The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has set widely used guidelines that are as a standardized approach assessing toxicity in number of species. Given various studies use different experimental setups, it is difficult to compare findings across them result the lack universally setup nano-ecotoxicology. For freshwater species, Daphnia magna, commonly filter feeding c...

In this paper, we study using Destination Artificial Noise (DAN) besides Source Artificial Noise (SAN) to enhance physical layer secrecy with an outage probability based approach. It is assumed that all nodes in the network (i.e. source, destination and eavesdropper) are equipped with multiple antennas. In addition, the eavesdropper is passive and its channel state and location are unknown at t...

This paper deals with the effect of fiber aspect ratio of steel fibers on shear strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete deep beams loaded with shear span to depth ratio less than two using the artificial neural network technique. The network model predicts reasonably good results when compared with the equation proposed by previous researchers. The parametric study invol...

Chloroplasts regulate their growth to optimize photosynthesis. Quantitative data show that the ratio of total chloroplast area to mesophyll cell area is constant across different cells within a single species and also across species. Wild-type chloroplasts exhibit little scatter around this trend; highly irregularly shaped mutant chloroplasts exhibit more scatter. Here we propose a model motiva...

Background Left atrial transit time (LATT) has potential to approximate left ventricular end diastolic pressure noninvasively. Small artifacts are often present in the down-slope portion of the time-intensity curve most likely due to poor SNR resulting from relatively low contrast dosing. While easily circumvented by experienced operator the artifact presents a challenge to automated detection ...