37 The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual functions in people, such as pupil con38 striction and circadian photoentrainment. What contribution melanopsin makes to conscious 39 visual perception is less studied. We devised a stimulus that targeted melanopsin separately 40 from the cones using pulsed (3 s) spectral modulations around a photopic background. Pupil41 lometry confirmed...

The goal of diagnosis is to compute good re­ pair strategies in response to anomalous sys­ tem behavior. In a decision theoretic frame­ work, a good repair strategy has low expected cost. In a general formulation of the problem, the computation of the optimal (lowest ex­ pected cost) repair strategy for a system with multiple faults is intractable. In this paper, we consider an interesting and ...

An expectation value calculation for ground state energy of anyon gas with the Hamiltonian including of interaction of spins of particles with magnetic field induced by anyon vector potential, i.e. statistical magnetic field, in the framework of variational approach, which we developed recently, exhibits exact cancellation of terms connected with fractional statistics. This leads to bozonizatio...

Skyrmions are whirl-like topological spin objects with high potential for future magnetic data storage. A fundamental question that is relevant to both basic research and application is whether ferroelectric (FE) polarization can be associated with skyrmions' magnetic texture and whether these objects can be manipulated by electric fields. We study the interplay between magnetism and electric p...

Chronic restriction of caloric intake inhibits the formation of various types of tumors in the mouse. This inhibition is evidenced both by a decrease in the proportion of mice developing tumors and by a delay in the time at which the tumors appear (4-6, 8, 11, 15, 16). The magnitude of the inhibi tory effect is dependent on the degree of caloric re striction (1, 10, 14), the type of tumor (11),...

this research presents a new application of the cloud theory-based simulated annealing algorithm to solve mixed model assembly line sequencing problems where line stoppage cost is expected to be optimized. this objective is highly significant in mixed model assembly line sequencing problems based on just-in-time production system. moreover, this type of problem is np-hard and solving this probl...

Abstract Magnetostriction effect of a spherical sample magnetoactive elastomer (MAE) is analyzed. In comparison with the preceding study, consideration done on more realistic basis: taking into account saturation MAE magnetization in contrast to former model where was supposed be linear whatever field strength. This thorough investigation has revealed that striction-induced elongation effect, d...

background: the aim of this study was dna extraction from protosco-lecses of echinococcus granulosus and identification of these strains in west- azerbaijan province, north western iran. methods: thirty one livestock isolates from sheep and cattle were collected from abattoirs of the province. to investigate the genetic variation of the isolates, after dna extraction by glass beads-phenol chlor...

one of the major complications in cancer chemotherapy is the development of resistance, and cisplatin, as one of the important medicines in treatment regimens of different cancers is not excluded. one of the most described cellular defense mechanisms involved in resistance is glutathione (gsh) and in this study, the effects of cisplatin on the total intracellular gsh level (gshi) in some sensit...