management of the forest resources and related activities has significant effects on the environment. applying the environmental impact assessment (eia) provides a basis for improving forest management plans. however, in the developing countries such as iran, there have been so far no serious endeavors and research to undertake the eia of the various practices affecting the forest resources, de...

In this paper, Laplace Decomposition Method (LDM) which is coupling of Laplace Transform (LT) and Adomian’s Decomposition Method (ADM) is employed to construct the exact solution of two mathematical problems which arises in diverse fields of physics. It has been observed that this proposed coupling is very efficient and reliable for the solution of the nonlinear problems. Numerical results and ...

With regard to the differences between soil particle size distribution (PSD) obtained by sieve-sedimentation methods (SSMs), e.g., sieve-pipette method (SPM) and laser diffraction (LDM), usually, clay fraction content in LDM measurements is lower than SSM. Two groups of reasons can be identified for this. Firstly, resulting from features themselves. Secondly, sample preparation (after sampling)...

The development of (semi)-autonomous vehicles and communication between vehicles and infrastructure (V2X) will aid to improve road safety and reduce emissions by identifying dangerous traffic scenes based on movement patterns. A key to this is the Local Dynamic Map (LDM), which acts as an integration platform for static, temporary, and dynamic information about traffic in a geographical context...

When we talk about objects in an environment, we indicate to a listener which object is currently under consideration by using pointing gestures and reference terms as ‘this’ and ‘that’. Such reference terms play an important role in human interaction by quickly informing the listener of an indicated object’s location. In this research, we propose a three-layer attention-drawing model for human...

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) activation is necessary for many insulin-induced metabolic and mitogenic responses. However, it is unclear whether PI3K activation is sufficient for any of these effects. To address this question we increased PI3K activity in differentiated 3T3-L1 adipocytes by adenovirus-mediated expression of both the inter-SH2 region of the regulatory p85 subunit of PI3K ...

An optical sensor such as a laser range finder (LRF) or laser displacement meter (LDM) uses reflected and returned laser beam from a target. The optical sensor has been mainly used to measure the distance between a launch position and the target. However, optical sensor based LRF and LDM have numerous and various errors such as statistical errors, drift errors, cyclic errors, alignment errors a...

BACKGROUND Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor crizotinib has proven to be effective in the treatment of ALK-mutated neuroblastoma, but crizotinib resistance was commonly observed in patients. We aimed to overcome crizotinib resistance by combining with the MEK inhibitor trametinib or low-dose metronomic (LDM) topotecan in preclinical neuroblastoma models. METHODS We selected a panel o...

The main objective of the present investigation is to explore polyherbal containing Centella asiatica, Glycerrhiza glabra, Gymnosporia montana and Cow urine for its neuroleptic properties, using the tail suspension test (TST), light dark test (LDM) and elevated plus maze (EPM) test on mice. Pharmacognostic and pharmacological study of aerial part of Centella asiatica, root of Glycerrhiza glabra...