background: high consumption of nonalcoholic beverages is one of the causes of dental erosion. annual consumption of beverages in iran is 48 lpcy (lit per capita per year) that is equal to 144 bottles per capita in year and is relatively a high rate. taking this into consideration, the present study was planned to determine the ph and fluoride content of beverages consumed in kerman, south east...

PAGE 46 j foresight j VOL. 9 NO. 2 2007, pp. 46-59, Q Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1463-6689 DOI 10.1108/14636680710737759 David Wright is a Partner in Trilateral Research & Consulting, London, UK. Serge Gutwirth is a Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium. Michael Friedewald is senior researcher and consultant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and In...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in esp and egp subdisciplines of applied linguistics. eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to thompson and tribble’s (2...

Media Arts have acquired informal expertise in the design of spaces and events shared by sentient systems and people. Because of this, Media Arts should be of interest to investigators as they begin to seriously consider social interactions as an integral part of the Ambient Intelligence research agenda.

This paper addresses the design and implementation of new examination systems for distance learning in two different scenarios: the first one consists of the implementation of a traditional examination in the same way as it is done in many distance learning studies having all the students moving to the classroom for the final e-learning process: the examination; and the second one is a new desi...

the nitrogen (n) nutrition, crop yield, and responses of wheat to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (amf) were tested in an experimental field under free-air ozone concentration [o3] enrichment (face) conditions. the experiment included three treatments: ambient [o3] (ambient), elevated [o3] (face, targeted at ambient [o3]×1.5), and elevated [o3] inoculated with an amf consortium consisting of sever...

Abstract All nuclear explosions are banned by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. In context of treaty a verification regime was put into place to detect, locate, and characterize at any time, anyone everywhere on Earth. The International Monitoring System, which plays key role in regime, set up Preparatory Commission Treaty Organization. Out several different monitoring techniques appli...