OBJECTIVE(S) The adverse effects of pyridaben on reproductive system in male animals are not well established. This study was designed to elucidate how pyridaben can effects the histomorphometric, hormonal alternations and reproductive functions of BALB/c mice. Materials and Methods : For this study, 80 adult and apparently healthy male BALB/c mice were divided into three groups Viz, control, t...

Most of the research concerning production systems is so far limited to the assessment of the steady-state throughput despite the impact of the parameter variability on the overall performance of such systems. In this paper, we propose an analytical model to assess the variance of the throughput of homogeneous transfer lines subject to operation-dependant failures. The transfer lines subject of...

Nowadays in solving control problems the processing is performed typically by model-based computer systems, which contain a representation of our knowledge about the nature and the actual circumstances of the problem in hand. If the nature and/or the actual circumstances change, the corresponding model should also be changed. Anytime techniques are very flexible in this respect and can advantag...

In this paper we present a preliminary predictive model for a key biomedical imaging application in the UK e-Science IXI (Information eXtraction from Images) project [1]. This code represents a significant challenge for our existing performance prediction tools as it has internal structures that exhibit highly variable runtimes depending on qualities in the input data provided. Since the runtim...

In recent decades, aging population of most advanced countries has increased sharply, and elderly health care has become economically a big social issue. One way to cope with this problem is to introduce various service robots such as an arm-wrestling robot proposed in the article into our daily lives, which are able to promote elderly health and to save elderly welfare cost. For successful exe...