Although bentazon is widely used as an agricultural herbicide, it is harmful to humans and poses many environmental threats. This study focused on the treatment of wastewater contaminated with bentazon pesticides using membrane technology. In this regard, low-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) was employed as it has already been used in the removal of other micro-pollutants. The effects of process v...

Reverse engineering of electronics systems is performed for various reasons ranging from honest ones such as failure analysis, fault isolation, trustworthiness verification, obsolescence management, etc. to dishonest ones such as cloning, counterfeiting, identification of vulnerabilities, development of attacks, etc. Regardless of the goal, it is imperative that the research community understan...

because of its kinetic nature and computational advantages, the lattice boltzmann method (lbm) has been well accepted as a useful tool to simulate micro-scale flows. the slip boundary model plays a crucial role in the accuracy of solutions for micro-channel flow simulations. the most used slip boundary condition is the maxwell slip model. the results of maxwell slip model are affected by the ac...

objective: common variable immunodeficiency (cvid) is one of the most frequent cases of primary immunodeficiency. it is likely that this heterogeneous disease is caused by several distinct genetic disorders. the activation-induced cytidine deaminase (aid) enzyme is involved in class switching, somatic hypermutation (shm) and processes associated with gene conversion in the germinal center. in o...

The mechanical behaviour of pre-crystallized and crystallized zirconia-reinforced lithium silicate glass ceramics (ZLS) using micro-indentation techniques is reported. Vickers micro-indentations were conducted on these materials at the load 0.245 N–9.8 N 4.9 to determine effect hardness fracture toughness, respectively. increased with by 78.2% (ANOVA, p < 0.05) 163% ZLS, respectively, indicatin...

Using the tip-based continuous indentation process, arrays of three-dimensional pyramidal cavities have been successfully machined on a copper template and the structures were successfully transferred to a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface using a reverse nanoimprinting approach. The structured PDMS surface is coated with a thin Au film, and the final substrate is demonstrated as a surface-en...

BACKGROUND Calcific aortic stenosis is the third most common cardiovascular disease in the United States. We hypothesized that the mechanism for aortic valve calcification is similar to skeletal bone formation and that this process is mediated by an osteoblast-like phenotype. METHODS AND RESULTS To test this hypothesis, we examined calcified human aortic valves replaced at surgery (n=22) and ...

This study explored the association between different types of brief disagreements and subsequent levels of expressed psychological uncertainty, a fundamental cognitive aspect of complex problem solving. We examined 11 hours (11 861 utterances) of conversations in expert science teams, sampled across the first 90 days of the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Utterances were independently coded fo...

This paper addresses the problem regarding the parameter exploration of Multi-Agent Based Simulation for social systems. We focus on the principles of Inverse Simulation and Genetics-Based Validation. In conventional artificial society models, the simulation is executed straightforwardly: Initially, many micro-level parameters and initial conditions are set, then, the simulation steps are execu...

BACKGROUND The addition of folic acid to all enriched cereal-grain foods, mandated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was initiated in January 1998. Although this program was designed such that typical folate intakes would be increased by approximately 100 micro g/d and that the risk of intakes > 1000 micro g/d (the FDA's safe upper limit of daily intake) would be minimal, its actual ef...