aims: venomous snake bites are public health problems in different parts of the world. the most specific mainstay in the treatment of envenomation is anti-venom. to treat the envenomation, it is very important to identify the offending species. this study was designed to determine the penetrating pattern of fangs and teeth of some viper snakes.  materials & methods: this descriptive study was p...

Kinetics on molecular excited states is a challenging subject in the field of theoretical chemistry. This thesis pays attention to theoretical studies on kinetics of photo-induced processes, including photo-chemical reactions, radiative and non-radiative transitions (intersystem crossing and internal conversion) in molecular and bio-related systems. Oneor multidimensional potential energy surfa...

The use of tunnel concentration profile data to determine the ratio of NO2/NOx directly emitted from vehicles X. Yao, N. T. Lau, C. K. Chan, and M. Fang Institute for the Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China Department of Chemical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China Recei...

We prove that the following three conditions together imply the concavity of the sequence Pn iˆ0 aibi= Pn iˆ0 ai : concavity of fbng, log-concavity of fang and nonincreasing of f…bn ÿ bnÿ1†=…anÿ1=an ÿ anÿ2=anÿ1†g. As a consequence we get necessary and sufficient conditions for the concavity of the sequences fSnÿ1…x†=Sn…x†g and fSn…x†=Sn…x†g for any nonnegative x, where Sn…x† is the nth partial ...

I consider price dispersion of very similar insurance plans in an environment where adverse selection is a potential concern. This paper aims to empirically disentangle different sources of the price dispersion and investigate how adverse selection affects a market equilibrium and welfare in such an environment. I develop an equilibrium model of a consumer choice of a differentiated insurance p...

Measuring Responsiveness in the Therapeutic Relationship: A Patient Perspective Harry T. Reis , Margaret S. Clark , Denis J. Pereira Gray , Fen-Fang Tsai , Judith B. Brown , Moira Stewart & Lynn G. Underwood To cite this article: Harry T. Reis , Margaret S. Clark , Denis J. Pereira Gray , Fen-Fang Tsai , Judith B. Brown , Moira Stewart & Lynn G. Underwood (2008) Measuring Responsiveness in the ...

It is shown that, for any spatial frame L (i.e., L is a complete lattice generated by the set of all prime elements), both the specialization L-preorder of L-topological spaces introduced by Lai and Zhang [Fuzzy preorder and fuzzy topology, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 157 (2006) 1865–1885] and that of L-fuzzifying topological spaces introduced by Fang and Qiu [Fuzzy orders and fuzzifying topologies,...

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.06.014 ⇑ Corresponding author at: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States. Tel.: +1 (734) 764 9542. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J.S. Brandt), [email protected] (E.M. Wood), [email protected] (A.M. Pidgeon), lianxian.han@gma...

MSc THESIS APPLIED MATHEMATICS " Numerical treatment of stochastic control problems by Fourier-cosine series expansions, the dike height problem " I would like to acknowledge the advice and guidance of my supervisor Prof.dr.ir. C.W. Oosterlee. I also thank the members of my graduate committee and the members of the department at the CWI. Special thanks go to Bowen Zhang and Fang Fang, for helpi...