BACKGROUND: Lovastatin is known to inhibit its own synthesis in the fungus Aspergillus terreus. Therefore, the use of a fermentation strategy that continuously removes some of the lovastatin produced from the bioreactor can enhance its productivity. This paper reports on the effects of dilution rate and the composition of the feed medium on lovastatin production by A. terreus. RESULTS: The feed...

This paper presents an early empirical study on Extreme Programming (XP) practices employing Positive Affect metric. The study was conducted on university students doing development projects to gain an insight understanding of the effect of using agile practices on software engineering (SE) teams. The finding indicates that XP practices do have positive affectivity on the SE teams. This is to b...

Continuous welded turnouts are important for CWR track through the railway station. According to equivalent resistance and non-linear theories and the principle of force diagram, a new method of theoretical calculation for continuous welded turnouts was developed. The continuous welded turnouts designed and installed according to the new theory behaved fairly well. The data collected on sites b...

in this work‎, ‎we formulate chatterjea contractions using graphs in metric spaces endowed with a graph ‎‎and‏ ‎‎‎‎investigate ‎the ‎existence‎ ‎of ‎fixed ‎points ‎for such mappings ‎under two different hypotheses‎. we also discuss the uniqueness of the fixed point. the given result is a generalization of chatterjea's fixed point theorem from metric spaces to metric spaces endowed with a graph.

background education, universal precautions, using protective glasses and a standard method of used needle disposal, are the most important strategies for preventing bloodborne infections. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the effect of a face-to-face education program with the effect of an official-imperative circular, on the needle-disposal behavior of nurses working in the shah...

after designing and constructing a coalescence cell, drop/interface coalescence phenomenon was studied in the absence and presence of single surfactant.two surface active agents of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 1-decanol were used. distilled water was used as dispersed phase. toluene, n-heptane and aqueous 60% (v/v) of glycerol were selected as continuous phases, separately. it was found that the ...

in this paper, a new continuous ant colony optimization (caco) algorithm is proposed for optimal reservoir operation. the paper presents a new method of determining and setting a complete set of control parameters for any given problem, saving the user from a tedious trial and error based approach to determine them. the paper also proposes an elitist strategy for caco algorithm where best solut...

background: pamphlet is a tool used for distance continuous professional development programs. in this study, we assessed the impact of an educational pamphlet on improving prescription writing errors in general physicians’ performance.   methods : in this randomized controlled interventional study, we prepared a training pamphlet according to the most prevalent prescription writing problems. w...

a non-malleable code is a variant of an encoding scheme which is resilient to tampering attacks. the main idea behind nonmalleable coding is that the adversary should not be able to obtain any valuable information about the message. non-malleablecodes are used in tamper-resilient cryptography and protecting memories against tampering attacks. many different types of nonmalleability have already...

in this work‎, ‎we formulate chatterjea contractions using graphs in metric spaces endowed with a graph ‎‎and‏ ‎‎‎‎investigate ‎the ‎existence‎ ‎of ‎fixed ‎points ‎for such mappings ‎under two different hypotheses‎. we also discuss the uniqueness of the fixed point. the given result is a generalization of chatterjea's fixed point theorem from metric spaces to metric spaces endowed with a g...