background: this study aimed to investigate and compare the bacterial safety of handmade and commercial ready‑to‑use enteral feeding formulas used in an iranian teaching hospital. methods: in this experimental study, a total number of 70 samples (21 handmade formulas sampled at two sampling times, i.e. the time of preparation and 18 h after preparation, and 28 commercial ready‑to‑use formulas) ...

evaporation, as a major component of the hydrologic cycle, plays a key role in water resources development and management in arid and semi-arid climatic regions. although there are empirical formulas available, their performances are not all satisfactory due to the complicated nature of the evaporation process and the data availability. this paper explores evaporation estimation methods based o...

We study the kernels of the remainder term Rn,s(f) of GaussTurán quadrature formulas ∫ 1 −1 f(t)w(t) dt = n ∑

This paper considers the birth of algebraic proof by looking at the works of Cardano, Viète, Harriot and Pell. The transition from geometric to algebraic proof was mediated by appeals to the Eudoxan theory of proportions in book V of Euclid. The crucial notational innovation was the development of brackets. By the middle of the seventeenth century, geometric proof was unsustainable as the sole ...

We show that, for a finite set A of real numbers, the size of the set A + A A + A = { a + b c + d : a, b, c, d ∈ A, c + d 6= 0 } is bounded from below by ∣∣∣∣A + A A + A ∣∣∣∣ |A|2+1/4 |A/A|1/8 log |A| . This improves a result of Roche-Newton (2016).

The exact order of deterministic, stochastic and average error bounds of multidimensional quadrature formulas for anisotropic Sobolev class W r pðIÞ; Nikolskii class H pðIÞ and their periodic analogue is obtained. It is proved that if p41; then the stochastic and average error bounds are essentially smaller than the deterministic error bounds. Nonlinear methods, adaptive methods, or even method...

We prove that continuous sentences preserved by the ultramean construction (a generalization of the ultraproduct construction) are exactly those sentences which are approximated by linear sentences. Continuous sentences preserved by linear elementary equivalence are exactly those sentences which are approximated in the Riesz space generated by linear sentences. Also, characterizations for linea...