Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

in this research, the charged system search (css) and enhanced charged system search (ecss) algorithm are used to obtain the optimum design of irregular grillage systems with different spacing and various boundary conditions. the cross-sectional properties of the beams are selected as the design variables and the weight of structure is used as the objective function. the displacement limitation...

Cognitive errors (CE) and coping strategies (CS) are the focus of most cognitive-behavioral treatments for incarcerated child molesters. Several studies have reported differences in CEs and CSs between child molesters and controls. However, the vast majority of these studies assessed cognitive errors and coping using questionnaires, which are known to present a number of important limitations. ...

In this study, we aimed to develop and validate nomograms for predicting long-term overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) in major salivary gland cancer (MSGC) patients. These nomograms were developed using a retrospective cohort (N=4218) from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, and externally validated using an independent data cohort (N=244). We ...

We use affine variety codes and their subfield-subcodes for obtaining quantum stabilizer codes via the CSS code construction. With this procedure we get codes with good parameters, some of them exceeding the quantum Gilbert-Varshamov bound given by Feng and Ma.

background: endotracheal suctioning (ets) is one of the most common supportive measures in intensive care units (icu). ets may be associated with complications including hypoxia and tachycardia. closed system suctioning (css) decreases the rate of cardiorespiratory complication mainly due to continuation of ventilatory support and oxygenation during procedure. css has questionable efficacy, the...

A charged system search algorithm (CSS) is applied to the optimal cost design of water distribution networks. This algorithm is inspired by the Coulomb and Gauss’s laws of electrostatics in physics. The CSS utilizes a number of charged particles which influence each other based on their fitness values and their separation distances considering the governing law of Coulomb. The well-known benchm...

In this paper, we analyze the performance of an energy harvesting (EH)-assisted overlay cognitive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. The underlying system consists a primary transmitter-receiver pair accompanied by energy-constrained secondary transmitter (ST) with its intended receiver. Accordingly, ST employs time switching (TS) based receiver architecture to harvest from radio-fre...