Background and Objectives: During Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar, Muslims abstain from eating and drinking from sunrise adhaan to sunset adhaan. This long fasting period can cause change in certain metabolic and hormonal indices and affect eating behaviors and nutrient intake. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess nutrient intake in fasting people in Qom, Iran. ...

These experiments were conducted to determine metabolizable energy and amino acid digestibilities of soybean meal, sunflower meal and canola meal in broiler chickens by using titanium oxide as indigestible marker in intact or caecectomized cockerels. Ileal and total tract digestibility of amino acids were measured using broiler chickens, moreover, digestibility were also determined in the intac...

We used Wick’s normal-ordering technique, squeezed creation and annihilation operators, and a variation method, to find the eigenvalues of the general pure ?x2m potential. Numerical results for low-lying energy levels of pure quadratic, quartic, sextic, octic and decatic potentials, for different values of ? were obtained. Some interesting features of these energy levels are explained.

The proportional relationships between the Charpy absorbed energy (CVN) and the KIC values have been established for a wide variety of steels. Several formulae have been proposed that predict KIC from CVN. The purpose of this study is to investigate, by means of compact testing fracture toughness specimens, the effective role of microstructure for estimation of the fractur...

Algorithmic skeletons in conjunction with list homomorphisms play an important role in formal development of parallel algorithms. We have designed a notion of homomorphism dedicated to bulk synchronous parallelism. In this paper we derive two application using this theory: sparse matrix vector multiplication and the all nearest smaller values problem. We implement a support for BSP homomorphism...

mp2 calculations with cc-pvtz basis set were used to analyze intermolecular interactions in f3cx···yli···nccn and f3cx···nccn···liy triads (x = cl, br; y = cn, nc) which are connected via halogen and lithium bonds. those complexes with the role of liy as halogen acceptor and lithium donor show cooperativity with energy values ranging between -1.97 and -2.92 kj mol-1. those complexes with simult...