pupose: this research aims to investigate how users expand their queries when encountered with irrelevant retrievals and through examine the degree of match between users' expanded subject queries and the list of persian subject headings. furthermore, it compares the patterns of query expansion in two subject areas: 1) agriculture (applied sciences); 2) education and psychology (humanities). me...

BACKGROUND Despite harmful drinking causing a significant burden on global health, there is a large treatment gap, especially in low- and middle-income countries. A major barrier to care is the lack of adequately skilled human resources to deliver contextually appropriate treatments. This paper describes the systematic process used to develop Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a brief psyc...

molluscicidal activity of different organic solvent extracts of latex of euphorbia pulcherima and euphorbia hirta (family-euphorbiaceae) against two freshwater harmful snails lymnaea acuminata and indoplanorbis exustus has been reported. both the snails are the intermediate hosts of fasciola hepatica and fasciola gigantica, which cause endemic fascioliasis in cattle and livestock of eastern par...

The robustness of system throughput with scheduling is a critical issue. In this paper, we analyze the sensitivity of multi-user scheduling performance to channel misreporting in systems with massive antennas. The main result is that for the round-robin scheduler combined with max-min power control, the channel magnitude misreporting is harmful to the scheduling performance and has a different ...

Musculoskeletal symptoms, visual fatigue and stress are the common health hazards among the computer users. The objective of this study is to compute the level of risk among the computer users using Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) method. Working postures are recorded with 10 participants having age range from 25 to 33. It is observed that more than 70% postures are harmful for prolonged use...

Protecting the environment is quickly becoming one of the most important topics of today’s world. Yet while reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a must, people continue to follow environmentally harmful habits for reasons such as ignorance, laziness, and the inability to see the impact they are making. CarbonShopper helps users make the most environmentally friendly choice while shopping by pro...