In this paper, we analyze tactical conflicts between attacking formations and blocking formations in the phase of reception attack in volleyball, using a zerosum game model. In this model, we categorize the attacking formations into 9 patterns which consist of 3 moving patterns of forward players and 3 positions (right, center and left) from which the ball can be spiked. We also categorize the ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition, especially under nutrition puts children at increased risk of morbidity and mortality and remains a serious barrier in child growth, development and survival. This is a major public health problem among under- 5 children in Nepal particularly in rural areas. OBJECTIVE To assess the burden and contributing factors for malnutrition in hill community of Ilam district in ...

Background: Seasonality in suicide has been investigated from the early 19th century to explore the productive environmental variables. Seasonality studies can provide information on prevention and interventions in suicide. In this study, we examined seasonality in suicide and aimed to explore the differences in seasonality between rural and urban areas, mental disorders, and genders. Methods: ...

BACKGROUND Scorpions' stings and their own mortalities place them among the most important health and medical problems. The dreadful features and especially their poisonous stings are considered a major cause of human stress and abhorrence/phobia. The current study aimed to study the scorpion fauna of Ilam Province, south western Iran in order to manage scorpionism related problems. METHODS I...

This paper presents a method for control of formations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments with several obstacles. Therefore the trajectories for each UAV are planned using mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP) to describe a minimization problem. The result of this minimization problem then characterizes a collision free trajectory for each UAV using the commanded form...

OBJECTIVES Widespread use of β-lactam antibiotics could cause resistance to this group of antibiotics in pathogenic bacteria through the production of the enzyme β-lactamases. The aim of this study is to determine the molecular detection of AmpC β-lactamases among clinical Escherichia coli isolated from Ilam hospitals in Ilam, Iran. METHODS One hundred and twelve clinical isolates of E. coli ...

Biological multi-agent systems such as animal herds, insect colonies and fish schools provide a lot of insight into the study and design of artificial multi-agent systems such as teams of autonomous mobile robots. Similarly, a lot can be learned about biological systems by borrowing design and analysis tools from multi-agent robotics. In this paper some recent work in the area of multi-agent ro...