The proportionality between raindrop-driven soil erosion delivery and area of soil exposed to raindrops under a uniform precipitation rate was investigated in terms of individual size classes using laboratory flume experiments. In particular, we examined the dependence of soil erosion on the area exposed to raindrop detachment. Twelve experiments were performed on the same laboratory flume, fil...

background:   objective: to determine whether different diagnostic criteria of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) are suitable for iranian population.   materials and methods: prospective study was performed on 617 pregnant women. 1804 subjects referred for 50 g glucose challenge test (gct) between 24th and 28 th weeks of gestation. 617 women with abnormal gct (blood glucose ≥130 mg/dl) underw...

Abstract The article examines methods of distinguishing positive and negative duties within the provisions European Convention Human Rights as applied by Court Rights. It highlights problems with tying to acts omissions, sets out a supplemental delineation method when those lead systematic classification errors: sort if they have capacity for multiple fulfilment options only allow one option. T...

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides an optimization methodology for deriving an efficiency score for each member of a set of peer decision-making units. Under the original DEA model it was assumed that there is constant returns to scale (CRS). This idea was later extended to the more general case that allowed for variable returns to scale (VRS). In both of these structures, it is assumed t...

the principle of self-defense and retaliation created in order to protect people at risk of invasion and to comply with the conditions of human nature has a long history. according to islamic law also pay special attention to these issues and the abundance of evidence indicates that these institutions. these institutions in spite of similarity in the evidences and matters but they differ in ter...

BACKGROUND Priority setting in population health is increasingly based on explicitly formulated values. The Patients Rights Act of the Norwegian tax-based health service guaranties all citizens health care in case of a severe illness, a proven health benefit, and proportionality between need and treatment. This study compares the values of the country's health policy makers with these three off...