A variety of approaches have been used to infer decision rules used by consumers. These approaches include protocol methods, self-reports, and non-linear compensatory and noncompensatory models of judgement. But there is little work on inferring the rules from choice or preference data, a situation that stands in contrast with the great progress in data-analytic techniques for linear models. Th...

Background: Antibiotic prophylaxis is usually used in allogenic stem cell transplantation, but its use in Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT) is controversial. We evaluated the efficacy of ciprofloxacin prophylaxis in ASCT. Materials and Methods: To identify the efficacy of ciprofloxacin on the incidence of neutropenic fever and its complications, 72 patients had been admitted to Talegh...

introduction the main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in golestan province of iran. materials and methods forty-four x-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. eight parameters including kvp accuracy, kvp reproducibility, ma-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

In 1976, we began a comprehensive evaluation of "Vexar" seedling protectors as a means of reducing damage to conifer seedlings by pocket gophers (Thomomys spp.). The protectors are cylinders of plastic netting that gradually decompose in sunlight. The evaluation is being conducted on four national forests in three western states. Three conifer species, lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), ponderosa...

Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is an important cash crop to most farmers in Western and Central Zones of Tanzania [1]. However, the yield adversely affected by low soil fertility [2]. The nutritional requirement for provide potential yield-is high requires huge amount nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K) proper growth development roots [3–7]. After being transplanted fields, tobacco see...

Responses of Cola nitida and acuminata to NPK Super-gro fertilizers on seedling development, field establishment, canopy characteristics were investigated in 2019-2020. Seedlings the two species transplanted as a randomized complete block design with three replications field. Fertilizer treatments imposed shoot root growth parameters cola monitored for growing seasons. From results, application...

We have assessed Calbiochem single-vial enzymatic reagent systems for the analysis for cholesterol and triglycerides, using manual and centrifugal analyzer techniques. Analysis for cholesterol by both techniques had acceptable performance by the short-term criteria of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) during this study carried out under optimal conditions of variance. Analysis for triglyceri...

this is totally unacceptable. The third is to get the law changed —and to stay the hand of the Postal Service until this can be done. We believe that the third alternative is the only one acceptable —on both moral and practical grounds —to the scientific community and to the publishers of scientific information. Such an action requires the mobilization of this community in terms of lobbying, le...