introduction: the mini nutritional assessment (mna) has been developed to assess malnutrition in elderly  and to filter those who might get benefited from early diagnosis and treatment. the objective of the present study was to examine the nutritional profile of old age hospitalized individuals through the use of the mna in king khalid hospital at hail city of saudi arabia. methods: demographic...

10 Abstract. Research regarding seedling quality issues has been performed for decades and focused 11 primarily on conifer species, which comprise the greatest proportion of nursery production 12 worldwide. Demand for hardwood seedlings, particularly for conservation purposes, has increased 13 steadily in recent years, emphasizing the need for seedling quality assessment protocols specific to 1...

iron deficiency anemia is one of the nutritional problems of the low income, undernourished populations of the world. in iran, many rural and low socioeconomic urban groups suffer from iron deficiency anemia because of a low iron intake and the low level of public health. to overcome and to prevent iron deficiency, a program was suggested to enrich the bread with iron, calcium and some of the b...

In 1978, a group of researchers led by Dave Parnas developed a tabular nota-tion for specifying software requirements called SCR (Software Cost Reduction)and used the notation to specify the requirements of a mission-critical program,the Operational Flight Program for the A-7 aircraft. Since then, the require-ments of many critical programs, including control software for nuclea...

Geometric modeling is of signi cance to a wide variety of elds such as graphics computer aided design CAD visualization medicine and virtual environment This paper presents a novel modeling methodology physics based geometric modeling paradigm which can combine geometric objects with physical and material properties thus allowing intuitive interaction with geometric objects by means of force Co...

– We derive and solve a differential equation satisfied by the probability distribution of the work done on a single biomolecule in a mechanical unzipping experiment. The unzipping is described as a thermally activated escape process in an energy landscape. The Jarzynski equality is recovered as an identity, independent of the pulling protocol. This approach allows one to evaluate easily, by nu...

– Some new Bell inequalities for consecutive measurements are deduced under joint realism assumption, using some perfect correlation property. No locality condition is needed. When the measured system is a macroscopic system, joint realism assumption substitutes the non-invasive measurability hypothesis advantageously, provided that the system satisfies the perfect correlation property. The new...

Despite advanced sensor systems to avoid collisions, mobile robots can still present safety hazards for human beings when employed in populated areas. This work suggests a method to reduce this risk with the help of information gathered through sensors embedded into a smart environment. By using models to estimate the state of the environment, the path planning entities of mobile robots can be ...