BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The Bangladesh government declared a general holiday beginning on March 26, 2020 aimed to combat coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The aim of this study was to assess the impacts of the general holiday on air quality in Dhaka city area of Bangladesh. METHODS: Hourly PM2.5 (aer...

Building story-based interactive systems are important for entertainment and education. In the storytelling system, a user can change the discourse of the story by talking with the character. The problem is that the scene goals in the realistic situations are complex and often multiple goals make effects to decide the current action. When a user asks something to the character, the character ne...

Recognizing where one action ends and another begins is an automatic and seemingly effortless process that supports understanding of goal-directed action. One characteristic of such action segmentation is that it is hierarchical; it reflects the goals and sub-goals of an actor, which correspond to coarseand fine-grained action units respectively. We report on the success of one method of assess...

The single Ti3C2Tx MXene material is not suitable for electromagnetic (EM) wave absorption due to its high conductivity and impedance mismatch. To address this issue, we ingeniously take advantage of easily oxidized characteristic establish structural defects multiphase engineering in accordion-like TixO2x-1 derived from b...

Ferroelectric (FE) phase transition with a large polarization change benefits to generate electrocaloric (EC) effect for solid-sate and zero-carbon cooling application. However, most EC studies only focus on the single-physical factor associated transition. Herein, we initiated comprehensive discussion in Pb0.99Nb0.02[(Zr0.6Sn0.4)1−x...

Robots are on the verge of becoming ubiquitous. In the form of affordable humanoid toy robots, autonomous cars, vacuum robots or quadrocopters, robots are becoming part of our everyday life. As of today, most of these robots still follow largely hard coded behavior routines. Constraining a robot’s behavior to pre-programmed routines, however, limits its potential in several important ways. For ...

objective: chlorpyrifos (cpf) is a neurotoxic organophosphorus (op) insecticide. its mechanism of action includes oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and inhibition of the acetylcholinesterase enzyme (ache). the aim of the present study is to investigate cpf toxicity in mature and immature cerebellar granule neurons (cgns), as well as its effect on glutamate induced excitotoxicity. materials and ...

the specific leadership style of hassan sabbah and the specific obedience style of followers, because of voluntary blind obedience of followers from hassan sabbah, is one of the most prominent samples for methodologies leadership studies and blind obedience process. in this study, we have used two different approaches towards the analysis of ismailis’s blind obedience from hassan sabbah. in one...

This article elaborates on the need for a sub-field of ‘Strategic Thinking’ as the science exploring the hidden side of strategy emergence. The site of our exploration is the discourse. We will investigate the intersystemic link between self-reflection and communication embedded in discourses among strategists for paradigm deconstruction and reconstruction. The rationale for a sub-field of Stra...