Crude oil fouling of the equipment surfaces is a troublesome issue which leads to operating difficulties, economic penalties, increased environmental impacts, and health and safety hazards in petroleum industry. With a rough estimation, a minimum cost of equal to 4 million barrels of oil/year is required to be invested to offset the costs of crude oil fouling in Pre-heat Trains of Iranian oil r...

Anxious individuals demonstrate threat-related attention biases both when threat stimuli are presented within conscious awareness and when presented below awareness threshold. Nevertheless, attention bias modification (ABM) research has rarely utilized sub-awareness protocols in an attempt to modify attention patterns and reduce anxiety. Exploring the potential of subliminal ABM is of interest,...

This study examined the effect of attention engagement to compound auditory-visual stimuli on the modification of the startle blink reflex in infants. Infants at 8, 14, 20, or 26 weeks of age were presented with interesting audiovisual stimuli. After stimulus onset, at delays defined by heart rate changes known to be associated with sustained attention or attention disengagement, blink reflexes...

ajor depression is a commonly occurring, serious, and recurrent disorder that often starts at a M young age. According to the World Health Organization, depression is ranked among the leading causes of disability worldwide. In 2013, an estimated 2.6 million adolescents 12 to 17 years old in the United States had at least 1 major depressive episode in the past year, representing 10.7% of the pop...

This work presents innovative method of dynamic modification of program and language for purpose of achievement of new functionality during program run-time. The work further presents adaptive execution environment, which allows reaching of modification of language and program during program execution and presents experimental verification of presented environment. Extensible programming langua...

reaching an electricity system which is both economically efficient and environmentally friendly is motivating countries to design and execute different types of tou demand response programs. but there are certain deficiencies which prevent these programs to effectively modify the load shape. smart grid as a means could help the electricity system to reach the highest demand side management ...