Among variety of meta-heuristic population-based search algorithms, particle swarm optimization (PSO) with adaptive inertia weight (AIW) has been considered as a versatile optimization tool, which incorporates the experience of the whole swarm into the movement of particles. Although the exploitation ability of this algorithm is great, it cannot comprehensively explore the search space and may ...

The Elek culture plate precipitin test is routinely used for the detection of exotoxin from toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Recently, the World Health Organization standardized this test to ensure accuracy, reliability, and reproducibility. In this study, we further modified the standard Elek test by using the antitoxin-in-membrane (AIM) and antitoxin-in-well (AIW) approaches....

© American Academy of Pain Medicine 1526-2375/04/$15.00/333 333–334 Pain, typically of musculoskeletal or unexplained origin, was one of the most common symptoms reported by military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf prior, during, and following the 1991 Gulf War [1]. Despite the brief duration of armed conflict and the limited number of casualties, almost 15% of US Persian Gulf War (PGW) ...

Pain, typically of musculoskeletal or unexplained origin, was one of the most common symptoms reported by military personnel deployed to the Persian Gulf prior, during, and following the 1991 Gulf War [1]. Despite the brief duration of armed conflict and the limited number of casualties, almost 15% of US Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans have pursued treatment for Gulf War-related problems [2]. H...

Portland cement (PC) is a common material used in civil infrastructure engineering. Cement production emits roughly 2.2 billion tons of CO2 per year, contributing 8% global emissions 2016. This contributes to almost half the calcination process, and together with thermal combustion, clinker generation could be responsible for 90% sector’s emissions. One effective technique dealing these industr...

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that exploit living microbes for electricity generation coupled to organics degradation. MFCs are expected to be applied to energy-saving wastewater treatment (WWT) as alternatives to activated-sludge reactors (ASRs). Although extensive laboratory studies have been performed to develop technologies for WWT-MFCs, limited information is available for compar...

Distant luminous quasars provide important information on the growth of the first supermassive black holes, their host galaxies and the epoch of reionization. The identification of quasars is usually performed through detection of their Lyman-α line redshifted to 0.9 microns at z > 6.5. Here, we report the discovery of a very Lyman-α luminous quasar, PSO J006.1240 + 39.2219 at redshift z = 6.61...

[1] Strontium and neodymium radiogenic isotope ratios in early to middle Eocene fossil fish debris (ichthyoliths) from Lomonosov Ridge (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 302) help constrain water mass compositions in the Eocene Arctic Ocean between !55 and !45 Ma. The inferred paleodepositional setting was a shallow, offshore marine to marginal marine environment with limited connect...

يا هچروم يدنب هشوخ متيروگلا ياراد پ ا ار يددعتم ياهرتم هلمج زا ،نتشادرب هب طوبرم ياهرتماراپ نتشاذگ اه هداد ديد عاعش ، يم هك دشاب ريثات و دنراد متيروگلا ييارگمه و دركلمع رد يدايز اطخ و شيامزآ تروص هب لاومعم نييعت يم رگ د دن . شور هلاقم نيا رد ي رب ينتبم CLA-PSO 1 ي هتسسگ لدم كي هك PSO دشاب يم يارب قيبطت كيتاموتا پ ياهرتمارا يا هچروم يدنب هشوخ يم داهنشيپ ددرگ . روظنم هب گلا ساسا رب هك د...

Many agro-industrial companies grow amaranth for the subsequent production of oil, flour, cereals, flakes, and bran. After grain is extracted, waste in form inflorescences remains, which can be used to obtain useful new products. This work investigated use pyrolysis recycle inflorescence wastes (AIW). Thermochemical conversion experiments an inert medium were carried out a laboratory setup at 5...