in this article using comparative multi-purpose algorithm of pso, optimum capacity of new resources and their spinning storage is defined. spinning reserve requirements and optimized to maximize profit per unit is determined according to uncertainty. in fact by increasing the level of cost reservation, power supply increases but penalty of blackout decreases. in this paper in has been tried to ...

conservation of biodiversity in protected areas will be more challenging if local communities are heavily dependent on them for various products and subsistence needs. this study estimated forest dependency and identified factors influencing dependency for households living around kasane forest reserve (kfr). data collected from 237 households were analyzed using logistic regression model. logi...

tajikistan is a hotspot of plant and animal species diversity and endemism andis important for the conservation of biodiversity on a global scale. the country is located ata biological crossroads. species from central and northern europe, central asia, themiddle east, and north africa mingle here with endemics found nowhere else. therichness of tajikistan‘s biodiversity shows up at the genetic,...

background: the predictive roles of follicle stimulating hormone (fsh), anti-mullerian hormone (amh) and antral follicle count (afc) as ovarian reserve markers in women with different age groups are not established well. objective: this study compares the value of fsh, amh and afc at the time of     in vitro fertilization (ivf) treatment in different age groups. materials and methods: in this c...

L. Lu, G. Lee, V. Gulani, J. Sedor, K. Dell, and C. Flask Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States, Rammelkamp Renal Research Center, MetroHealth Medical Center, C...

1Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; 2Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; and 4Depart...

We thank staffs of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, participants at the Federal Reserve System applied microeconomics conference, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Annual Bank Research Conference and seminar participants at Villanova University for valuable comments. The views presented in this paper are solely those of the autho...

A codon consists of three nucleotides and functions during translation to dictate the insertion of a specific amino acid in a growing peptide or, in the case of stop codons, to specify the completion of protein synthesis. There are 64 possible single codons and there are 4096 double, 262 144 triple, 16 777 216 quadruple and 1 073 741 824 quintuple codon combinations available for use by specifi...

BACKGROUND Thirty years of pesticide registration toxicity data have been historically stored as hardcopy and scanned documents by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A significant portion of these data have now been processed into standardized and structured toxicity data within the EPA's Toxicity Reference Database (ToxRefDB), including chronic, cancer, developmental, and reproduc...

The plant epidermis regulates key physiological functions contributing to photosynthetic rate, plant productivity, and ecosystem stability. Yet, quantitative characterization of this interface between a plant and its aerial environment is laborious and destructive with current techniques, making large-scale characterization of epidermal cell parameters impractical. Here, we present our explorat...