Biodiversity and structure of the benthic macrofauna communities were studied in the southeast the Caspian Sea (Golestan Province – Iran) during one year from October 2014 to September 2015. Seasonal samplings were done at 6 stations in 3 transects. Depth, temperature, salinity, pH, E.C., total organic matter and grain size were measured. More than 4,037 individuals belonging to five orders, Po...

A pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) with fast response characteristics that can be sprayed on a test article is studied. This PSP consists of a polymer for spraying and a porous particle for providing the fast response. We controlled the polymer content (%) from 10 to 90% to study its effects on PSP characteristics: the signal level, pressure sensitivity, temperature dependency, and time response....

High efficiency GaAs concentrator cells are useful for numerous applications requiring isolated power and voltage, or transmission of power without electromagnetic interference. This paper concerns the characteristics of GaAs concentrator cells illuminated by high-intensity laser beams. The objectives of this study are to identify and understand the mechanisms which limit the performance of GaA...

Dependency distance is closely related to human working memory capacity, but is also influenced by other non-cognitive factors. Studies of dependency distance contribute to the understanding of the universalities and peculiarities of languages as well as human cognitive processes in language. Forty two sentence sets were selected from a parallel English–Chinese dependency treebank to examine th...

Effects of temperature on electrical parameters of polysilicon solar cells, fabricated using the phosphorous spin-on diffusion technique, have been studied. The current density–voltagecharacteristics of polycrystalline silicon solar cells were measured in dark at different temperaturelevels. For this purpose, a diode equivalent model was used to obtain saturation current densi...

This study investigates the relationships between predictors (i.e., personal traits and mobile activities) of smartphone dependency and its impacts on improper phone use, academic performance and perceived sociability. Using a stratified sampling method, a web survey obtained data from 438 undergraduate smartphone users in Singapore. PLS results show that improper phone use is a critical factor...

Negation of clinical named entities is common in clinical documents and is a crucial factor to accurately compile patients' clinical conditions and to further support complex phenotype detection. In 2009, Mayo Clinic released the clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES), which includes a negation annotator that identifies negation status of a named entity by searching for...

Warren, Gordon L., Christopher P. Ingalls, and R. B. Armstrong. Temperature dependency of force loss and Ca2 homeostasis in mouse EDL muscle after eccentric contractions. Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol 282: R1122–R1132, 2002. First published December 21, 2001; 10.1152/ajpregu.00671.2001.—The goals of this study were first to determine the effect of temperature on the force los...

Laser forming has not been widely used due to limited understanding of its mechanism and immaturity of processing technology. In the study of single axis laser bending of plates, edge effects affect accuracy of the bending. Experimental and numerical studies are carried out to study the mechanism of the edge effects. Temperature dependency of material properties and strain-rate dependency of yi...

Many proteins require the assistance of molecular chaperones in order to fold efficiently. Chaperones are known to mask the effects of mutations that induce misfolding because they can compensate for the deficiency in spontaneous folding. One of the best studied chaperones is the eubacterial GroEL/GroES system. In Escherichia coli, three classes of proteins have been distinguished based on thei...