two hundred and fifty day-old broiler chickens were housed in a high altitude farm and divided in two experimental groups (cold-exposed and control). at the age of 3 and 4 d, the cold-exposed chickens were exposed to 15?c for 3 h, while the control birds were reared under normal condition. during the period between 14 and 28 days, both groups of chickens were exposed to a low environmental temp...

Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is an important health problem due to ongoing asbestos exposure. Environmental asbestos exposure leads to a high risk of MM in Turkey. The Turkish Mesothelioma Working Group and the Turkish Public Health Institute designed and performed the Turkey National Mesothelioma Surveillance and Environmental Asbestos Exposure Control Program (TUNMES-EAECP). The aim of this st...

Adolescence and prenatal cocaine exposure can impact risk-taking. In this study, we evaluated risk-taking and gender-related differences in adolescents with prenatal cocaine exposure in terms of electrophysiological correlates of inhibitory control and sustained attention. No differences related to gender were found within measures of risk-taking, or electrophysiological response relating to ri...

The causes of cancer health disparities amongst Pacific Islanders and other racial groups are complex and multifactorial. Both biologic and non biologic determinants have been identified as causal factors. Racial/ethnic classification can be used as a surrogate for non biologic determinants such as place of geographic origin, socioeconomic status, cultural practices, and diet. Given that non bi...

The traditional architecture of Kerala, a state in India lying along its southwest coast, is known for its use of natural and passive methods for a comfortable indoor environment. Although there have been attempts to analyze the traditional architecture of Kerala, they were focused only on qualitative approach. An investigation was thus initiated by the authors to understand the passive environ...

In the shipbuilding process, lighting system in hull workshop consumes a large amount of electricity and the temperature and humidity inside affect the safety and quality of production directly. In order to save energy and monitor the temperature and humidity of working space in real time, an environment monitoring and energy saving control system was designed based on ZigBee wireless sensor ne...

Abstract: In this paper an observer-based novel design of robust control system with an estimate scheme of sensor states to accommodate extended bounded-sensor-faults is proposed. The sensor faults taken into consideration are, in general, modeled as polytopic bounds in robust control framework and are usually given as a priori assumption. But, in practice, the sensors that are subject to fault...