introduction: birth weight is one of the important sanitary indices in evaluating the prenatal care all over the world. the purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between the bio-environmental characteristics of mothers with infant’s birth weight. materials and methods: in corrolation study, first, all newborn babies in hospitals and maternity centers khuzestan between farwa...

In this paper we describe system architectures for robust MLLR based environmental adaptation of continuous speech recognition systems. Inspired by an existing broadcast news transcription system [1] we refined the identification of acoustic scenarios by using a combined GMM/HMM method. Thus environmental adaptation regarding arbitrary acoustic scenarios beyond speaker changes becomes possible....

This paper speci"es the structure of a manufacturing strategy analysis (MSA) to manufacturing system design (MSD) interfacing model. In particular, it addresses the link between manufacturing strategic initiatives and the requirements of manufacturing information system (MIS), and proposes a structured approach to help a company identify the key MIS requirements that are needed to e!ectively su...

Recent morphologic and biochemical studies of macrophage lysosomes (1, 2) have shown that pinocytic vesicles are converted into secondary lysosomes in the centrosphere region of the cytoplasm by fusion with Golgi vesicles and/or preexisting secondary lysosomes. Environmenta l molecules which increase the rate of pinocytic activity result in both increased numbers of lysosomes and increased leve...

Recent morphologic and biochemical studies of macrophage lysosomes (1, 2) have shown that pinocytic vesicles are converted into secondary lysosomes in the centrosphere region of the cytoplasm by fusion with Golgi vesicles and/or preexisting secondary lysosomes. Environmenta l molecules which increase the rate of pinocytic activity result in both increased numbers of lysosomes and increased leve...

Leather industry, one of the polluting industries because of generation of huge amount of liquid and solid wastes, also emits obnoxious smell because of degradation of proteinous material of skin and generation of gases such as NH3, H2S and CO2. Solid wastes are raw trimmings, fleshings, chrome shavings, buffing dusts and keratin wastes. Accumulation of these wastes lead to sludge problem and c...

We examine the effect of air quality regulation on productivit y in some of the most heavily regulated manufacturing plants in the United States, the oil reŽ neries of the Los Angeles (South Coast) Air Basin. We use direct measures of local air pollution regulation to estimate their effects on abatement investment. ReŽ neries not subject to these regulations are used as a comparison group. We s...