Botulinum Toxin (BT) is a natural molecule produced during growth and autolysis of bacterium called Clostridium botulinum. Use of BT for cosmetic purposes has gained popularity over past two decades, and recently, other therapeutic uses of BT has been extensively studied. BT is considered as a minimally invasive agent that can be used in the treatment of various orofacial disorders and improvin...

A unique software tool for conducting human factors analyses of complex human-machine systems has been developed at NASA Ames Research Center. Called the Man-Machine Integration Design and Analysis System (MIDAS), this simulation system contains models of human performance that can be used to evaluate candidate procedures, controls, and displays prior to more expensive and time consuming hardwa...

This study reports psychometric properties and derivation of norms for a Persian version of the Multiple Intelligence Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS) for Adults. After examining and confirming equivalency between English and Persian versions, translated and validated by Saeidi, Ostovar, Shearer, and Asghari Jafarabadi (2015), the scale was administered to a sample (N = 2146), including ...

Nowadays, new technologies and platforms are emerging and changing constantly, which implies a high effort developing software products. This situation generates different problems related to portability, integration and interoperability. The Object Management Group (OMG) proposes the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), which improves portability of applications by allowing the same model to be re...

The AAA(+)-ATPase Rea1 removes the ribosome biogenesis factor Rsa4 from pre-60S ribosomal subunits in the nucleoplasm to drive nuclear export of the subunit. To do this, Rea1 utilizes a MIDAS domain to bind a conserved motif in Rsa4. Here, we show that the Rea1 MIDAS domain binds another pre-60S factor, Ytm1, via a related motif. In vivo Rea1 contacts Ytm1 before it contacts Rsa4, and its inter...

This paper presents a Service-Oriented Process Model (SOM) to build a web-services based process management system, called MIDAS that would support distributed Design and Manufacturing process. SOM uses OWL specification, and describes the semantics of the design process with an underlying mathematical mode, Process Grammar, which supports dynamic process creation and enactment. The rich semant...

The prototype hybrid high-rise structure is special for its dual structural systems, so a 1/50 shaking table model was tested by the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering of Tongji University to study its seismic behaviors. Then numerical models were made by 3D finite element analysis software, named MIDAS. The comparison of the analytical and experimental results veri...