B software vendors offering, via the cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS) versions of traditionally on-premises application software, security risks associated with usage become more diversified. This can greatly increase the value associated with the software. In an environment where negative security externalities are present and users make complex consumption and patching decisions, we constr...

Wheat is one of the most important food staff in consumption pattern of each country. More than 50 percent of energy is provided by bread in the developing countries. The aim of this study was measuring wheat losses during pre-harvest and harvest stages in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province of Iran in year 2013. Wheat losses at harvest stages were measured to wheat varieties in 2 levels of Omid...

Closed-form expressions that lower and upper bound the penalty of hybrid selection/maximal ratio combining relative to maximal ratio combining (MRC) for -ary phase-shift keying (MPSK) modulations are proved. The bounds offer simple-to-evaluate explicit expressions, and are typically within 0.6 dB for hybrid systems with diversity order up to eight that use at least two branches, yet are indepen...

Reactive power has been proposed as a method of voltage control for distribution networks, providing a means of increasing the amount of energy transferred from distributed generators to the bulk transmission network. The value of reactive power can therefore be measured according to an increase in transferred energy, where the transferred energy is defined as the total generated energy, less t...

RESULTS: The majority of flaps were for lower extremity trauma wounds (74), followed by upper extremity trauma wounds (8), scalp tumor defects (4), and one torso wound. There were 7 flap losses, but of these, 4 were due to noncompliance with postoperative immobilization/elevation orders; excluding these 4 failures for which the NPD was clearly not a factor, the flap success rate was 96.4%. Skin...

RESULTS: The majority of flaps were for lower extremity trauma wounds (74), followed by upper extremity trauma wounds (8), scalp tumor defects (4), and one torso wound. There were 7 flap losses, but of these, 4 were due to noncompliance with postoperative immobilization/elevation orders; excluding these 4 failures for which the NPD was clearly not a factor, the flap success rate was 96.4%. Skin...

The effect of hydrolyzed potato protein (HPP), a natural antioxidant, on emulsion quality was investigated using a factorial design with two Fat (15%, 30%) and two HPP (0%, 2.5%) levels, with three replications. The colour of the raw emulsions as well as cooking losses, textural properties and TBARS of cooked frankfurters were measured. Increasing the Fat proportion significantly (P<0.05) incre...

The first expected symptoms of a climate change-generated biodiversity crisis are range contractions and extinctions at lower elevational and latitudinal limits to species distributions. However, whilst range expansions at high elevations and latitudes have been widely documented, there has been surprisingly little evidence for contractions at warm margins. We show that lower elevational limits...

The different intensities of common culinary techniques (boiling, baking and microwaving) produce several changes that reduce the nutritional and physical properties of potatoes. This study evaluated the effect of those cooking methods on the quality of commercial potato tubers (Agata, Kennebec, Caesar and Red Pontiac). The higher weight losses were obtained for baking, but the potato softening...

Approximately 2,500 adults (ages 18-97) completed multiple study-test trials of a list of unrelated words. Consistent with past research, females outperformed males in the recall task. To assess whether sex differences in recall performance were attributable to differences in acquiring and/or retaining information, the data were analyzed at the individual item level to distinguish gains (i.e., ...