background & aim: satureja khuzistanica jamzad. is an aromatic and medicinal perennial plant belongs to family mint (lamiaceae). it is also an iranian exclusive endemic species, its essential oil components are widely used in medicinal, culinary, and perfume industries. experimental: flowers were collected in 10 regions in khuzistan and lorestan provinces, iran at early anthesis during 2009...

Price volatility and investor overreactions are commonplace in experimental asset markets. Understanding the price dynamics in these markets is crucial for designing successful new trading institutions. We report on a series of experiments to test the predictions of a new momentum model using a dynamical systems approach. This model is then pitted against several standard models to predict pric...

Galli-Galli disease is a rare genodermatosis currently regarded as an acantholytic variant of Dowling-Degos disease. The 2 diseases have the same clinical features: reticular hyperpigmented macules in the great skin folds, erythematous scaly papules and plaques, comedo-like lesions, and pitted perioral scars, and the only differentiating characteristic is the histological finding of acantholysi...

Interactive training is well suited to computer games as it allows game designers to interact with otherwise autonomous learning algorithms. This paper investigates the outcome of a group of five commercial first person shooter game designers using a custom built interactive training tool to train first person shooter bots. The designers are asked to train a bot using the tool, and then comment...

This article reports grammatical gender attribution scores in French Williams participants (N=28, mean chronological age=15.1) in an experiment similar to the classic one from Karmiloff-Smith (1979) where grammatical gender was pitted against natural gender. WS participants massively opted for the masculine gender as the default one, just as MA-controls did. They differed from CA-controls, howe...

Edible coatings are traditionally used to improve food appearance and conservation due their environmentally friendly nature. In this study fresh cut (halved pitted) plum (var. Stanley) fruits were coated by chitosan grape-seed-oil (GsO) nanoemulsion. Physical, physico-chemical, microbiological sensorial properties examined 3 times during 9 d refrigeration storage. The control probes wasted saf...

An investigation of the friction and sliding wear of gray cast iron against chromium plated cast irons was carried out on a newly constructed reciprocating friction and wear tester. The tests were the first to be done on the test rig under dry conditions and at the speed of 170 cm/min, and variable loads of 20-260 N for a duration of 15 min. to 3 hours. The gray cast iron surfaces worn by a pro...

This piece of research presents the concepts Ethics and Morals in relation to achievement Sustainable Development Goal targets 8.5 8.8 2030 Agenda. Specifically, this work develops an explanation for some possible conflicts generated by challenges ethical moral nature implementation business policies oriented toward economic sustainability. To end, first, a reflection basic is provided. Second,...

Recently acquired high-resolution images of martian impact craters provide further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and the impact cratering process. A densely pitted crater-related unit has been identified in images of 204 craters from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This sample of craters are nearly equally distributed between the two hemispheres, spanning from 53 S ...