background: social desirability may affect different aspects of people’s quality of life. one of the impressive dimensions of quality of life is mental health. the prevalence of minor psychiatric disorders (mpd) among health care workers is higher than other health workers. this article aims at evaluating the relationship between social desirability and mpd among nurses in southern iran. method...

wax precipitate is one of the most serious issues the oil industry is currently facing, since it can cause some troubles such as increasing of the pressure losses in pipe which subsequently increases the required power for pumpage. to remove this problem, prediction of wax disappearance temperature (wdt) seems necessary. in this study, the pressure influence on the wax disappearance temperature...

This paper presents a simplified design procedure (SDP) for performance-based of low-rise new steel MRF buildings with nonlinear viscous dampers. The SDP uses an effective stiffness and equivalent damping multi degree-of-freedom (MDOF) model the building, which is established using linearized system (damping devices associated bracing). integrated process to achieve target performance objective...

The authors review the recent literature on multiple personality disorder (MPD), the most severe and chronic of the dissociative disorders, in relation to court cases of competence to stand trial, the insanity defense, and research on malingerers feigning MPD. Issues relevant in the assessment of competency and insanity are described. Features characteristic of MPD, including amnesia and altera...

pemoline in rats were investigated.At 20min after intravenous administration of 3 mg/kg dose of pemoline as a loading dose,constant infusion at a rate of 139ƒÊg/h of the drug was carried out to give steady-state plasma level.In intravenous administration of 1mg/kg dose of RA during the constant infusion of pemoline,the plasma concentration of pemoline before and after the administration of RA d...

The AP-1 transcription factor JunB is a transcriptional regulator of myelopoiesis. Inactivation of JunB in postnatal mice results in a myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) resembling early human chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Here, we show that JunB regulates the numbers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC). JunB overexpression decreases the frequency of long-term HSC (LT-HSC), while JunB inacti...

In this work, a multi-objective optimization on novel insulated roof with solar water heating system at low material cost has been carried out through Taguchi based grey relational analysis technique. The novel roofs have concrete, insulating polyurethane, and a channel of water in a metallic pipe tunneling the chromium block. Chromium block is used to conduct more heat to raise the water to re...

In the civil engineering field, fluid viscous dampers, used extensively in military applications, have found commercial applications on buildings and bridges subjected to seismic and/or wind storm inputs. Because fluid damping technology was proven thoroughly reliable and robust, implementation on footbridges to suppress undesirable pedestrian-induced vibrations is taking place. . This presenta...

This thesis discusses the feasibility of structural magnetic induction dampers for dampening mechanical vibrations in buildings subjected to strong dynamic excitations. The concept of energy harvesting in various fields of engineering is first examined. Then it is applied to the design of magnetic induction dampers in buildings. Various implementations of these dampers are proposed and the rela...

Parvalbumin-positive basket cells (PV BCs) of the CA1 hippocampus are active participants in theta (5-12 Hz) and gamma (20-80 Hz) oscillations in vivo. When PV BCs are driven at these frequencies in vitro, inhibitory postsynaptic currents (IPSCs) in synaptically connected CA1 pyramidal cells exhibit paired-pulse depression (PPD) and multiple-pulse depression (MPD). Moreover, PV BCs express pres...