Intraspecific variation of the gross morphology retractor muscle was studied in 60 specimens Parathyone braziliensis and 17 Thyonidium seguroensis. Specimens were dissected to expose or analyzed by micro-computed tomography. Early expectations that point origin at longitudinal relative midpoint body length age-related split into separate bands could be used as taxonomic characters species not s...

This paper presents the transient model of a new FACTS device, the center node unified power flow controller(C-UPFC), installed at the midpoint of a transmission line. The C-UPFC consists of three voltage source inverters (VSI) with common DC link. One of the converters is connected in parallel at the midpoint of line and the other two converters are connected in series. The simulation results ...

The present study aimed to examine any possible relevance of perfectionism as a personal trait variable, in moderating the effectiveness of meta-cognitive instruction on bottom-up and top-down sub-processes of listening comprehension with a sample of EFL learners in Iranian context. To this end, 94 female EFL learners were selected from among 136 EFL learners at Andisheh Language Institute in M...

We expand the anecdotic report by Johansson that back-and-forth linear harmonic motions appear uniform. Six experiments explore the role of shape and spatial orientation of the trajectory of a point-light target in the perceptual judgment of uniform motion. In Experiment 1, the target oscillated back-and-forth along a circular arc around an invisible pivot. The imaginary segment from the pivot ...

Epilepsy is one of the most stigmatizing medical conditions worldwide. It could be argued that the problem of stigma and discrimination might be different in an Islamic culture. A cross-sectional study of 130 patients with epilepsy was performed using the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness (ISMI) questionnaire that was adapted for epilepsy. The questionnaire contained 29 items on a 4-point s...

As most robust combinatorial min-max and min-max regret problems with discrete uncertainty sets are NP-hard, research into approximation algorithm and approximability bounds has been a fruitful area of recent work. A simple and wellknown approximation algorithm is the midpoint method, where one takes the average over all scenarios, and solves a problem of nominal type. Despite its simplicity, t...