A colony is meant to be a symbol manipulating system consisting of as simple as possible components which behave in a cooperative way such that the collective competence is stricty larger than the component competences. We introduce here colonies whose agents can only perform point mutation (hence the abbreviation PM) transformations of the common string (which represents the environment of the...

Thymol is a natural monoterpenoid phenol possessing various pharmacological activities such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, etc. The stable isotope ratio analysis has drawn attention in numerous fields such as agricultural, food authenticity, biochemistry, metabolism, medical research, etc. An investigation of the effect of the biofield energy treatment (The Trivedi Effect ® ) on the isotopic ab...

In this work, we solve the one-dimensional nonlinear logarithmic diffusion equation using a lattice-Boltzmann model and a d1q3 velocity scheme. Besides, the Tanh solitary wave method is used finding several families of solutions.

background: the appropriate colon cleansing is a major determinant of quality of colonoscopy. the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of the morning (am) peg (polyethylene glycol) solution to previous-evening (pm) peg solution for the afternoon colonoscopy. methods: this comparative study compared the am to pm prep for afternoon outpatient colonoscopy. the subjects ra...

Advances in hardware and wireless technology have made mobile devices ubiquitous in our daily life. Consequently, extending the battery life has become a major challenge needed to improve the usability of laptops. The purpose of a power management (PM) policy is to prolong a laptop’s battery life while not affecting the system performance as perceived by the user. The optimal strategy is to tur...

Ambient particulate matter (PM) can trigger adverse reactions in the respiratory system, but less is known about the effect of indoor PM. In this longitudinal study, we investigated the relationships between indoor PM and clinical parameters in patients with moderate to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Indoor air quality (PM2.5 and PM10 levels) was monitored in the pati...

In industries, Preventive Maintenance (PM) is not a new practice to minimise the sudden breakdown of production machine. PM will be performed at predetermine intervals to provide a balance between failure cost and component utilisation (aging). However, most of PM interval is based on experience or original equipment manufacturer (OEM) recommendations. Consequently, the benefits from PM are not...

The purpose of the present article is to take stock of a recent exchange in Organizational Research Methods between critics and proponents of partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM). The two target articles were centered around six principal issues, namely whether PLS-PM: (a) can be truly characterized as a technique for structural equation modeling (SEM), (b) is able to correct for measur...