Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a primary lung disease but as it advances, there is restriction in chest wall mobility which decreases pulmonary functions and vital capacity of lung. So purpose of this study is to assess the immediate effect of Chest Mobilization (CM) on improving the Chest Expansion (CE). Objective Of Study: To improve Chest Expansion in patients of...

This paper discusses the way that different operational characteristics including existing capacity, scale economies, and production policy have an important influence on the capacity outcomes when firms compete in the market place. We formulate a gametheoretical model where each firm has an existing capacity and faces both fixed and variable costs in purchasing additional capacity. Specificall...

The use of constant pressure (automatic) expansion valves as the metering device in vapor compression refrigeration cycles employed in air conditioning systems offer functional advantages which result in first cost and operating cost benefits to the manufacturers and users of air conditioning equipment. Operating performance is improved at typical application air temperature conditions and powe...

Due to increasing expansion of energy consumption and also the decrease and tendency towardsending fossil energy reserves, the current energy cycle needs to use alternative energy speciallywind energy, because it’s considerably cheaper than other recycling sources. The presentresearch investigates suitable possibility of exploiting wind energy to create wind power stationin Soltanieh zone of Za...

This paper presents a novel concept of "smart distribution system expansion planning (SDEP)" which expands the concept of demand response programs to be dealt with the long term horizon time. The proposed framework, integrates demand response resources (DRRs) as virtual distributed generation (VDG) resources into the distribution expansion planning. The main aim of this paper is to develop and ...

To test the hypothesis that auxin-binding protein 1 (ABP1) is a receptor controlling auxin-mediated plant cell expansion, ABP1 complementary DNAs were expressed in a controllable fashion in tobacco plants and constitutively in maize cell lines. Induction of Arabidopsis ABP1 expression in tobacco leaf strips resulted in an increased capacity for auxin-mediated cell expansion, whereas induction o...

Physical properties including magnetic susceptibility, room-temperature electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, and thermal expansion are reported for high quality single-crystal samples of marokite CaMn2O4. We determined that CaMn2O4 is highly electrically insulating and exhibits long-range antiferromagnetic order below TN=217.5 0.6 K with easy axis along a. Anisotropic th...

This paper considers the derivative of the entropy rate of a hidden Markov process with respect to the observation probabilities. The main result is a compact formula for the derivative that can be evaluated easily using Monte Carlo methods. It is applied to the problem of computing the capacity of a finite-state channel (FSC) and, in the high-noise regime, the formula has a simple closed-form ...

Volume 2, Issue 1 January February 2013 Page 186 Abstract: Reversible watermarking is broadly used in military and medical applications. In this paper we are presenting a novel pixel replacement method, whose watermark is robust to geometric attack as well as it has maximum embedding capacity than all histogram shifting methods. This idea is generated from histogram shifting method, a well know...

This paper establishes an approach to develop models for forecasting demand and evaluating policy scenarios related to planned capacity expansion for meeting optimistic and pessimistic future demand projections. A system dynamics framework is used to model and to generate scenarios because of their capability of representing physical and information flows, which will enable us to understand the...