In the Colored Bin Packing problem a sequence of items of sizes up to 1 arrives to be packed into bins of unit capacity. Each item has one of c ≥ 2 colors and an additional constraint is that we cannot pack two items of the same color next to each other in the same bin. The objective is to minimize the number of bins. In the important special case when all items have size zero, we characterize ...

among the traditions concerning the signs of wisdom, there is a tradition related from imam al-ṣādiq (a.s.) introducing the person wearing a long beard, the signet of his ring, and his nickname, as indications of his lack of wisdom. while examining the sanad and text of this tradition, the article seeks to find out the real source of this saying and the various possibilities about the source an...

PURPOSE The goals of this study are to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of levetiracetam (LEV) as add-on therapy in children with refractory epilepsies and to determine the value of LEV blood level monitoring in this population. METHODS Sixty-nine children (39 males and 30 females) treated with LEV between 2006 and 2007 were selected. Their medical files were reviewed for LEV efficacy a...

Myoglobin (Mb) is an intracellular protein found in red skeletal muscle and heart. It binds oxygen reversibly and enhances oxygen consumption, especially under conditions of low oxygen availability (Bailey et al. 1990; Wittenberg and Wittenberg, 1989). A variety of biochemical and biophysical experiments reveals that Mb functions by facilitating the diffusion of oxygen from the extracellular sp...

backgrounds: subclinical ketosis can cause greater economic loss due to a lack of clinical symptoms. objectives: the present study was aimed to design a chemical method for measuring serum ketone bodies in the affected subclinical cows. methods: acetoacetate concentrations were measured using a nitroprusside reaction and b-hydroxy butyric acid (bhba) which was oxidized to acetoacetate using nan...

The aim of this study was to assess the frequency of gastrointestinal side effects (GSE) and hepatotoxicity in patients treated with rifampicin for an osteoarticular infection and to determine if there is an association between rifampicin plasma concentrations and side effects. Rifampicin plasma concentrations were prospectively measured before (trough concentration, C(0)) and 2 +/- 0.5 h (peak...

Access control has traditionally assumed a single, monolithic authorization policy, generally expressed as an access matrix. We argue that this assumption does not fit ecommerce applications, which are governed by a potentially large set of independently stated, evolving contracts. In order to support this growing class of applications we propose an enforcement mechanism which uses certified-co...