in this paper, we are going to investigate the growth of the iranian maritime transport with a focus mainly on the north - south transit corridor, review of dry ports in order to support the iranian container terminals at the south ports in order to increase the volume of container storages at the terminals. for the purpose of assessing the outcome of port operational management, the balanced s...

We report the discovery of a planet transiting a moderately faint (V = 12.3 mag) late F star, with an orbital period of 3.92289 ± 0.00004 days. From the transit light curve and radial velocity measurements we determine that the radius of the planet is R p = 1.40 ± 0.06 R Jup and that the mass is M p = 0.78 ± 0.09 M Jup. The density of the new planet, ρ p = 0.35 ± 0.06 g cm −3 , fits to the low-...

In the present article, we describe the validation of a new non-invasive method for measuring blood pressure (BP) which also enables to determine the three BP values: systolic, diastolic and mean value. Our method is based on the pulse transit time (PTT) measurement along an artery directly at the BP cuff. The accuracy of this method was evaluated by comparison with the direct simultaneous meas...

The paper set out to investigate the effectiveness of the removals in transit (RIT) system in facilitating trade. The study wanted to establish whether the Removals in Transit system currently being used in Zimbabwe is effective enough, that is whether acquittals of entries are being done in the system properly or fraudulently. A sample size of 200 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) employees a...

BACKGROUND Alosetron is a potent and selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, which has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of female patients with non-constipated irritable bowel syndrome. AIMS To investigate the effect of alosetron on whole gut, small bowel and colonic transit in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (Study 1) and healthy volunteers (Study 2). SUBJECTS Thirteen pati...

This paper proposes a novel model for determining the optimal number of transit operators and the allocation of new lines in an oligopolistic transit market. The proposed model consists of three interrelated sub-models that are associated with three types of players; namely, transit authority, transit operators, and transit passengers. In practice, the operating cost per unit of transit line of...