Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia in occidental countries. The majority of the cases develop the disease for no genetic reasons; therefore, it is crucial to establish which environmental factors trigger the development of the disease. It has been proposed that nutritional habits, especially main components of Western countries’ diet such as saturated fat or cholesterol, in...

(International Programme on Chemical Safety 2002). Over the past decade there have been significant advances in our understanding of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs): their numbers, mechanisms of action, biological effects, and impacts on human and wildlife health. First, as described in the new report (WHO/UNEP 2013), the convergence of wildlife, laboratory animal, and epidemiology data s...

Service robot technology is progressing at a fast pace. Accurate robot-friendly indoor localization and harmonization of built environ-ment in alignment with digital, physical, social environment becomes emphasized. This paper proposes the novel approach Robot Compatible Environment (RCE) within architectural space. Evolution service robotics connection civil engineering architecture discussed,...

Environmental indicators can be used as a first stage in progress towards comprehensive environmental impact measures [J. Environ. Manage 65/3 (2002) 285]. In this article, we develop a 'pollutant interaction matrix method' that allows calculation of a global environmental protection index (Ep) in order to verify the eco-compatibility of an industrial activity. Two methods are proposed for the ...

A recent publication in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by Chari et al. [1] provides no basis for changing the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for lead in the U.S. to protect children in low socio-economic (SES) populations. The studies selected by Chari et al. for analysis do not provide comparable information on regression coefficients for the b...

Hungarian scientist Herman Vamberini (1832-1913) was known to the world scientific and literary community as a renowned philologist, orientalist, traveler writer. His works attracted attention of Turko- logists, orientalists, linguists translators. A native Hungary member various European organizations, life activities H. Vamberi are very interesting. He lived in Istanbul from 1857 1860 studied...

Millions of individuals in our nation’s rural and urban regions have access to work prospects thanks the handloom, a traditional industry India. The handloom business has suffered since modernization. creations new technology capitalist rule, decline salaries, rise price yarn, as well other issues, are concerns. This current study is mainly textual. significant marketing related challenges. In ...

Definition  Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) refers to an environ ment where execution threads operate speculatively,  performing potentially unsafe operations, and tem porarily buffering the state they generate in a buffer or  cache. At a certain point, the operations of a thread are  declared to be correct or incorrect. If they are correct,  the thread commits, merging the state i...

Metastasis of neoplasms is a complex process involving several steps. First, is the separation of cells from the main tumor; then follow invasion of a vessel, transport, arrest, penetration of the ves sel wall, and, finally, establishment and growth in the new site with new stroma and vascular supply. Some aspects of this process have been discussed in recent papers from this laboratory: (a) th...

Absolute auctions, i.e. auctions with a zero public reserve price, and auctions withsecret reserve prices are frequently used by various auction sites. However, it is hardto find a rationale for these formats. By introducing the possibility that buyers differin their understanding of how the participation rate varies with the auction format,and how reserve prices are distributed...