the main objective of this study is to examine the impacts of two demand side policies, namely; expanding food industries and externally increase in households’ demand for agricultural goods ,on the growth of products in agricultural subsector. to this end, a social accounting matrix (sam) is constructed based on the latest iranian input- output table released in 2001. then, production multipli...

introduction: mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) is an endodontic material with different clinical applications e.g. root-end filling, pulp capping and perforation repair.  it has been reported to possess antimicrobial and antifungal activities. the aim of this study was to examine the effect of white mta on formalin-induced hyperalgesia in a rat with inflammatory pain. materials and methods: inf...

The advances of high-throughput sequencing offer an unprecedented opportunity to study genetic variation. This is challenged by the difficulty of resolving variant calls in repetitive DNA regions. We present a Bayesian method to estimate repeat-length variation from paired-end sequence read data. The method makes variant calls based on deviations in sequence fragment sizes, allowing the analysi...

Detecting and explaining the nature of attacks in distributed web services is often difficult – determining the nature of suspicious activity requires following the trail of an attacker through a chain of heterogeneous software components including load balancers, proxies, worker nodes, and storage services. Unfortunately, existing forensic solutions cannot provide the necessary context to link...

We describe Mendosus, a SAN-based fault-injection test-bed that supports the emulation of LAN-based systems. Our goal is to provide a test-bed for service designers to systematically assess the impact of end-to-end design decisions on the availability and reliability of network services in the presence of realistic fault scenarios. As such, our current implementation is just a first step toward...

This paper develops a classification of mobile interactions based on contextual information relevant to the mobile device user in journeys. Context-aware systems can be used to reduce the stress involved, support users in their activities and increase utility of travel time. But context is often portrayed as real, stable and structured, which can limit the value of applications as they lack dyn...