Waste fibers produced from manufacturing processes are a byproduct commonly deposited in storing yards and/or landfills and thus results in many serious environmental problems in Iran. If these waste materials could be advantageously put to practical use in any application, it would reduce the burden on the environment and landfills. This paper compares the performance of the stone matrix aspha...

Colonies of ants can collectively choose the best of several nests, even when many of the active ants who organize the move visit only one site. Understanding such a behavior can help us design efficient distributed decision making algorithms. Marshall et al. propose a model for house-hunting in colonies of ant Temnothorax albipennis. Unfortunately, their model does not achieve optimal decision...

The Department of Microbiology at the Marshall University School of Medicine is seeking Ph.D. applicants for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the area of eukaryotic molecular or developmental genetics. We are particularly interested in individuals who have research interest in the molecular basis of inherited human diseases, mapping/identification of disease loci, and...