Climate changes, failure to complete the natural cycle of water in the city due to unsustainableconstruction of the urban environments and increase of impervious surfaces, lack of nutrition of undergroundaquifer in the cities, unsustainable management of stormwater and the floods due to them in the periods of rainfallcaused to provide an approach that is called water sensitive urban design. Thi...

in this paper, the effects of input temperature and compression ratio on the net output work and efficiency of the air standard cycles, i.e. atkinson cycle, diesel cycle and otto cycle are analyzed. we assumed that the compression and power processes are adiabatic and reversible and any convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer to cylinder wall during the heat rejection process may be ...

BACKGROUND Computer-assisted analyses were used to examine ultrasound image attributes of human dominant ovarian follicles that developed during natural and oral contraceptive (OC) cycles. We hypothesized that image attributes of natural cycle follicles would quantitatively differ from those in OC cycles and that OC cycle follicles would possess image attributes indicative of atresia. METHODS...

This paper is an attempt to provide a general framework that helps develop a natural language generation (NLG) project from the conception of the need to the retirement of the product. This framework consists of a set of systematic activities that can be carried out in order to build or modify an NLG system. Assuming that a NLG system is software, we take IEEE Std. 1074-1997 –a standard for dev...

The mean age at natural menopause and its determinants among Shirazi women (southern Iran) was calculated.  The data were obtained from a population- based cross-sectional study carried out in the year 2000.  Interviews were carried out and observations made on 948 women who had incurred natural menopause. They were randomly chosen using postal zones housing sample framework of Shiraz.Mean±SD a...

A case is reported of successful in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and pregnancy in a natural cycle after four previously failed attempts with stimulated cycles. The patient began treatment at the age of 36 years and underwent four stimulated IVF cycles, each time with three embryos of good quality transferred. In one attempt, three cryopreserved embryos were transferred in a natural cycle. The pati...