Nanoparticles (NPs) are a heterogeneous group of materials that have various applications, and their risk assessment is an essential condition. This study aimed to review the applicable risk assessment methods in occupational and environmental exposures to NPs. A literature search for articles published since 2005 in Web of Knowledge, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, and Google Scholar, using ap...

In this paper, we present a probabilistic admission control algorithm over switched Ethernet to support soft real-time control applications with heterogeneous periodic flows. Our approach is purely end host based, and it enables real-time application-to-application QoS management over switched Ethernet without sophisticated packet scheduling or resource reservation mechanisms in Ethernet switch...

Background: Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) comprises a group of genetically determined skin fragility disorders, which are characterized by blistering of the skin and mucosa, in response to little or no apparent trauma. These disorders represent heterogeneous phenotypes and are associated with various complications ranging from localized skin fragility to neonatal death. Nevertheless, the term "Epi...

When multiple heterogeneous databases show different values for the same data item, its actual value is not known with certainty. To develop corporate data warehouses, which consolidate data from multiple heterogeneous data sources, has become an important issue for designing modern business information systems. Probabilistic relational databases have extended from the relational database model...

Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) considers documents as atomic units. In this paper, we show the retrieval of the components of the documents which satisfy best the information need. This finer granularity eases the browsing of the retrieval result. The approach supports multimedia and networked IR since multimedia documents are composed of other objects and networks combine several colle...