Endosulfan, a broad-spectrum non-systemic organochlorine (OC) pesticide is extensively used to control a wide variety of pests in agriculture, horticulture and public health programmes. Biochemical changes occurring in the metabolically active tissues of gills (GL), hepatopancreas (HP) and muscle (MU) of the penaeid shrimp, Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius) on exposure to two sublethal doses (4...

commodity groups. The study may be accomplished over a period of time, until all commodity groups have been considered. The study should address functional requirements, activity levels of commodity groups and individual items, and potential impacts on local suppliers and small and disadvantaged businesses. An industrial relations analysis on existing labor relations and union contracts may als...

Obesity is common in adolescence and associated with medical complications. As maladaptive emotional processing is assumed to influence obesity, this research investigated emotional openness (EO), a general model of emotional processing, in normal-weight versus overweight adolescents, with consideration of gender differences, in order to determine whether a particular EO profile is characterist...

The present research work aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the new methodology of Design of Dynamic Experiments (DoDE) in optimizing an important pharmaceutical reaction. An easily developed response surface model (RSM) is used instead of a hard to develop knowledge-driven process model. The DoDE approach allows the experimenter to introduce dynamic factors in the design, which during t...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently implemented a series of strategic initiatives to address long-term radiological surveillance needs at former U.S. test sites in the Marshall Islands. The plan is to engage local atoll communities in developing shared responsibilities for implementing radiation protection programs for resettled and resettling populations. As part of this new initi...

In planar OLED structures, a signifi cant fraction of the internal light emission is trapped in guided modes. This trapped light is a major limitation on the external quantum effi ciency, and a number of studies have integrated photonic microstructures into OLEDs to improve the device effi ciency by extracting trapped light such as the substrate modes, [ 3 ] the waveguide modes [ 4 ] and the su...

The aim of this review is to give insight into the reproduction potential of the Boer goat doe. Assessment of the reproduction traits in the Boer goat doe demonstrates a mean body weight at puberty of between 30.6 and 27.5kg, depending on the dietary energy level. Kids weaned during the natural breeding season (April/May) exhibit oestrus or puberty earlier than those weaned outside the natural ...

In presented paper a design model is developed which is used to find an optimal design space in order to improve precision and accuracy of reversed 3D models. Significant parameters and their mutual effects in scanning process are recognized with the help of Design of Experiments (DOE) principles, and in second step recognized significant parameters are also optimized using the RSM (Response Su...

To solve problems that exist in optimal design such as falling into local optimal solution easily and low efficiency in multi-objective optimization, a new approach based on design of experiments (DOE) and gradient optimization (GO) was proposed. The new optimization method is called DPG (DOE Plus GO) which used DOE for preliminary analysis of the function model, and took the optimal values obt...

We introduce a design of experiments (DOE) methodology to the optimization of a-SiO2 structures using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. This approach produces defect-free systems in good agreement with experimental results of radial distribution functions and angular distribution functions. Application of DOE techniques allows systematic development of optimal MD simulation sequenc...