wetlands as a situ for the growth of native plants, as a habitat for certain species of fish and aquatic birds, and because of their potential economic, cultural and recreational services, are valuable heritage so their protection and conservation is very essential. mostly due to the absence of wetlands services’ valuation, lack of special regulations, and lack of guarantee for these properties...

Standardization of complex products is touted as improving consumer decisions and intensifying price competition, but evidence on standardization is limited. We examine a natural experiment: the standardization of health insurance plans on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange. Prestandardization, firms had wide latitude to design plans. A regulatory change then required firms to standard...

this study evaluates the lifelikeness layers of boroujerdi’s house in kashan as a case study to analyze the houses of islamic period, especially qajar era. why traditional iranian architecture was considered as sustainable architecture? what are the elements included in the traditional architecture to take the most advantage of the least facilities? what elements does the modern architecture la...

OBJECTIVES We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention would increase sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria. METHODS Phase 1 was a 3-month color-coded labeling intervention (red = unhealthy, yellow = less healthy, green = healthy). Phase 2 added a 3-month choice architecture intervention that increased the visibility and convenience ...

Epigenetic modifications to DNA and chromatin programme important genome functions including gene expression, chromosomal architecture and stability, and the maintenance of developmental states. Recent findings further implicate epigenetic modifications in the control of allelic choice in the immune system.

Analyzing disperse and heterogeneous provenance data usually requires using higher-level tools which scientists need to learn. In our view, scientists should be able to analyze provenance in the SWfMS of their choice. In this paper, we propose Géfyra, an architecture based on the PROV-Wf model, which provides a way to capture heterogeneous provenance data from different SWfMSs into a single for...

The High-Resolution Wide-Swath (HRWS) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system, promoted by EADS Astrium GmbH, has been object in the last years of intensive studies for his capability to overcome the conflict between azimuth resolution and swath width of conventional SAR. The original choice of a bistatic solution for the system architecture has been recently reconsidered and is currently oriente...

Choice between SIMD and MIMD. Parallel programming languages are either synchronous or asynchronous, re ecting whether the target machine is either a SIMD or MIMD architecture. On SIMD machines, programs are restricted to total synchrony, even if that causes poor machine utilization. On MIMD machines, tightly synchronous execution is quite expensive to implement when needed. Since the choice is...

Product architecture is the scheme by which the function of a product is allocated to physical components. This paper further defines product architecture, provides a typology of product architectures, and articulates the potential linkages between the architecture of the product and five areas of managerial importance: (1) product change; (2) product variety; (3) component standardization; (4)...