BACKGROUND Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is of increasing importance with about one in four people estimated to be diagnosed with COPD during their lifetime. None of the existing medications for COPD has been shown to have much effect on the long-term decline in lung function and there have been few recent pharmacotherapeutic advances. Identifying preventive interventions that ca...

OBJECTIVE Most patients in the People's Republic of China prefer tertiary hospitals when seeking medical services. The aim of this study was to assess outpatient satisfaction with tertiary hospitals in the People's Republic of China, test overall and subscale satisfaction, and explore whether sociodemographic characteristics lead to different degrees of satisfaction and whether subscale outpati...

Article history: Received 16 October 2015 Received in revised form 19 April 2016 Accepted 15 June 2016 Available online xxxx This paper assesses the feasibility of determining key household characteristics based on temporal loadprofiles of household electricity demand. It is known that household characteristics, behaviours and routines drive a number of features of household electricity loads i...

today, due to qualitative growth and scientific advances, energy, especially electricity is increasingly needed by human society. one of the almost endless and pure energy which have been paid attention over the years is the solar energy. solar cells directly convert solar energy into electrical energy and are one of the main blocks of photovoltaic systems. significant improvement has been made...

We report here on the genome sequence of Pasteurella multocida Razi 0002 of avian origin, isolated in Iran. The genome has a size of 2,289,036 bp, a G+C content of 40.3%, and is predicted to contain 2,079 coding sequences.

Absorption refrigeration system (ARS) continuously shows a growing interest in many applications due to cheap energy consumption and environmental friendly system. Typically, ARS system uses ammonia-water mixture where ammonia as refrigerant and water as absorbent. The system also consist hydrogen as auxiliary inert gas. While in this research, it is operated by using liquefied petroleum gas (L...

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVViewpointNEXTU.S.–China Collaboration is Vital to Global Plans for a Healthy Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentMing XuMing XuSchool Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1041, United StatesDepartment Civil Environmental Engineering, 48109, StatesMore by Ming Xuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7106-8390, Glen T. Daigger*Glen DaiggerDep...

Abstract- In a typical competitive electricity market, a large number of short-term and long-term contracts are set on basis of energy price by an Independent System Operator (ISO). Under such circumstances, accurate electricity price forecasting can play a significant role in improving the more reasonable bidding strategies adopted by the electricity market participants. So, they cannot only r...