as surfactants enhance the membrane transport of organic compounds, it has to be assumed that they decisively influence the absorption of pollutants from house dust. sampling sites for the surfactant analysis include housing areas, each location of which has different surroundings such as rural, urban, construction, and industrial area. three stations had been selected for each housing area and...

the aim of this study is to determine the area affected by dust storms in different wind speeds using satelliteimages. in the first step, windy conditions of the sistan plain were analyzed using wind statistics data. next, fivestormy days of zabol city, indicating different wind speeds and horizontal visibilities during those storms, wereselected. then, high temporal resolution modis data was u...

Nowadays, globalization and competitiveness are major challenges in almost all organizations and managers are seeking modern approaches to gain more competitive advantages. Considering these circumstances, issues such as strategic management, benchmarking and balanced score card (BSC) become important. In this paper, benchmarking and its role in strategic management have been demonstrated. BSC ...

549. MoCA Utility as a Quick Testing Tool for Neurocognitive Disorders in HIV Patients: Analysis of a Prospective Cohort Vanina Stanek, MD; Marisa Del Luján Sanchez, MD; Mariana De Paz Sierra, MD; Cecilia Losada, MD; Ines Zerboni, BSc(Psych); Maria Antonieta Gomez, BSc(Psych); Maria Mercedes Cegarra, BSc(Psych); María Cecilia Fernandez, MD; Angel Golimstok, MD and Waldo Belloso, MD; Internal Me...

695. Physician Perceptions and Attitudes Towards an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Computerized Decision-making Systems: A Focus Group Study Alvin Qijia Chua, BSc (Pharm) (Hons); Sing Teang Kong, PhD; Lai Wei Lee, BSc (Pharm) (Hons); Daphne Yah Chieh Yii, BPharm; Sarah Si Lin Tang, BSc (Pharm) (Hons); Winnie Lee, BPharm (Hons), MSc (Epi); Andrea L. Kwa, PharmD and Desiree Lie, MD, MSED; ...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) provides an enterprise view of an organization’s overall performance. It integrates financial measures with other key performance indicators around customer perspectives, internal business processes, and organizational growth, learning, and innovation. The strategy planning is a virtual necessity for business activities, and this paper presents the use of the analyt...

Logistic performance measurement and management have always been a major concern for enterprises. The Balance Score Card (BSC) is one of the most used tools of performance management. This article explores a conceptual basis for understanding the development of a BSC oriented logistic performance using the ECOGRAI method. The first aim of our contribution is to present the method ECOGRAI/BSC in...

Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Prof S Mallal FRACP, D Nolan FRACP, C Witt PhD, G Masel MBBS, A M Martin PhD, C Moore BSc, D Sayer Bsc, C Mamotte PhD, D Maxwell, Prof I James PhD); Department of Clinical Immunology and Biochemical Genetics, Royal Perth Hospital (S Mallal, C Witt, G Masel,...

OBJECTIVE Benzophenone semicarbazone (BSC) was synthesized and characterized to identify compounds with anticancer activities. METHODS Anticancer activities were studied against Ehrlich Ascites Carcinoma (EAC) cells in Swiss albino mice by monitoring parameters such as tumor weight measurement, survival time of tumor bearing mice, tumor cell growth inhibition, and so on. Some hematological pa...

This paper presents a nonlinear integral backstepping controller (I-BSC) design scheme for T-type residual current compensation (RCC) inverter used in compensated distribution networks with rapid earth fault limiters (REFCLs). The major control task the proposed is to reduce value suitable mitigation of powerline bushfires due single phase-to-ground faults networks. key distinct feature I-BSC o...