The nature of Dark Matter remains one of the outstanding questions of modern astrophysics. The success of the Cold Dark Matter cosmological model argues strongly in favor of a major component of the dark matter being in the form of elementary particles , not yet discovered. Based on earlier theoretical considerations, a possible link between the recent SPI/INTEGRAL measurement of an intense and...

The treatment of idiopathic scoliosis is challenging because of its diverse etiology, age of onset, and long duration of intensive treatment. We examined the effect of lateral electrical surface stimulation (LESS) in an animal model of experimental scoliosis (ES) assessing the number of motor end-plates (MEPs) as a study end-point. The control group (n=5) was adapted to the experimental apparat...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that abstinent alcoholics have difficulties processing a variety of emotion-laden stimuli, and some of these difficulties may not fully resolve with long-term abstinence. The current study examined whether emotion-word processing difficulties were present in long-term abstinent alcoholics (LTAA; 18+ months of sobriety) with and without a previously diagnosed externa...

Recent studies have shown that soil particle size analyses using laser diffraction method (LDM) can give compatible results compared with traditional sedimentation based methods, if the clay-silt cutoff is transformed. Additionally, procedures including separation of sand fraction by wet sieving and running a well dispersed sample only fractions smaller than during measurement, given promising ...

Neutron Stars (NSs) are born as hot, lepton-rich objects that evolve according to the standard paradigm through subsequent stages where they radiate excess of energy by emitting, first, neutrinos and, later on, photons. Current descriptions based on Standard Model calculations cannot fully explain all existing cooling data series for dozens have been reported. In this work, we consider intrigui...

Gabor filter is widely used to extract spatial texture features of hyperspectral images (HSI) for HSI classification; however, a single cannot obtain the complete image features. In paper, we propose an classification method that combines (GF) and domain-transformation standard convolution (DTNC) filter. First, use from first two principal components dimensionality-reduction with PCA. Second, D...

Abstract The research aims to show the ability convert Fused Deposition Modeling 3D printer be compatible with clay mixture after modifying structure, setting up Cura software, and changing print head technology. This solution provides teams scientists opportunities in several ways (manufacture patch antenna substrate, dielectric automobile sensors, ceramic aerospace technology). Additive manuf...

To improve the dynamical behaviors of 1D chaotic maps, a new linear-delay-modulation method (LDM) is proposed. Derived from Sine map, delayed map (DSM) proposed based on LDM. Then, we substitute in SIMM system with DSM and obtained (DSIMM). Its performance analyzed through phase diagram, Lyapunov exponent spectrum, complexity. The results show that can generate more complex random sequences. He...