In an effort to elucidate the variation of the electronic structure as a function of oxidation and composition, we investigated an extensive series of dichromium oxide clusters, Cr2On- (n=1-7), using photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). Well-resolved PES spectra were obtained at several photon energies. While low photon energy spectra yielded much better spectral resolution, high photon energy dat...

Tracking moving objects in video sequences is a task that emerges in various fields of study: video analysis, computer vision, biomedical systems etc. In the last decade, special attention has been drawn to problems concerning tracking in real-world environments, where moving objects do not obey any afore-known constraints about their nature and motion or the scenes they are moving in. Apart fr...

Demand-side management (DSM) plays an important role in demand response (DR) system which increases energy efficiency in smart grid. The traditional demand side management focus on slashing peak-load in peak hours, but it does not consider about user’s comfort. In this paper, authors propose an intelligent energy management system and implement with the Intel Quark-based Gateway. To consider ab...

background: the performance and parasitology of semi-intensively managed west african dwarf (wad) lambs were evaluated following exposure to gastrointestinal helminth infected paddock and varied protein-energy feeds. methods: twenty four lambs obtained from the department of animal breeding and genetics and brought to directorate of university farm (dufarm) of federal university of agriculture ...

F OR M A N Y years atmospheric research has been carried out using the balloon as a vehicle. Although animals, mainly humans, flew on the earlier flights, altitudes attained were not sufficient for a determination of any harmful physiological effects other than the classical ones due to lowered temperatures. Indeed, the only major effects noted o n animals sent aloft up to the past few years, w...

As the Internet becomes an important source for health information, user-centric applications have arisen to empower end-users to self manage their illness. Users are able to share personal experiences in ways that have not been possible through the patient-clinician channel. Online health forums are a type of user-centric platform. In these forums it is difficult to evaluate the credibility of...

this study represents effect of four variables in performance of a heat-pump in two cities of tehran and rasht. a computer program has been developed, simulating a certain heat pump acting in different environments with different refrigerants in heating season. the analysis is based on a homogeneous model. effect of different refrigerants, depth of the buried heat exchangers and moisture conten...

Retinal tissue is exceptional because it shows a high level of energy metabolism. Glycogen content represents the only energy reserve in retina, but its levels are limited. Therefore, elucidation of the mechanisms controlling glycogen content in retina will allow us to understand retina response under local energy demands that can occur under normal and pathological conditions. Thus, we studied...

BACKGROUND The energy content of foods is primarily determined by the Atwater factors, which may not be accurate for certain food groups. Nuts are a food group for which substantial evidence suggests that the Atwater factors may be poorly predictive. OBJECTIVE A study was conducted to determine the energy value of almonds in the human diet and to compare the measured energy value with the val...