The academic sector has been faced with strong monopolization tendencies occurring in the academic publisher market in recent years. A countermeasure from the demand-side has been the formation of procurement consortia by academic libraries which are intended to reduce costs and simultaneously optimizing the availability of academic journals in order to sufficiently serve their customers (i.e. ...

Studies of political economy in recent years have placed emphasis on the operating characteristics of political and economic institutions. The premise of this work is that constitutional features of the political economy provide a structure of institutional incentives inducing equilibrium behavior and practices by optimizing agents. At both the theoretical and empirical levels there are compari...

The last six years witnessed important advances in applying iris based biometric systems for military and civil security purposes. The fundamental aspect of this progress is the development of biometric algorithms able to produce high confidence personal identification without human interaction. The majority of such biometric algorithms use iris video as a better representation of special prope...

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nowadays the researches have indicated the fact that using synthetic antioxidants as food additives in edible oils can have adverse effects on human health. so preparing antioxidation resources for reduction of oxidation stress effects is important. the aim of this project was, representing a natural antioxidant source with frap test. the present study optimized the ultrasound assisted extracti...

restrictions on the use of synthetic antioxidant such as butylated  hydroxyanisole  (bha) and butylated  hydroxytoluene (bht) are being imposed  because of  their carcinogecity. in this investigation  optimization  of phenolic extraction  process  frome  methanolic (80%)  extract (v/v) of  elaegnus  angustifolia  through  response  surface methodology  by fulin cio- calteu is  performrd  for op...

Echinoderms take many forms of symmetry. Pentameral symmetry is the major form and the other forms are derived from it. However, the ancestors of echinoderms, which originated from Cambrian period, were believed to be bilaterians. Echinoderm larvae are bilateral during their early development. During embryonic development of starfish and sea urchins, the position and the developmental sequence ...

Many psychiatrists believe that there are special personality traits characteristic of the epileptic. Various writers have referred to these as mental peculiarities, emotional instability, impulsiveness, moral anergia, and incapacity for productive occupation involving initiative and consecutive activity (Spratling, 1904), eccentricity, supersensitiveness, emotional poverty, and rigidity (Clark...