mediation is one of the most important methods for settlement of disputes. it may settle any disputes out of governmental courts and on private/confidential basis and quicker and cheaper than governmental courts. parties may hold different sessions for settlement of disputes and the most important factors in further success of mediation method and concluding any settlement agreement are the per...

The fact that distillation columns, even in the ideal binary case, may display multiple steady states and unstable operating points has only recently been recognized. This article addresses some implications of these phenomena for the operation and control of distillation columns. Under manual operation, the multiplicity and instability will result in inability to reach separations correspondin...

recent interaction studies havefocused on the relationship between interactional feedback and l2 development.despite the large body of knowledge in this regard, few studies have examinedlearners’ preferences for interactional feedback. besides, different findingshave been reported concerning learners’ preferences for feedback and none hasexamined the factors accounting for the variation in the ...

We present a result on stabilization of strict feedback systems with unknown disturbances based on the so-called twisting algorithm, a second-order sliding mode controller for the double integrator. The novelty of the note relies in the stability analysis of the closed-loop system and the relaxation of stability conditions (we do not assume boundedness of trajectories). The proof of the main re...

cancer is only moderately sensitive to radiation therapy and satisfactory tumor control requires fairly high delivered dose. Historically this has been achieved by combination of external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with intracavitary brachy-therapy. While dose distribution of EBRT is fairly homogenous, inverse-square law determines most of the dose distribution in brachytherapy. The dilemma has b...

*Consultant Paediatrician, A-D7, Devi Marg, Bani Park, Jaipur 302016; **Founder President, Indian Med-legal and Ethics Association, Amravati Received: 22.06.2011; Revised: 19.01.2012; Re-revised: 24.09.2013; Accepted: 27.09.2013 S back c lar i f icat ion was sought from the Medico-legal Group of Indian Academy of Paediatrics that it has observed Bonnisan liquid and Liv-52 preparations are being...

This paper treats deadlocks and liveness of the closed-loop discrete event system GSCSM|f consisting of a strongly connected state machine (SCSM), a subclass of Petri nets, and a state-feedback which realizes the mutually exclusive control. The GSCSM|f is not always live even if the original SCSM is live, and deadlocks exist in GSCSM|f. A deadlock marking is newly defined and the D-net is propo...

The primary virulence determinant of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite-infected cells is a family of heterogeneous surface receptors collectively referred to as PfEMP1. These proteins are encoded by a large, polymorphic gene family called var. The family contains approximately 60 individual genes, which are subject to strict, mutually exclusive expression, with the single expressed var gen...