonization and possible invasion by pathogenic microorganisms is provided by a combination of constitutive non-specific substances such as mucus, lysozyme, lactoferri...

The correlations of multiple renewable power plants (RPPs) should be fully considered in the power system with very high penetration renewable power integration. This paper models the uncertainties, spatial correlation of multiple RPPs based on Copula theory and actual probability historical histograms by one-dimension distributions for economic dispatch (ED) problem. An efficient dynamic renew...

the present study investigates the accumulation of vanadium, iron, and nickel in different depths of soil in collection sites of oil sludge, in masjed soleyman oil and gas exploitation company, located in choob sorkh region. to conduct the research, four sampling points have been selected at the mentioned site, with one sampling point chosen outside the site, as the clean area. soil sampling ha...

Coastal water regions represent some of the most fragile ecosystems, exposed to both climate change and human activities. While remote sensing provides unprecedented amounts of data for water quality monitoring on regional to global scales, the performance of satellite observations is frequently impeded by revisiting intervals and unfavorable conditions, such as cloud coverage and sun glint. Th...

The Internet increasingly serves as a platform for the delivery of public health interventions. The efficacy of Internet interventions has been demonstrated across a wide range of conditions. Much more work remains, however, to enhance the potential for broad population dissemination of Internet interventions. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of Internet interventions, with particu...

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