ntroduction: electrocautery device is one of the most widely used electronic devices in operating rooms despite its advantages in operations, production risks such as the halo of smoke above the operating position. the smoke with hazardous substances,cause to transmitting hiv, hpv and hepatitis and complications such as respiratory distress, nausea and vomiting, eye irritation, headache, and so...

since it was first diagnosed in 1914 in marrakesh, schistosomiasis has been a public health problem in morocco for decades. a national control program launched in 1982 has led to a considerable reduction in the incidence and morbidity associated with the disease. consequently, the program has shifted from disease control to an elimination process launched in 1994. this process aimed to eliminat...

teams are defined as high performing task groups whose members are actively interdependent and share common performance objectives. this definition suggests that only those groups who perform at high levels due to their collective efforts must be considered as teams. in this paper, a model has been presented for de-termining the effects of information technology in the output of teamwork with y...

Team ARAIBO (Advanced Robotics with Artificial Intelligence for Ball Operation) has taken part in RoboCup since 1999. Even though we could not get the top three positions in Four-legged Robot League, we have proposed several novel issues such as jumping heading, uniform Monte Carlo localization, dynamic programming, memory squeeze by strategy maps and so forth. We always tried to introduce theo...

Article history: Received 17 September 2009 Revised 19 January 2010 Accepted 25 January 2010 Available online 4 February 2010

The World Health Organization reports that 2 million people die each year from the effects of air pollution, twice the number of fatalities as from automobile accidents [1]. Direct causes of air pollution related deaths include aggravated asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung and heart diseases, and respiratory allergies. While civic agencies address large-scale environmental health problems from...

Unlike the polar vortices observed in the Earth, Mars and Titan atmospheres, the observed Venus polar vortex is warmer than the midlatitudes at cloud-top levels (∼65 km). This warm polar vortex is zonally surrounded by a cold latitude band located at ∼60° latitude, which is a unique feature called 'cold collar' in the Venus atmosphere. Although these structures have been observed in numerous pr...