Obesogenic built environments may contribute to excessive eating and obesity. Twenty-three 12- to 17-year-old low-income African American adolescents created digital diaries by photographing their lunchtime food environment in a summer academic program. Digitally depicted foods were classified as appearing on the platescape (student's or others' plate) or the tablescape (food buffet). Height, w...

Researchers have doubted Islamic funds’ ability to provide promising financial returns due the shariah screening procedures. Despite its popularity, funds are still in doubt generate attractive returns. Survival of is highly contingent on their capacity foresee Shariah compliance opportunities economic shifts. Investors defer fund withdrawal worst-performing and anticipate manager will adjust f...

The Indian buffet process (IBP) is an exchangeable distribution over binary matrices used in Bayesian nonparametric featural models. In this paper we propose a three-parameter generalization of the IBP exhibiting power-law behavior. We achieve this by generalizing the beta process (the de Finetti measure of the IBP) to the stable-beta process and deriving the IBP corresponding to it. We find in...

immobilization of catalysts on the surface of some inert supports makes therecovering step easier. because of the specific physicochemical properties, zeolites are good candidate as catalyst supports. in this study, zeolite x was synthesized by natural kaolin and tio2 was incorporated into zeolite phase by impregnation method. degradation of safranin orange, methylene blue and 2,4–dinitroanilin...

A series of new hexahydroquinoline and 1,4-dihydropyrimidine derivatives were synthesized. Condensation of 2-methyl- thiazole-4-carboxaldehyde (1) with 1,3-cyclohexanedione and alkyl 3- aminocrotonate afforded 4-(2-methyl-thiazol-4-yl)-hexahydroquinoline while condensation of aldehyde (1) with benzoyl acetone and thiourea gave 1,4-dihydropyrimidine derivatives. The stereochemistry of 1,4-dihydr...