the increase in the number of producers and manufacturers leads to various methods of attracting customers. one of the appropriate ways to attract customers is to provide them with post-sale support. to guarantee the quality of a product is one of the services according to which the seller is committed to change the problematic product. to analyze the legal aspects of guarantee makes it necessa...

Discriminating against arsenate: Determination of the structure of periplasmic phosphate binding proteins at very high resolution provides the basis for understanding the high discrimination of bacteria against arsenate. The results complete our insight into earlier erroneous conclusions on the ability of certain bacteria to use arsenate instead of phosphate.

OBJECTIVE To investigate processing of human faces identity and of emotional expressions in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD). BACKGROUND Mechanisms responsible for discriminating facial identity may be dissociated from those involved in discriminating facial expressions. Patients with prosopagnosia often have preserved capacities for processing emotional facial expressions and occasiona...

sediment-related environmental problems pose a serious threat to sustainable land management in many developing countries, including iran. information regarding sediment sources represents a key requirement from the management perspective since identification of sediment sources is a precursor to the design of effective sediment management and control strategies. the fingerprinting approach has...

conclusions nx-dcp correlated positively with fibrosis stage and could discriminate well between hcv-related patients with or without significant fibrosis. moreover, nx-dcp had a similar predictive ability to the abovementioned models, and thereby could be a new noninvasive prediction tool for fibrosis. results increase in serum nx-dcp was significantly related to increase in fibrosis stage (p ...

The insurance industry is built on risk classification, grouping insureds into homogeneous classes. Through actions such as underwriting, pricing, and so forth, it differentiates, or discriminates, among insureds. Actuaries have responsibility for pricing transfers are intimately involved in other aspects of company a keen interest whether not discrimination appropriate from both societal viewp...

abstract. a practical common weight scalarizing function methodology with an improved discriminating power for technology selection is introduced. the proposed scalarizing function methodology enables the evaluation of the relative efficiency of decision-making units (dmus) with respect to multiple outputs and a single exact input with common weights. its robustness and discriminating power are...