in iran the mainstreaming tool for integrating environmental concerns into energy sector is an energy-environment review (eer-iran). this paper comprises: (i) an analysis of the current situation with regards to energy production and consumption; (ii) an evaluation of the growth prospects with regard to energy production and consumption; (iii) the identification of environmental issues induced ...

the effects of sodium chloride (nacl) salinity (control; canal water with 0.4 ds m-1), 2.5 dsm-1, 5.0 ds m-1, 7.5 ds m-1 and 10.0 ds m-1, respectively) developed after 6 weeks of pruning (beginning of study) on plant growth, flowering and quality of three cut rose (rosa hybrida l.) cultivars viz. ‘kardinal’, ‘angelique’ and ‘gold medal’ were studied to achieve better management, quality product...

to calculate partial and total productivity of production factors in broiler farms in yazd province, 72 manufacturing units were selected based on simple random sampling method and their information and statistics were collected for one production period in the second half of 2013. to measure productivity, the cobb-douglas production function was estimated using classic and fuzzy regression met...

Summery-EPQ Psychoticism (P) is thought to be fundamental to religiosity (Francis, 1992a), while Neuroticism (N), Extraversion (E) and Lie dimensions (L) are not consistently found to be associated with religious beliefs and behaviours. Among 6463 Anglican, Other Protestant and Catholic Australian twins (aged 17-88yr), we found that men and women who attended church regularly had low P and low ...

This paper deals with an integrated model for the joint determination of both economic production quantity (EPQ) and level of preventive maintenance (PM) for an imperfect production process. This process has a general deterioration distribution with increasing hazard rate. The effect of PM activities on the deterioration pattern of the process is modeled using the imperfect maintenance concept....

In a production system with random yield, it may be more cost effective to release lots multiple times towards fulfilling a customer order. Such a decision, called the multiple lot-sizing problem, has been investigated in various contexts. This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for solving a new multiple lot-sizing problem defined in the context of a two-stage production system with non-rig...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of supplements containing different energy sources in relation to mineral supplementation of steers grazing guineagrass (Panicum maximum cv Tanzânia) pasture, during the dry season. The experimental design was a randomized block with three treatments and four replications. The treatments consisted of a mineral supplementation and two other su...

Adaptive production systems are defined and used to illustrate adaptive techniques in production system construction. A learning paradigm is described within the framework of adaptive production systems, and is applied to a simple rote learning task, a nonsense syllable association and discrimination task, and a serial pattern acquisition task. It is shown that with the appropriate production b...

BACKGROUND/AIM Exhaustive exercise is a strong stress factor and can impact cytokine production in the brain. Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is produced in greater amounts than any other cytokine in response to exercise, and its effects are closely related to both exercise duration and intensity. In this study, we measured the differences between the amount of IL-6 reactivity of the hippocampus after an ...

The orphan receptor T1/ST2, a member of the IL-1R family, is preferentially expressed on the surface of murine Th2 cells. In this study, we analyzed the kinetics and function of T1/ST2 expression on Th2 cells in vitro. Whereas naive CD4(+) cells did not express T1/ST2, most CD4(+) cells became T1/ST2(+) upon repeated antigenic stimulation under Th2-polarizing conditions. Flow cytometric analyse...