although there exist advanced models which predict beach profile for natural beaches, the behavior of the beaches in front of seawalls still suffers from the lack of appropriate theoretical models and sufficient measured data. in this paper, following the results obtained from the measurements, a beach profile evolution model is developed, using the measured probability distribution of the near...

background: sickle-cell anemia is characterized by defective hemoglobin synthesis with production of sickle hemoglobin. sickle red blood cells become deformed and rigid with difficulty to pass through narrow capillaries and frequent clotting and thrombosis leading to repetitive vascular occlusions and progressive organ damage. we conducted this work to study some adrenal functions using acth st...

introduction: many studies have revealed that drug addicted individuals exhibit impaired performance on executive function tests but a few studies have been conducted on executive functions of drug addicts in iran. to contribute to this understanding, the present study was designed to assess some domains related to executive functions including cognitive flexibility, attention and speed of ment...

The set of integer solutions (x 1 , x 2 , x 3) to the equation (1.1) x 2 1 + x 2 2 + x 2 3 = n has been much studied. However it appears that the spatial distribution of these solutions at small and critical scales as n → ∞ have not been addressed. The main results announced below give strong evidence to the thesis that the solutions behave randomly. This is in sharp contrast to what happens wi...

Metadata plays a vital role in both the development and use of statistical information. The production of information requires that data and metadata be viewed as as a totality rather than individually; thus, metadata management must be seen as an integral part of statistics production. Moreover, since metadata provides the basis for human understanding of data, the cognitive aspects of metadat...

Although writing is an integral part of education, there is limited knowledge on how assigned topics influence writing quality both in terms of micro-level linguistic features and macro-level subjective evaluations by human judges. We addressed this question by conducting a study in which 44 students wrote short essays on three different topics: traditional academic-based topics such as the one...

We give several characterizations of discrete Sugeno integrals over bounded distributive lattices, as particular cases of lattice polynomial functions, that is functions which can be represented in the language of bounded lattices using variables and constants. We also consider the subclass of term functions as well as the classes of symmetric polynomial functions and weighted minimum and maxim...

A large class of Type II fluid solutions to Einstein field equations in Ndimensional spherical spacetimes is found, wich includes most of the known solutions. A family of the generalized collapsing Vaidya solutions with homothetic self-similarity, parametrized by a constant λ, is studied, and found that when λ > λc(N), the collapse always forms black holes, and when λ < λc(N), it always forms n...

in this paper, we introduce hybrid of block-pulse functions and bernstein polynomials and derive operational matrices of integration, dual, differentiation, product and delay of these hybrid functions by a general procedure that can be used for other polynomials or orthogonal functions. then, we utilize them to solvedelay differential equations and time-delay system. the method is based upon ex...

We specifv and estimate an equilibrium job search model with pro” ductivitv differences across labor market segments. The model allows for two types of unemployment: frictional unemployment due to search frictions and structural unemployment due to wage floors. Wage floors exist because of high unemplovment benefits or binding minimum wages. The . productivitv distribution is estimated semi-non...