Glass patterns--randomly positioned coherently orientated dipoles--create a strong sensation of oriented spatial structure. On the other hand, coherently oriented dipoles comprising dots of opposite polarity ("anti-Glass" patterns) have no distinct spatial structure and are very hard to distinguish from random noise. Although anti-Glass patterns have no obvious spatial structure themselves, the...

recently, lotfi et al. [10] established an equivalence model between the output-oriented dual ccr model and multiple objective linear programming (molp) and used an interactive method for finding target unit on efficiency frontier such that the decision maker preferences can be taken into account. however their method is not applicable for situations in which some outputs are undesirable and ne...

objectives: the purpose of the present study was to study the effects of hope-oriented group-couple- therapy on the increase of marital satisfaction among wives with addicted husbands. methods: the design of study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and a control group. population of the study included all wives with addicted husbands who volunteered to participate in the hope-orien...

cosmos caudatus is widely used as a traditional medicine in southeast asia. c. caudatus has been reported as a rich source of bioactive  compounds such as ascorbic acid, quercetin, and chlorogenic acid. studies have shown that c. caudatus exhibits high antioxidant capacity and various medicinal properties, including anti-diabetic activity, anti-hypertensive properties, anti-infl ammatory respon...

the the main objective of this research paper is to present 3-d elasticity solution for free vibration analysis of elastically supported continuously graded carbon nanotube-reinforced (cgcntr) annular plates. the volume fractions of oriented, straight single-walled carbon nanotubes (swcnts) are assumed to be graded in the thickness direction. an equivalent continuum model based on the eshelby-m...

where FA denotes the curvature of A. In four dimensions, FA decomposes into its self-dual and anti-self-dual components, FA = F + A + F − A , where F A denotes the projection onto the ±1 eigenspace of the Hodge star operator. A connection is called self-dual (respectively anti-self-dual) if FA = F + A (respectively FA = F − A ). A connection is called an instanton if it is either self-dual or a...