Cadmium is a common impurity in phosphatic fertilizers and may contribute to soil Cd accumulation. Changes in total and bioavailable Cd burdens to agricultural soils and the potential for plant Cd accumulation resulting from fertilizer input was investigated. Three year field studies were conducted using three dose levels of cadmium-rich, commercial, phosphate fertilizers applied at four agricu...

Violence and aggression in computer games has been a concern of social commentators and an interest of media researchers for more than 10 years. Violent content has been at the top of the agenda even though aggression and hostility have been identified as a part of competitive gaming situations. The role of the opponent in this process has been largely overlooked. We examined the difference in ...

Challenges remain in leveraging e-health technologies for continuous medical education/professional development. This study examines the interface design and learning process features related to the use of multimedia in providing effective support for the knowledge and practice of surgical skills. Twentyone surgical trainees evaluated surgical content on a CD-ROM format based on 14 interface de...

— A novel damage localization method is proposed, which is based on a substructuring approach and makes use of Vector Auto-Regressive with eXogenous input (VARX) models. The substructuring approach aims to divide the monitored structure into several multi-DOF isolated substructures. Later, each individual substructure is modeled by a VARX model, and the health of each substructure is determined...

میون‌­ها به دلیل سطح مقطع کوچک برای انجام واکنش، متداول‌­ترین تابش فضایی قابل آشکارسازی در زمین هستند. همانند سایر ذراتی که از طریق برخورد ذرات پرانرژی تولید می‌­شوند، ناپایدار و دارای طیف توزیع طول عمر این مقاله، انرژی میون با استفاده سیستم طیف‌­سنجی دیجیتال اندازه‌­گیری شده است. روش ارایه همه ماژول­ه‌ای الکترونیک هسته‌­ای آنالوگ حذف فرایند شکل­ دهی سیگنال‌­ها ثبت آن­ها صورت نرم­‌افزاری اندازه...

In order to better understand the chiral recognition mechanisms of positively charged cyclodextrin (CD) derivatives, synthesis, pKa determination by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-pH titration and a comparative capillary electrophoretic (CE) study were performed with two series mono-substituted cationic single isomer CDs. The first selectors mono-(6-N-pyrrolidine-6-deoxy)-β-CD (PYR-β-CD), ...