In past days many researchers have been worked on the stabilized Black Cotton (BC) soil to determine the Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS) values in a conventional ways in laboratory thorough experiments, which is time consuming and requires number of persons. So we the authors of this study attempted to determine these values using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). ANN which are simple mat...

BACKGROUND Thailand has achieved universal health coverage since 2002 through the implementation of the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) for 47 million of the population who were neither private sector employees nor government employees. A well performing UCS should achieve health equity goals in terms of health service use and distribution of government subsidy on health. With these goals in mi...

The mechanisms by which the excess genetic material of chromosome 21 results in the dysmorphologic features of Down syndrome (DS) are largely unknown. It has been found that the extracellular matrix of nuchal skin of DS fetuses exhibits an higher content of hyaluronan (HA) compared to that of euploid fetuses. Since HA plays a central role in many morphogenetic processes during embryogenesis, an...

Abstract A number of destructive and non-destructive tests were conducted on rock samples collected from various zones in northern Iraq. So far, for Iraqi rocks, few studies have correlated Schmidt hammer rebound ( R ) with both unconfined compressive strength (UCS) Brazilian tensile (BTS). In this study, the objective is to develop a relationship between surface hardness (rebound number) BTS d...

The OSA Uniform Color Scales were derived using a unique geometry for the physical samples. Regular rhombohedral packing allows each sample to be compared to twelve other equally distant samples. While this sampling scheme provides an efficient geometry for sample comparison and allows multiple cleavage planes, it obscures the underlying perceptual attributes. However, it is relatively straight...

The current CIE colour rendering index (CRI) has been widely used to test the quality of light sources over 30 years. However, this method is outdated and problematic, especially for evaluating white light emitting diode (LED) sources. A psychophysical experiment was conducted to evaluate the quality of three D65 simulators. The results were also compared with the CRI and the other method, know...

the periodic trimming of the long hairs growing at the distal end of the tail -switch trimming- is humane alternative of tail docking. the purpose of this study was to determine the influence of switch trimming on somatic cell count (scc), california mastitis test (cmt) and udder cleanliness of lactating cows in a free-stall dairy farm. in the present study, 219 healthy, pregnant holstein cows ...

BACKGROUND Cervical disorders in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have been an important problem for a long time. Although the recent progression of the treatment strategies for RA might change the progression of atlantoaxial vertical subluxation (VS) in RA patients, to reveal the risk factors for VS progression should be important at present. Osteoporosis (OP) and RA share the same risk fact...

1. Some connections from the afferents to the magnocellular red nucleus (RNm), like the corticorubral synapses, have plastic properties that are thought to contribute to long-term changes such as functional readaptation, motor learning, and the establishment of conditioned responses. Because previous studies have focused on corticorubral synaptic reorganization after these events, we attempted ...