abstract- over the past 50 years, oil mulching has been a common technique for sand dune stabilization in the southwest of iran (khuzestan province). however, concerns over the release of heavy metals from oil mulching have led to the search for alternative mulches that are capable of stabilizing sand dunes without environmental hazards. this study investigates the feasibility of using sugarcan...

Hierarchical Powell-Sabin splines are C-continuous piecewise quadratic polynomials defined on a hierarchical triangulation. The mesh is obtained by partitioning an initial conforming triangulation locally with a triadic split, so that it is no longer conforming. We propose a normalized quasi-hierarchical basis for this spline space. The B-spline basis functions have a local support, they form a...

We present a multigrid algorithm for the solution of the linear systems that arise from a finite element discretization of second order elliptic partial differential equations with Powell-Sabin splines. We show that the method yields a uniform convergence independent of the mesh size.

Recently we developed multiscale spaces of C piecewise quadratic polynomials relative to arbitrary polygonal domains Ω ⊂ R. These multiscale bases are weakly stable with respect to the L2 norm. In this paper we show that these bases form strongly stable Riesz bases for the Sobolev spaces Hs(Ω) with s ∈ (2, 5 2 ).

In their cross-sectional study, Powell et al found no evidence that genetic ancestry or self-reported ethnicity effected lung function among US smokers, in particular no evidence of a reduced risk of COPD in Hispanics (Hispanic paradox) previously described in a prospective study by Bruse et al. This observation might be due, in part, to the definition of Hispanic and lighter smoking histories ...

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background and objective: determination of hormone receptor status in the management of breast cancer is well-established. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of androgen receptor (ar) expression in invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. materials and methods: for this purpose, 55 cases of invasive ductal breast carcinoma were examined using a monoclonal antibody against ar on for...