running the industrial components at a proper temperature is always a big challenge for engineers. internal combustion engines are among these components in which temperature plays a big role in their performance and emissions. with the development of new technology in the fields of ‘nano-materials’ and ‘nano-fluids’, it seems very promising to use this technology as a coolant in the internal c...

CONTEXT Medicare Part D drug benefits include substantial cost sharing. OBJECTIVE To determine beneficiaries' knowledge of benefits and cost responses. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Telephone interviews were conducted in 2007 in a stratified random sample of community-dwelling Kaiser Permanente-Northern California Medicare Advantage beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, with a gap in co...

In light of increasing concerns about the efficacy environmental governance (EG) to address global sustainability challenges Anthropocene era, more integrative, transversal, and far-reaching approaches, referred here as (SG), are gaining ground both in praxis research. Empirical methodological emerge from this conceptual analytical cleavage between EG SG. Through a combination bibliometric netw...

narcissus is one of the very popular flowers among iranians. this flower has a short life. to investigate the increasing of vase life of cut narcissus, sour orange fruit extract in concentrations of 2.5, 4, 5.5 and 7 ml l-1 and sucrose in concentrations of 3, 4, 5 and 6% were used. in addition, distilled water was used as a control treatment. in this experiment, characters of vase life and perc...

in this article, it has been tried to analyze the mental satisfaction of the quality of life in different regions in terms of objective development. for this purpose, districts no. 3, 6, and 9 of mashhad city which through the measures of education, income, and employment were respectively among the deprived, the average, and the privileged regions were selected as the case study areas. moreove...

The isolated North Atlantic island of Bermuda, lying 1000 km ESE of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA, has received scant attention from bryologists since the last compilations of nearly a century ago (EG Britton, 1918; Evans, 1918), plus a few additions (Andrews, 1923; Dixon, 1936). Of the mosses listed by EG Britton (1918), those that are not widespread in both Europe and North America are o...

OBJECTIVE Incorporating accurate life expectancy predictions into clinical decision making could improve quality and decrease costs, but few providers do this. We sought to use predictive data mining and high dimensional analytics of electronic health record (EHR) data to develop a highly accurate and clinically actionable 5 year life expectancy index. MATERIALS AND METHODS We developed the i...

In this prospective pilot study the efficiency of an inflatable, balloon-shaped vaginal dilatator (Epi-no®) was examined. This Birth Trainer is designed to gently mechanically expand the birth canal and to therefore reduce the episiotomy rate and improve the fetal outcome. 50 primiparae with a gestational age of 38 completed weeks aiming at a spontaneous birth participated in this Birth Trainin...