Due to rapid industrialization and urbanization, environmental pollution has become a major concern in developing countries; therefore, the main objective of the current study is to determine heavy metal contents of Pb, and Ni for 42 topsoil samples, collected from 14 green spaces along the 1st and 2nd ring roads in Hamedan City in 2016. For this purpose, after determining some chemical propert...

Petr Lukes1, Jaromir Astl1, Emil Pavlik2, Bela Potuznikova2, Jan Plzak1,3, Martin Chovanec1,3 and Jan Betka1 1Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty Hospital Motol, Prague 2Charles University in Prague, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Immunology and Microbiology, Prague 3Charles University in Prague, 1st ...

We present the draft genome sequence of Legionella massiliensis strain LegA(T), recovered from a cooling tower water sample, using an amoebal coculture procedure. The strain described here is composed of 4,387,007 bp, with a G+C content of 41.19%, and its genome has 3,767 protein-coding genes and 60 predicted RNA genes.

The representation theory of the maximally extended superalgebra with 32 fermionic and 528 bosonic generators is developed in order to investigate non-perturbative properties of the democratic secret theory behind strings and other p-branes. The presence of Lorentz non-singlet central extensions is emphasized, their role for understanding up to 13 hidden dimensions and their physical interpreta...

Athanasios YIOTAKIS,* Alain LECOQ,t Anna NICOLAOU,* Jean LABADIEt and Vincent DIVEt§ TDepartment of Organic Chemistry, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografou, Athens 15771, Greece, tDepartement d'lng6nierie et d'Etudes des Prot6ines, D.S.V., C.E.A. CE-Saclay, 91191 Gif/Yvette, Cedex, France, and tStation de Recherches sur la Viande, INRA de Theix, 631...

In the first section of this paper I argue that the main reason why Daniel Dennett's Intentional Systems Theory (1ST) has been perceived as behaviourist or antirealist is its inability to account for the causal efficacy of the mental. The rest of the paper is devoted to the claim that by emending the theory with a phenomenon called 'empathie resonance' (ER), it can account for the various expla...

Recently there has been considerable interest among PKI vendors and researchers in the concept of password-enabled PKI. Several viable proposals and products have emerged. Fundamentally there are two distinct methods for using passwords with private keys. One method is to use the password to retrieve a private key, while the other uses the password as one component of the private key. We motiva...

A formal specification is presented in the Z language for a simplified version of the Single Transferable Vote form of election. This is a correctness-critical application which is one of a class of related and interesting applications, i.e. electoral models. This specification is based on the form of election defined by the Students’ Representative Council of the University of Cape Town , and ...

In this first year of the project, our work was focused on the problem of identifying and separating specific sound sources in mixtures. The core of our approach is to use prior knowledge about the sounds in the world, encapsulated in some kind of model, to provide the constraints needed to solve the blind separation problem which is otherwise ill-posed. We have looked at using this approach in...

On the morning of July 1st 1916, after five days of intense artillery bombardment, the British Fourth Army under General Sir Henry Rawlinson, with a ration strength of 519,324 men, supported by two divisions of the Third Army, under General Sir Edward Allenby, advanced into what was to be known hereafter as the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within the first 60 minutes of that attack, th...