Effects of binary mixtures of ionic/nonionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate/2-heptanol or 1-decanol) and nonionic/nonionic surfactants (2-heptnol/1-decanol) on drop/interface coalescence of water drops in a continuous n-heptane phase were examined. The drop size reduced appreciably and the multi-step coalescence was suppressed finally as the concentration of each of the constituting components</em...

objective: assessment of social skills is a necessary requirement to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive and behavioral interventions. this paper reports the cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the farsi version of the social skills rating system-secondary students form (ssrs-ss) questionnaire (gresham and elliot, 1990), in a normative sample of secondary school s...

Polarization insensitive wavelength conversion of a 40 Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) data signal is demonstrated using four-wave mixing (FWM) in a silicon nanowire circuit. Polarization independence is achieved using a diversity circuit based on polarization rotators and splitters, which is fabricated by a simple process on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) p...

In this study, we use least square support vector machines (LSSVM) to construct a credit scoring model and introduce conjoint analysis technique to analyze the relative importance of each input feature for making the decision in the model. A test based on a real-world credit dataset shows that the proposed model has good classification accuracy and can help explain the decision. Hence, it is an...