The present investigation entails a procedure by which the surface tension and viscosity of liquids could be redicted.To this end, capillary experiments were performed for porous media by utilizing fifteen different liquids and powders. The time of capillary rise to a certain known height of each liquid in a particular powder was recorded. Two artificial neural networks (ANNs) were...

fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill.) is an industrial medicinal plant with different pharmaceutical and food applications. in this study, the leaf essential oil composition of 12 iranian accessions of fennel collected from different geographical regions was assessed. the essential oil yield of fennel leaves ranged from 0.65% (varamin accession) to 2.03% (tabriz accession). trans-anethole, fenchone...

We prove that any countable index, universally measurable subgroup of a Polish group is open. By consequence, any universally measurable homomorphism from a Polish group into the infinite symmetric group S∞ is continuous. We also show that a universally measure homomorphism from a Polish group into a second countable, locally compact group is necessarily continuous. The present work is motivate...

Th e dynamics of the emerging transnational stage in world capitalism cannot be understood through the blinkers of nation-state-centric thinking. In her study Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood exhibits the reification and outdated nation-state-centric thinking that plagues much recent work on world capitalism and US intervention, expressed in the confusing notion of a ‘new imperialism’. Th...

We present GrÆStl, a combined hardware architecture for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Grøstl, one of the final round candidates of the SHA-3 hash competition. GrÆStl has been designed for low-resource devices implementing AES-128 (encryption and decryption) as well as Grøstl-256 (tweaked version). We applied several resource-sharing optimizations and based our design on an 8/16-bit...