ABSTRACT The empirical upper limit to red supergiant (RSG) luminosity, known as the Humphreys–Davidson (HD) limit, has been commonly explained being caused by stripping of stellar envelopes metallicity-dependent line-driven winds. As such, theoretical expectation is that HD should be higher at lower metallicity, where weaker mass-loss rates mean initial masses are required for an envelope strip...

the main objective of the research is to study noise pollution in khorram abad, presenting executive strategies to control or reduce it. therefore, 38 stations were selected at the region to measure the noise level round-the-clock, and the samples were also taken for a week in the middle of spring and summer, 2007. the measurements were carried out during the day (7:00 am to 10:00 pm) and night...

Starting with the results of Li et al. in 1992 there is valuable interest in finding long range correlations in DNA sequences since it raises questions about the role of introns and intron-containing genes. In the present paper we studied two sequences that are the human T-cell receptor alpha/delta locus, Gen-Bank name HUMTCRADCV, a noncoding chromosomal fragment of M = 97630 bases (composed of...

introduction: the improvement of technology has increased noise levels in hospital wards to higher than international standard levels (35-45 db). higher noise levels than the maximum level result in patient’s instability and dissatisfaction. moreover, it will have serious negative effects on the staff’s health and the quality of their services. the purpose of this survey is to analyze the level...

1 Department of Dermatology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin, Charité Platz 1, Berlin, D-10117, Germany 2 Department of Dermatology, Monklands Hospital, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, ML6 0JS, UK 3 Department of Dermatology, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio Coppito 2, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy 4 Service de Dermatologie Allergologie, Hôpital Cochin, 89 rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris, France and Univer...

We report here the first full sky component separation and CMB power spectrum estimation using a Wiener filtering technique on simulated data from the upcoming MAP experiment, set to launch in early 2001. The simulations included contributions from the three dominant astrophysical components expected in the five MAP spectral bands, namely CMB radiation, Galactic dust, and synchrotron emission. ...

The visual pigments of cones and rods in three species of mollies, Poecilia mexicana, Poecilia latipinna and their asexual hybrid Poecilia formosa, were examined using microspectrophotometry. In P. mexicana, populations from extreme photic habitats were used: one population originated from a clear water habitat, one from a milky water habitat and another from a completely dark cave. Ultraviolet...

The single machine scheduling problem is considered in which each task has a release dates, a processing time and a due date. The objective is to mimimize the maximum lateness. Preemption is not allowed. Scheduling problem 1|rj |Lmax is a NP-hard problem. We define an IIT (inserted idle time) schedule as a feasible schedule in which a processor is kept idle at a time when it could begin process...

Diaryl-substituted anthracene derivatives containing 3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl) groups, 9,10-diphenyl-2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)anthracene (1), 9,10-di([1,1′-biphenyl]-4-yl)-2(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)anthracene (2), and 9,10-di(naphthalen-2-yl)-2-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl) anthracene (3) were synthesized and characterized. The compounds 1–3 possessed high thermal stability and proper fron...

The Parity symmetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) pattern as seen by WMAP 7 is tested jointly in temperature and polarization at large angular scale. A Quadratic Maximum Likelihood (QML) estimator is applied to the WMAP 7 year low resolution maps to compute all polarized CMB angular power spectra. The analysis is supported by 10000 realistic Monte-Carlo realizations. We confirm the p...