A novel heat-sealing performance is achieved by polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites reinforced by ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and montmorillonite (MMT). Appropriate nanocomposite design leads to hermetic seals with a general peelable/easy-open character across the broadest possible sealing temperature range. Observations of the fracture seal surfaces by infrared spectroscopy and electron microsco...

We describe a new survey for unbound hypervelocity stars (HVSs), stars traveling with such extreme velocities that dynamical ejection from a massive black hole (MBH) is their most likely origin. We investigate the possible contribution of unbound runaway stars, and show that the physical properties of binaries constrain low mass runaways to bound velocities. We measure radial velocities for HVS...

novel citric acid modified starch-carboxy methyl cellulose (cmc) -montmorillonite (mmt) bionanocomposite films were prepared by casting method and the effect of mmt on the structural and physical properties of the starch-cmc biocomposites was studied. x-ray diffraction test showed thatstrong polar interactions between the hydroxyl groups present in the starch and cmc chains and in the silicate ...

In this paper, we present multicast traffic engineering and we compare it to unicast traffic engineering. We study the advantages given by the integration of multicasting and MPLS. We present current proposals for multicast traffic engineering and using MPLS network. We describe our approach, the MPLS multicast tree (MMT) protocol. In order to reduce forwarding states and enhance scalability, M...

We assess the influence of co-occurring psychiatric disorders on retention in 189 opioid dependent patients in a methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) and determine the incidence of psychiatric co-morbidity during an 18-month follow-up period. About 68.5 % were retained in the MMT. Neither co-occurring mental disorders (chi-square = 0.303, df = 1, p = 0.622) nor methadone doses [85 (88.9) vs. 7...

Another main plank in their argument is that MMT provides a better account of syllogistic reasoning than the probability heuristics model (PHM) [5]. However, the meta-analysis [6] they report comparing PHM with MMT used accuracy as a measure but did not allow PHM to predict no valid conclusion responses. This move contradicts PHM in which no valid conclusion responses are predicted by one of it...

Abstract The paper provides a critical analysis of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Facing the current macroeconomic problems supply shocks caused by Corona pandemic and war in Ukraine its consequences on inflation, authors ask whether MMT could seriously influence policymaking. Based brief historical roots MMT, show substantial economic with this theory. Especially non-consideration inflation iss...

background: drug abuse is a major health problem in many countries. noticing the different patterns of drug abuse in different areas, we evaluated the epidemiology of drug abuse and related factors in fars province, southern iran. materials and methods: in a one-year cross-sectional study, from march 21st, 2009 to 2010, all subjects referring to addiction treatment clinic of shiraz university w...