To combat disease outbreaks, public health officials often use painstaking fieldwork to try to stay one step ahead of the infectious bugs, linking patients’ symptoms to a source of infection to quickly identify the common culprit in related cases. Now, a new field called genomic epidemiology is taking advantage of the rapidly reduced costs of next-generation DNA sequencing to better inform publ...

Aquaculture production of molluscs is worth US$11 billion per year and represents 65% of World mollusc product. A significant limitation to the industry is loss of stock through bacterial disease. Traditional methods to combat disease with antibiotics have been questioned and alternatives have been sought. The field of probiotics as well as the screening methods used to acquire probiotic strain...

purpose the objective of this study was to compare the iranian taekwondo-in statistically in terms of total injury rates to international counterparts as gleaned from the extant literature. methods the iranian sample consisted of 204 male taekwondo-in participating in the national championship. the international sample included the participants in national and international tournaments. validat...

there is little question anymore about the reality of post- traumatic stress disorder(ptsd) as a disorder. for some, this disorder progressively worsens over time and appears to affect nearly all aspects of life, including work, interpersonal relationships, physical health, and view of self. the severity of ptsd may lead to repeated hospitalizations over the years and may require ongoing outpat...

air defense is a crucial area for all naval combat systems. in this study, we consider a warship equipped with an air-defense weapon that targets incoming threats using surface-to-air missiles. we define the weapon scheduling problem as the optimal scheduling of a set of surface-to-air missiles of a warship to a set of attacking air threats. the optimal scheduling of the weapon results in an in...

this paper argues that we will never get rid of the extremist mentality unless the dualist view prevails and is taught as part of the educational system. the dualist view takes account of both sides of an argument whereas the extremist view promotes one side unequivocally without considering the merits of the opposing view. the merits of the dualist view can be taught in schools so that everyon...

purpose: triage is a complicated and dynamic process in nature. moreover, there are many challenges in selecting the required information about the casualties, the wounded, and the type of accident at the time of crisis. hence, this research was undertaken to present a new strategy for efficiently triaging casualties in the battlefield. methodology: in this review, two methods of field and libr...