background: nutritional strategies targeting improvement of poultry performance and disease prevention are currently being developed and in this respect the dietary intake of spiced essential oils and pre-biotics in raising broilers is receiving attention. objectives: this study was conducted to compare the effects of diet containing ginger essential oils (geo) and mannan-oligosaccharide (mos) ...

background: soil serves as a major reservoir for contaminants as it can bind to various chemicals. the aim of this study was to evaluate the levels of some metals (cd, cu, fe and v) in soil samples collected from different stations of ahvaz industrial complex ii to determine the natural and anthropogenic contribution of metal in the soil. methods: this was an experimental study that carried out...

This paper describes statistical models and an efficient Monte-Carlo algorithm for detecting tracks of slowly moving objects in optical telescope imagery sequences. The algorithm is based on accurate robust image pre-registration with respect to the star background, hot/warm pixel suppression, extracting dense normalized local image features, pixelwise statistical event detection, segmentation ...

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application for location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. Previous studies show that modeling the sequential pattern of user check-ins is necessary for POI recommendation. Markov chain model, recurrent neural network, and the word2vec framework ar...

The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of GPS use for a geosynchronous (GEO) satellite. Current missions at GEO altitude mainly use traditional ranging for orbit determination. With changing mission requirements and the increase in the number of GEO missions, utilizing GPS signals is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative for position and timing determination. A previo...

1 Summary Network scalability is one of the critical challenges and requirements in routing protocols for ad hoc networks. This paper presents a novel scalable routing protocol called Geo-LANMAR. The proposed protocol inherits the group motion support of Landmark Routing (LANMAR) and applies the geo-routing concept to deliver packets efficiently. In this framework, the integration between geo-c...

Individual perceptions are essential when evaluating the well-being benefits from urban green spaces. This study predicted the influence of perceived green space characteristics in the city of Szeged, Hungary, on two well-being variables: the green space visitors' level of satisfaction and the self-reported quality of life. The applied logistic regression analysis used nine predictors: seven pe...