Poultry industry is an important production system due to providing remarkable portion of the human food and protein needs. Considering the necessity of environmental protection, the amount of environmental impacts of a turkey production unit in Iran was determined using life cycle assessment method. The required information were collected through questionnaires and interviews with farm owners....

BACKGROUND For many headache types, occipital peripheral nerve stimulation (ONS) provides significant relief of chronic, frequent, and severe headaches. Though rarely reported, ONS may cause painful muscle spasms that make stimulator use impractical. The classic description of the technique advocates placement of the leads transversely at the level of the arch of C1 or at C1-2. At that level, t...

In this study, we have examined the potential of second-generation antisense chimeric 2'-O-(2-methoxy)ethyl/DNA phosphorothioate oligonucleotides (ONs) to affect cell growth through non-antisense mechanisms. Evaluation of a series of ONs demonstrated that only a small number were cytotoxic at concentrations close to those required for antisense activity. Toxicity of the ONs appeared to be seque...

The ONS is a central lookup service used in the EPCglobal network for retrieving the location of information about a specific EPC. This centralized solution lacks scalability and fault tolerance. We present the design principles of a distributed solution for ONS lookup service. In distributed systems, the problem of providing a scalable location service requires a dynamic mechanism to associate...

Antisense oligonucleotides (ONs) have great therapeutic potential for conditions in which aberrant protein production results in pathology. This method of reducing the expression of a target gene is both precise and sequence-specific. Although there are many applications for antisense ONs as central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics, systemically administered antisense ONs must be capable of cr...

Results and methodology on the effectiveness of entertainment click-ons in edutainment software are reported in this paper. They used a modified version of "Counting on Frank" software, which made a recording in a log file at each mouse-click, keypress, or screen change. The log files provided detailed information for them to calculate statistics of the time spent on click-ons, the findability ...

A health economic analysis was performed to assess the economic impact on the national health care budget of using oral nutritional supplements (ONS), being a food for special medical purposes also known as medical nutrition, for the treatment of disease related malnutrition (DRM) in the community in the Netherlands. An economic model was developed to calculate the budget impact of using ONS in...