While both the quantity and quality of food ingested are potent regulators of whole body protein metabolism in ruminants, little data are available on responses across a wide range of intakes. The current study examined the responses in whole body protein flux (PrF) to such intake changes and compared these with the responses across the hind-quarters (in a companion study). Six growing sheep (6...

Plant ionomes and soil nutrients are commonly diagnosed in agronomy using concentration and nutrient ratio ranges. However, both diagnoses are biased by redundancy of information, subcompositional incoherence and non-normal distribution inherent to compositional data, potentially leading to conflicting results and wrong inferences. Our objective was to present an unbiased statistical approach o...

We present numerically derived orbits and mass estimates for the inner Saturnian satellites, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus from a fit to 2580 new Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem astrometric observations spanning 2004 February to 2013 August. The observations are provided as machine-readable and Virtual Observatory tables. We estimate GMAtlas = (0.384± 0.001) × 10 −3 km s, ...

اندازه‌گیری پرتو گاما در زمینه‌های مختلف تحقیقاتی نیازمند آشکارسازهای کارآمد است. زمینه دزیمتری فوتون آشکارساز جرقه‌ای NaI(Tl) به عنوان یکی از سوسوزن معدنی (غیرآلی)، علت دارا بودن مقدار بالای نور خروجی بسیار حایز اهمیت این پژوهش سعی گردیده است، با کمک کد مونت‌کارلو (MCNPX) مقدمات مشخصه‌یابی توسط و بهره‌گیری روش‌های متفاوت محاسبه دز (تالی‌های 6F، 4*F، 6+F 8*F) انجام شود. طور معمول، یک تابش (شمار...

هدف: پژوهش حاضر با هدف شناسایی و اولویت‌بندی پیشایندها پسایندهای سبک رهبری چابک استفاده از روش دلفی فازی صورت پذیرفت.طراحی/ روش‌شناسی/ رویکرد: این نوع پژوهش‌های آمیخته رویکرد کیفی کمی در پارادایم استقرایی است که نظر هدف، کاربردی لحاظ ماهیت روش، اکتشافی است. جامعه آماری شرکت‌های دانش‌بنیان استان لرستان هستند 30 نفر خبرگان آنها بر اساس اصل کفایت نظری نمونه‌گیری هدفمند انتخاب شده‌اند. ابزار گردآور...

Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep are independently associated with cognition in older adults. These time-use behaviours not independent, rather, co-dependent parts of the 24-hour day. As such, spending more time one leaves less for others. The balance three day (or composition) should be considered to inform movement guidelines dementia risk reduction populations. Usi...

Mitral annular disjunction (MAD), which involves an abnormal atrial insertion of the mitral annulus, has been associated with increased risk for malignant arrhythmias. n/a A 64-year-old female no significant past medical history had experiencing symptomatic palpitations along substernal chest pain following a recent viral illness. She underwent extensive cardiac workup, including exercise tread...

We investigate the effect of spiral structure on the Galactic disk as viewed by pencil beams centered on the Sun, relevant to upcoming surveys such as ARGOS, SEGUE, and GAIA. We create synthetic Galactic maps which we call Pencil Beam Maps (PBMs) of the following observables: line-of-sight velocities, the corresponding velocity dispersion, and the stellar number density that are functions of di...

Longitude-velocity (l−V ) diagrams of H I and CO gas in the inner Milky Way have long been known to be inconsistent with circular motion in an axisymmetric potential. Several lines of evidence suggest that the Galaxy is barred, and gas flow in a barred potential could be consistent with the observed “forbidden” velocities and other features in the data. We compare the H I observations to l−V di...