one of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. in this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (m/m/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

in this paper, a viscous flow simulation is presented using the lattice boltzmann equation (lbe). a finite volume approach is adapted to discretize the lbe on a cell-centered, arbitrary shaped, rectangular tessellation. the formulation includes upwind scheme and high order descretization schemes for the flux term and collision operator respectively. a consistent open and solid boundary treatmen...

abstract bottom rack intake is one of the most appropriate structures for diverting water in steep rivers. the problems of corrosion, deformity and clogging of the bottom racks in long term, inspires a new system of bottom intake in which a filled trench of porous media is replaced by the bottom racks. diversion of a specified amount of discharge through the porous media when void space in the ...

recently, e. m'{a}v{c}ajov'{a} and m. v{s}koviera proved that every bidirected eulerian graph which admits a nowhere zero flow, admits a nowhere zero $4$-flow. this result shows the validity of bouchet's nowhere zero conjecture for eulerian bidirected graphs. in this paper we prove the same theorem in a different terminology and with a short and simple proof. more precisely, we p...

for better management of asthma it is essential that patients adjust their treatment according to the medical plan developed by the health care professionals. to achieve this goal, patients should assess the severity of their disease regularly. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of regular measurement of peak expiratory flow and patient education on self management of asthma....

anthracnose caused by colletotrichum gloeosporioides s. l. is one of the most important diseases of citrus in northern iran. to study the genetic structure of c. gloeosporioides s. l. from citrusspp., infected samples were collected from three citrus cultivating regions of northern iran, during the summer of 2009. fifty one monoconidial isolates were used as the objective of rep- and box-pcr fi...

conclusions results suggest that these methods cannot be interchanged, and vvi showed significantly lower lv peak twist, peak twisting rate and peak untwisting rate. however, when lv twist and lv twisting rates were normalized to lv length, values were comparable for both imaging techniques. results twist degree was significantly lower in the vvi group than in the tdi group (p = 0.008, r = 0.56...