The purpose of this study was to investigate total body norepinephrine (NE) kinetics as an index of global sympathetic nervous system (SNS) outflow in a rat model of chronic ANG II-salt hypertension. Male Sprague-Dawley rats fed a 0.4% (normal salt, NS) or 2% (HS) NaCl diet were instrumented with arterial and venous catheters. After 5 days of recovery and a 3-day control period, ANG II (150 ng....

Previous work has high classification accuracy when classifying music genres that are very different [1] (e.g. rock vs. pop, jazz vs. classical), but little machine learning research has been done to classify music by subgenres within a larger genre that describe temporally and stylistically similar music. In this paper, we apply machine learning to classify classical music by time period. To d...

The study explored the impact of Land Use and Cover (LULC) change dynamics in relation to condition status an unprotected wetland located arid-tropical parts Limpopo Province, South Africa. long-term Landsat archival data series was used map quantify impacts LULC on over a period 36 years (1983–2019). A multi-source satellite image analysis performed, using support vector machine (SVM) algorith...

during the time, land cover and as a result land use patterns go through fundamental changes and human factors can have the most important role in this process. knowing these changes could be of great help to the future management of this region. according to this, the main purpose of this study is to monitor the land use-cover changes in the hamedan province area during the three recent decade...

Sulfur (S) is a requisite part of the ruminant diet, but may sometimes be present in excess, leading to decreased animal performance and illness. In this experiment, 96 crossbred yearling steers (321 ± 29 kg BW) were used to determine the effects of dietary S concentration of a supplement fed to cattle on pasture and of the total diet in the finishing period. Steers were blocked by weight and a...

Based on the recent trade models of the Heterogeneous Firms Trade (HFT) model and the Quality Heterogeneous Firms Trade (QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia and China. However, the overlap o...

An excavation damage zone (EDZ) can be defined as a rock zone where the rock properties and conditions have been changed due to the processes related to an excavation. This zone affects the behavior of rock mass surrounding the construction that reduces the stability and safety factor and increase probability of failure of the structure. This paper presents an approach to build a model for the ...

introduction: ovako working posture analyzing system (owas) is a method for evaluating postural load during work. the owas method is based on a simple and systematic classification of work postures combined with observations of work tasks. the aim of this study was the assessment of various postures during the work in iron and steel industry, navard ahwas, using owas method. materials and metho...