Background and Objective: Lowering serum glucose and lipid levels in diabetic patients by using natural materials is of great importance. In this study, the effect of oral consumption of Fumaria Parviflora Lamwas was assessed on serum glucose and lipid levels in streptozocin diabetic rats. Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, 32 male Wistar rats were divided into four groups of co...

Dependency is a concept whose importance for learning is strongly suggested by – amongst other things – the wide range of applications that spreadsheets have found in education. Given the prominent role that Logo has played in research into computer support for constructionist learning, there is a natural motivation for studying the relationship between spreadsheets and Logo programming. The te...

We have used Fortran 90 to implement lattice QCD. We have designed a set of machine independent modules that define fields (gauge, fermions, scalars, etc...) and overloaded operators for all possible operations between fields, matrices and numbers. With these modules it is very simple to write high-level efficient programs for QCD simulations. To increase performances our modules also implement...

Carbohydrate partitioning is closely coupled with plant growth and architecture, and therefore constitutes an important aspect of the functional-structural modelling of plants. L-PEACH is an L-systembased tree simulation model that combines supply/demand concepts of carbon partitioning with a developmental model of tree architecture. The model is expressed in terms of modules that represent pla...

introduction: among the environmental pollutions, noise is very important for its physiological  and psychological effects on human. traffic noise is one of the most important pollutants and the  hospitals  are  one  of  the  critical  places  regarding  this  type  of  noise.  for  these  reasons,  in  the  summer  of  1382,  the  traffic  noise  of  mashhad  main  streets  around  the  hospit...

GX 339–4 is an unusual black hole candidate in that it is a persistent source, being detected by X-ray telescopes most of the time, but it also has nova-like flaring states. In 1996 we performed radio, optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray observations of GX 339–4 when it was in a hard state (= soft X-ray low state). Here we present a brief summary of some of the results. At this time, neither the ASM ...

In this work, we present a class of fast first order finite volume solvers, named as PVM (Polynomial Viscosity Matrix), for balance laws or, more generally, for nonconservative hyperbolic systems. They are defined in terms of viscosity matrices computed by a suitable polynomial evaluation of a Roe matrix. These methods have the advantage that they only need some information about the eigenvalue...

In this Paper the potential of multi-temporal PolSARdata for soil surface roughness estimation is investigated. The study utilizes microwave backscatter collected from the Demmin test-site in the North-East Germany during the whole agri-phenological cycle in 2006 using quad-pol L-Band SLC E-SAR data. For ground truthing soil surface roughness were measured using photogrammetric imaging techniqu...

A baseline design for the NLC positron source based on the existing SLC positron system is described. The proposed NLC source consists of a dedicated S-band electron accelerator, a conventional positron production and capture system utilizing a high-Z target and an adiabatic matching device, and an L-band positron linac. The invariant transverse acceptance of the capture system is 0.06 m⋅rad, e...

This paper presents two-stage unsupervised terrain classification of fully polarimetric SAR data using Freeman and Durden decomposition based on three simple scattering mechanisms: surface, volume and double bounce (first step), and textural features (uncorrelated uniformity, contrast, inverse moment and entropy) obtained from grey level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) (second step). Textural fea...