Standard provisions for wind loads on buildings have traditionally been based on summary tables and/or plots suitable for slide-rule calculations, leading to a discrepancy between the accuracy of wind loads defined by such tables and plots and the accuracy of current methods for stress computation. Advances in computational power now make it possible to reduce this discrepancy and achieve struc...

objective:mold contamination of cakes and the possibility of mold growth can pose a serious health problem. bakery products include various ingredients, which regularly contain molds. these microorganisms on cakes can come from the air, contaminated packaging materials and other sources.methods: in this study, a total of 500 fungal isolates representing 36 species, were identified from cake sam...

To analyze the impact of using a hand held fan to speed the air-drying process during immediate adequacy evaluation of Fine Needle Aspirations. The effect on turn around time and staining quality is evaluated. Two mirror image air-dried smears for each pass were prepared. One was subjected to a small hand-held fan with a fan diameter of 7 cm held an average distance of 3 to 5 cm from the slide....

We study the Slide meta-constraint. This slides a constraint down one or more sequences of variables. We show that Slide can be used to encode and propagate a wide range of global constraints. We consider a number of extensions including sliding down sequences of set variables, and combining Slide with a global cardinality constraint. We also show how to propagate Slide. Our experiments demonst...

Salton (J. Gen. Microbiol. 30:223, 1963) summarized the evidence which demonstrates that the gram-positive cell is able to retain the crystal violet after iodine treatment because of the characteristic nature of its cell wall. This evidence is highly convincing, yet it does not explain the experiments of Henry and Stacy (Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. B 133:391, 1946) or of Bartholomew and Umbreit...

BACKGROUND Solid organ transplantation patients are at high risk for opportunistic air-borne fungal infections due to using the potent immunosuppressive agents. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the fungal flora present in the air of Kidney transplant unit of Baqiyatallah hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, air samples fro...