the production of healthy and high-quality meat and meat products in line with consumers’ demand for natural foods has become a major challenge for the meat production industry. herbal extracts and essential oils have shown potentially significant antimicrobial effects against spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms present in meat products; however, they tend to have a limited use due to the in...

in recent decades, “figurative language” has gained the interest of a large number of russian linguists as a source of lexical enrichment. persian and russian manifest, are more or less, a different image of a movement. nevertheless, these verbs share a number of linguistic features, although they belong to two diverse languages. due to the high frequency in the function of movement verbs in th...

conclusions intestinal myiasis in humans is probably an accidental myiasis, related to the ingestion of contaminated uncooked food or water containing fly larvae, especially in individuals with poor hygienic conditions. nevertheless, this is the first reported case of intestinal myiasis due to l. illustris in iran. case presentation herein, we present a case of accidental human intestinal myias...

Disaster recovery operations rarely proceed smoothly and disruptions often require the redistribution of relief items. Such a redistribution has to be carried out taking into account both the current disruption and the uncertainty regarding possible future incidents in the respective area. As decisions have to be made fast in humanitarian operations, extensive optimization runs cannot be conduc...

calculations, since there is no directly measur­ able quantity that adequately reflects radiation exposure [1,2]. Nevertheless, the most adequate approach to describe risks associated with ion­ izing radiation is to describe it in terms of dose. Adding up the weighted equivalent doses of all organs, the effective dose (E) is computed. Since it is a single number, E – which is measured in mSv – ...

Holistic processing (HP) is an expertise marker in visual perception; nevertheless, it can be modulated by writing experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2014). We have recently found that HP also indicates expertise in Cantonese speech perception (Liu & Hsiao, 2014). Nevertheless, Cantonese has a logographic writing system where one syllable corresponds to one character, whereas in alphabetic languages...

The standardization of care processes in medicine, like Clinical pathways, is becoming more and more a common practice in health care organizations. Nevertheless, their design is not an easy task. Some approaches in the literature are based on using Workflow technology for defining Clinical Pathways. These approaches allow the creation of unambiguous, complete and automatically executable proto...

approach further extends the blackboard notion, considering it as a shared communication mean among all the agents available on the network. This gives rise to the DCBA (Distributed Control Blackboard Architecture), which is described in [5]. This research effort is just at its earliest development stages, and it leaves many issues still open. For example, we didn't address so far the problem o...

Gödel’s incompleteness results show that if ZF is consistent, it is impossible to construct within ZF itself a single object (set) that represents a complete and precise semantic model of ZF. Nevertheless, it has also become clear since then that many kinds of partial models can be constructed within ZF that reveal interesting characteristics of ZF and related formal systems. We develop here on...

All 433 patients with colorectal cancer who presented in the north-east of Scotland during 1968 and 1969 were followed up for seven years or until death intervened. The incidence of colorectal cancer in the region was the highest recorded in Great Britain. Half the patients were incurable at the time of diagnosis. Nevertheless, of the 195 survivors of radical resection 146 (75%) did not die of ...