In the present study, antifouling booster biocides, irgarol 1051 and diuron, were measured in seawater and sediments in ports and marinas of Bushehr, Iran. To the best of our knowledge, in the Persian Gulf there is no any record about analysis of these compounds in coastal waters, however there are considerable amount of information about the concentration of antifouling booster biocides in Eur...

Head and neck cancer squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a term given to epithelial malignancies that arise in the oral cavity, paranasal sinuses, nasal cavity, pharynx, and larynx (Argiris et al., 2008; Rudolph et al., 2011). Almost 90% of HNSCC originating from the mucosal lining of these regions (Dobrossy, 2005). HNSCC is strongly associated with certain environmental and lifestyle risk facto...

A cyclic consecutive-k-out-of-n: G system consists of n components lying on a cycle. Those components are exchangeable but may have different working probabilities. The system works if and only if there are k consecutive components at work. What is the optimal assignment of components for maximizing the reliability of the system? Does the optimal assignment depend on the working probability val...

amir seyyed fathollah shirazi, a physician, historian and politician of indian mughal empire court, was one of the scholars of shiraz. initially, he served as a teacher at mansurieh school in shiraz. he worked for imamgholi mirza, the brother of king ismaeil ii, from safavid dynasty. after killing imamgholi mirza, by the order of the king, he went to india following the invitation of the muslim...

We present signature schemes whose security relies on computational assumptions relating to isogeny graphs of supersingular elliptic curves. We give two schemes, both of them based on interactive identification protocols. The first identification protocol is due to De Feo, Jao and Plût. The second one, and the main contribution of the paper, makes novel use of an algorithm of Kohel, Lauter, Pet...

to serum TNF-α level? Amir Jalali: Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy and Molecular and Cellular Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: [email protected] Mohammad H. Pipelzadeh (corresponding author): Dept. of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email: mhpipelz...

this study is about philosophical view of soltan ali khorasani gonabadi, the writer of dastur al-alag manuscript, dating back to 1524 ad, on physicians. the original manuscript, kept at shiraz university of medical sciences museum, was studied thoroughly. in the preface of the book, soltan ali khorasani gonabadi explained his holistic view on medicine and considered ethical and philosophical ba...

Automatic Guided Vehicles or AGVs are increasingly being used in manufacturing plants for transportation tasks. Optimal scheduling of AGVs is a difficult problem. A learning AGV is very attractive in a manufacturing plant since it is hard to manually optimize the scheduling algorithm to each new situation. In this paper we compare four reinforcement learning methods for scheduling AGVs. Q-learn...

the following study was conducted at the research station of horticultural sciences (university of tehran, karaj) to investigate the effect of different irrigation levels and fruit site on the stalk upon the traits of: sink-source relationship, yield, and fruit quality in two iranian melon cultivars. the statistical design was a split split-plot of  three replications. treatments consisted of a...