this study investigated effective parameters in the leadership and management among commanders of the army ground force, hierarchy of each criterion and ultimately proposal of a desirable leadership and management model from the respective commanders and senior managers’ perspectives. characterized as an applied and field study, the research employed the participation of the 100 commanders and ...

heavy metal contamination around the national iranian lead and zinc company (nilz) in zanjan province was evaluated in this paper. collected data were used to appraise the degree of soil contamination and also the source of pollution in the study area based on geoaccumulation index (igeo), and enrichment factor (ef). the levels of fe, zn, cd and pb in the samples exceed those reported in litera...

Cellular functions, ranging from focal adhesion (FA) dynamics and cell motility to tumour growth, are orchestrated by signals cells receive from outside via cell surface receptors. Signalling is fine-tuned by the exo-endocytic cycling of these receptors to control cellular responses such as FA dynamics, which determine cell motility. How precisely endocytosis regulates turnover of the various c...

Existing research suggests that there is an overlap between binge eating disorder (BED) and the construct of 'food addiction' (FA). The objective of this study was to determine the overlapping features of BED and FA through a comparison of the individual scales of commonly used tools including the Binge Eating Scale (BES) and the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) in a sample of Australian adults...

This paper describes the use of thermodynamic modeling to predict reaction products and properties cementitious pastes containing fly ash. A pore partitioning model is used estimate gel capillary volumes. The paste performance predicted in terms its porosity, compressive strength, formation factor, deicing salt damage susceptibility. proposed quantify refinement that occurs when ash used. Compa...

Linear data analysis methods such as factor analysis (FA), independent component analysis (ICA) and blind source separation (BSS) as well as state-space models such as the Kalman filter model are used in a wide range of applications. In many of these, linearity is just a convenient approximation while the underlying effect is nonlinear. It would therefore be more appropriate to use nonlinear me...

Hepatic insulin resistance in the leptin-receptor defective Zucker fa/fa rat is associated with impaired glycogen synthesis and increased activity of phosphorylase-a. We investigated the coupling between phosphorylase-a and glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes from fa/fa rats by modulating the concentration of phosphorylase-a. Treatment of hepatocytes from fa/fa rats and Fa/? controls with a selec...