a sequence of permian rocks crops out in northwest of khur in central alborz, north of iran. this sequence consists of the dorud (asselian-sakmarian), ruteh (artinskian-murgabian) and nesen (early djulfian) formations. the ruteh and nesen formations in alborz range were deposited in a shallow marine environment of the continental margin in the paleo-tethys. the ruteh formation with a thickness ...

An in vitro evaluation of the anti-microbial activity of medicated soaps was conducted using ditch-plate and hand washing techniques. Strains of reference microbes namely Candida albicans (ATCC90028), Staphylococcus aureus (ATCC25923), Pseudomonas aureginosa (ATCC27853) and Escherichia coli (ATCC25922) were tested at three different soaps' concentrations (1.0, 4.0 and 8.0 mg/ml). A total of 16 ...

This paper investigates a method for decentralized stabilization of vehicle formations using techniques from algebraic graph theory. The vehicles exchange information according to a pre-specified communication digraph, G. A feedback control is designed using relative information between a vehicle and its in-neighbors in G. We prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for an appropriate de...

In 2007, Kangan Institute commenced inclusion of Allied Health Assistant Certificate 4 Podiatry Units delivered by a podiatrist. Different models have been delivered including external placement with private podiatrists, service specific units on site and external work based programs. Since then, a number of TAFE based AHA courses have been commenced including those at Swinburne and Gippsland. ...

Consensus algorithms allow multiple robots to achieve agreement on estimates of variables in a distributed manner, hereby coordinating the robots as a team, and enabling applications such as formation control and cooperative area coverage. These algorithms achieve agreement by relying only on local, nearest-neighbor communication. The problem with distributed consensus, however, is that a singl...

A decentralized architecture is proposed for autonomous establishment and maintenance of satellite formations. Such an architecture does not require a central supervisor, as the spacecraft can cooperatively track planned maneuvers and trajectories in the face of disturbances and uncertainties, while processing only local measurement information. If the planned maneuvers and trajectories are the...

In this article we address the problem of determining how a structured formation of autonomous undistinguishable agents can be reorganized into another, eventually non-rigid, formation based on changes in the environment, perhaps unforeseeable. The methodology can also be used to correctly position the agents into a particular formation from an initial set of random locations. Given the informa...