Agricultural waste biomass generated from agricultural production and food processing industry are abundant, such as durian  peel, mango peel, corn straw, rice bran, corn shell, potato peel and many more. Due to low commercial value, these wastes are disposed in landfill, which if not managed properly may cause environmental problems. Currently, environmental laws and regulations pertaining to ...

Childhood trauma has been suggested to be involved in the susceptibility to bipolar disorder. However, case-control studies are lacking, and the preferential implication and the dose-effect of different trauma subtypes remain poorly investigated. Two hundred six bipolar patients and 94 controls completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein et al., 1994). The CTQ total score was h...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between childhood trauma and psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients after controlling for the possible confounding factors, such as depression and dissociative symptoms. Ninety-eight schizophrenic inpatients participated. Childhood trauma was examined using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaires (CTQ), which consists of physical abuse (PA...

BACKGROUND Animal and human studies have suggested that hippocampal subfields are differentially vulnerable to stress, but subfield volume has not been investigated in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Based on the putative role of stressful life events as vulnerability factors for BPD, we hypothesized that patients with BPD would exhibit reduced volumes for the stress-sensit...

achieving optimal production cycle time for improving manufacturing processes is one of the common problems in production planning. during recent years, different approaches have been developed for solving this problem, but most of them assume that mean quality characteristic is constant over production run length and sets it on customer’s target value. however, the process mean may drift from ...

Software quality can be expressed through various attributes, many of which depend on the architecture by nature. The foundation of any software systems is the architecture. This means evaluating software architecture early in the development process, to mitigate risks and emphasizing on the architecture definition and specification. Therefore an architecture-focused development process, with a...

Using large-scale data collection and analysis methods to develop educational models, study the relationship between variables, provide effective support for reform will be inevitable trend of modern information technology teaching in future. At present, under high level higher education system reform, curriculum evaluation is an important tool evaluate quality classroom basis test effectivenes...

Data mining implies "digging through tons of data" to uncover implicit information. Software defect is an essential characteristic of software development process, offering much information about software quality assurance. Based on the information supplied by defects, it can help a software team with capability of software quality assurance. In order to dig through lots of defects to uncover i...

multivariate process capability indices (mpci) show how well a manufacturing process can meet specifica-tion limits when quality characteristics enclose a relative correlation. process capability is an important and commonly used metric for assessing and improving the quality of a production process. when quality charac-teristics of a product are correlated then an attractive comes close to mpc...