the dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trend for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in the present market cause some challenges to the general managers of container terminals such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and the need to use new m...

proton exchange membrane fuel cells (pemfcs) with a dead-ended anode and cathode can obtain high hydrogen and oxygen utilization by a comparatively simple system. nevertheless, the accumulation of the water in the anode and cathode channels might cause a local fuel starvation degrading the performance and durability of pemfcs. in this study, a brand new design for a polymer electrolyte membrane...

Utilization is one of the main managerial factors that is applied for construction process analysis well. It directly affects the project duration and construction costs. Therefore, a utilization study in tunneling projects is essential. In this work, the utilization of an earth pressure balance Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in Tabriz urban railway project was studied using the Monte Carlo simula...

abstract background: according to professionalization in nursing profession, the nursing researches expanded dramatically and rapidly in a very short period. research results showed improvement in quality of provided care by using research findings. but there is still a gap between nursing research and practice, which led scientists to explore the barriers and facilitators of research utilizati...

Objective: This study aims to estimate and compare the time-course change in blood glucose levels by blood cells in serum, and plasma with or without preservatives, which may reflect the rate of glucose utilization by blood cells. Method: This laboratory-based cross-sectional study was carried out using a blood specimen of 28 participants among which 14 were diagnosed with diabetes and 14 were...

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a widely used distance measurement in time series clustering. DTW invariant to phase perturbations but has quadratic complexity. An effective acceleration method must reduce the utilization ratio during clustering; for example, TADPole uses both upper and lower bounds prune off large of expensive calculations. To further ratio, we find that linear-complexity L1-nor...