For preserving food packed in environmentally friendly and recyclable paperboard packages, it is important to have sufficient gas barrier performance of the container. Paperboard has poor intrinsic properties overcome this deficiency, so a coating needed that does not hinder recycling substrate. However, recyclability such coatings been rarely studied. Here, both removal an alkali-soluble resin...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is an inflammatory disorder, in which neurons become demyelinated. to date, its etiology has remained unknown. nevertheless, certain features are inspected to provoke ms. for instance, improper function of immune cells is widely believed to be the basis of such disorder. in this concept, ms is stated as an autoimmune disease, which was asserted by major of studies, as cd...

background: family planning is a lifestyle that is selected voluntarily and is based on the knowledge, attitude and responsible decision making by couples in order to promote the health and welfare of the family and the advancement of the society. in this regard, family planning counseling plays an important role in making informed decisions if used properly and in a responsible way. detection ...

Based on previous explicit computations of universal barrier functions, we describe numerical experiments for solving certain classes of convex optimization problems. The comparison is given of the performance of the classical affine-scaling algorithm with the similar algorithm built upon the universal barrier function.

Barrier coverage, an important research area with respect to camera sensor networks, consists of a number of camera sensors to detect intruders that pass through the barrier area. Existing works on barrier coverage such as local face-view barrier coverage and full-view barrier coverage typically assume that each intruder is considered as a point. However, the crucial feature (e.g., size) of the...

Air quality assessment and management is usually performed using atmospheric integrated modelling systems and comparisons with data observed by monitoring stations. In Italy, the Project MINNI (National Integrated Model in support to the International Negotiation on Air Pollution) has been supporting Italian Ministry of Environment for the last ten years within the international negotiation pro...

This SDP provides a simplified risk-informed framework to estimate the increase in core damage frequency during at-power operations due to conditions which contribute unintended risk increases caused by deficient licensee performance. Conditions which do NOT represent deficient licensee performance, as determined by the staff, are considered part of the acceptable plant normal operating risk, a...