this study estimated the magnitude of sexual dimorphism in a relict sheep from catalunya (ne spain), called fardasca,using geometric morphometric techniques. for these analyses, a total of 18 skull specimens (2 adult males and 16 females) were studied. our results suggest that the breed is not cranially dimorphic, so sex determination using landmarks described here as criteria is likely to yiel...

The objective of this study was to obtain the deep subsurface structure a saline-evaporitic formation affected by an anticlinal structure, defining position and thickness for its future exploitation (potassium salts). To improve knowledge, geophysical methods can be applied establish detailed information on geological structures at depth. This work analyzes results time domain electromagnetic (...

this paper attempts to investigate the capability of the numerical finite element method for the removal of the regional effects from the observed gravity data from the dehnow anticline. from a geological point of view, the dehnow area is a part of the fars sedimentary basin south-east iran. the khamy formation and bangestan group are the oldest geological structures in the area that have outcr...

In animal cells, nine aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are associated with the three auxiliary proteins p18, p38, and p43 to form a stable and conserved large multi-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex (MARS), whose molecular mass has been proposed to be between 1.0 and 1.5 MDa. The complex acts as a molecular hub for coordinating protein synthesis and diverse regulatory signal pathways. Electron micros...

magnesium oxide nanoclusters have attracted much attention due to their potential applications to catalysis and novel optoelectronic materials. in the present study, we have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of the stoichiometric magnesium oxide nanoclusters (mgo)n  for n = 2-20. although the binding energy increases with the size of the cluster, it  reaches the asymptotic limit of...

Structural optimization of offshore wind turbine structures has become an important issue in the past years due to the noticeable developments in offshore wind industry. However, considering the offshore wind turbines’ size and environment, this task is outstandingly difficult. To overcome this barrier, in this paper, a metaheuristic algorithm called Enhanced Colliding Bodies Optimization...

Purpose– Analysis of non-prismatic beams has been focused of attention due to wide use in complex structures such as aircraft, turbine blades and space vehicles. Apart from aesthetic aspect, optimization of strength and weight is achieved in use of this type of structures. The purpose of this paper is to present new shape functions, namely 3-node Basic Displacement Functions (BDFs) for derivati...