Introduction: Allergic rhinitis and asthma can be related to occupation. The present study aimed to investigate the correlation between asthma or allergic rhinitis and employment in the palm tree gardens of Jahrom, Iran.   Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study including 50 palm tree garden workers and a control group of 50 office employees. Data collection included demographic...

The binary choice polytope appeared in the investigation of the binary choice problem formulated by Guilbaud (1953) and Block and Marschak (1960). It is nowadays known to be the same as the linear ordering polytope from operations research (Grötschel, Jünger and Reinelt, 1985). The central problem is to find facet-defining linear inequalities for the polytope. Fence inequalities constitute a pr...

Many model search strategies involve trading off model fit with model complexity in a penalized goodness of fit measure. Asymptotic properties for these types of procedures in settings like linear regression and ARMA time series have been studied, but these do not naturally extend to nonstandard situations such as mixed effects models, where simple definition of the sample size is not meaningfu...

Enhanced tidal streams close to coastal headlands appear to present ideal locations for the deployment of tidal energy devices. In this paper, the power potential of tidal streams near an idealized coastal headland with a sloping seabed is investigated using a near-field approximation to represent a tidal fence, i.e. a row of tidal devices, in a two-dimensional depth-averaged numerical model. S...

My cat is learning to catch squirrels in the back garden. It’s a painfully slow process. He seems to be trying every available technique, improving step by step. He’s tried sitting near the house and charging down the garden when a squirrel appeared, only for the squirrel to spot him and dash off. He’s tried assaulting the squirrel when it came down the tree, only to find out that squirrels cli...

In this paper, we propose and present the design and initial development of the Fault awareness Enabled Computing Environment (FENCE) system for high end computing. FENCE is a comprehensive fault management system in the sense that it consists of both post and runtime analysis, integrates both proactive and reactive mechanisms, and combines both application level and system level fault manageme...

A new code for the design of the guard fence performances was implemented and issued in April 1999 in Japan. The prescribed performances of the new code are: i) prevention of derail, ii) safety of occupant, iii) leading vehicles to road, and iv) prevention of spreading out the broken pieces. In the new code, the full-scale experiment for checking the performances of guard fences is required in ...