The Gap Analysis Program (GAP) is a nationwide effort to find areas of suitable habitat in the US, which if protected from habitat degradation, may help to preserve the native animal and plant biodiversity. In recent years, the GAP protocols used to analyze habitat data have become more scale and species dependent. This research describes the creation of a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS)...

In this paper, we report a performance gap between a schedule with small makespan on the task scheduling model and the corresponding parallel program on distributed memory parallel machines. The main reason of the gap is the software overhead in the interprocessor communication. Therefore, speedup ratios of schedules on the model do not approximate well to those of parallel programs on the mach...

UNLABELLED The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among minority and low-income populations is well documented. This study aimed to assess the impact of patient activation and shared decision-making (SDM) on medication use through the Office-Guidelines Applied to Practice (Office-GAP) intervention in Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers (FQHCs). Patients (243) with diabetes and CHD partic...

Software conformance testing is usually carried out by running the tested program over a set of input patterns and comparing the results with those predicted by its specifications. To date, there has been no cost-efficient way to build a test set capable of exposing all program errors for a typical industrial application. In program coverage, the huge program input is partitioned into classes, ...

background: this in vitro study investigated the marginal fit of two porcelain laminate veneers to help the selection of more accurate veneers in discolored teeth. materials and methods: thirty impressions of metal master die created from the prepared labial surface of an acrylic maxillary central incisor were made and poured with type iv stone. the dies were distributed into test groups (n = 1...

The Gender Action Plan (GAP) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as the 5-year strategy for gender mainstreaming in BiH, was adopted by the Council of Ministers of BiH on the 14th of September, 2006. The main goal of the BiH GAP is “to define strategies and realise program objectives to reach equality of women and men in Bosnia and Herzegovina” with the following joint strategic goals in all field...

temporomandibular joint ankylosis causes limitation in mouth opening and establishes severe deformity and asymmetry in patient’s face, especially in children. surgery is the only treatment. this study was conducted to compare the effect of two surgical approaches, gap arthropasty and interpositional gap arthroplasty, on rate of maximum interincisal opening in temporomandibular joint ankylosis. ...

This paper presents a new design to reduce torque ripple in Switched Reluctance Motors (SRMs). Although SRM possesses many advantages in terms of motor structure, it suffers from large torque ripple that causes problems such as vibration and acoustic noise. The paper describes new rotor and stator pole shapes with a non-uniform air gap profile to reduce torque ripple while retaining its average...