In the near future, energy conservation and pollution reduction became two of the most significant factors in economic development and social circulate. For analyzing the issue, several models were applied involving the fields of mathematical optimization, economics theory, dynamics model and industrial management. Specifically, they are MARKAL model, Input-Output model, LEAP model and Systemic...

The storage and recovery of elastic strain energy in the musculoskeletal systems of locomoting animals has been extensively studied, yet the external environment represents a second potentially useful energy store that has often been neglected. Recent studies have highlighted the ability of orangutans to usefully recover energy from swaying trees to minimise the cost of gap crossing. Although m...

OBJECTIVE This study compared the 123I thyroid uptake measurements obtained from a gamma camera fitted with a low-energy all-purpose (LEAP) collimator to those obtained from a thyroid uptake probe and gamma camera fitted with a pinhole (PH) collimator. METHODS Thirty-one patients (27 female and 4 male patients) were studied for comparison between a probe and a gamma camera fitted with LEAP co...

abstract successful treatment of drug abusers is hard to achieve without the abusers’ taking part in counseling and group therapy interventions. the present study compared the effectiveness of two group interventions, i.e., life enrichment and enhancement program (leap) and reality therapy (rt) with a sham control on improving the abusers’ improvement indicators. participants (n = 30) were in-t...