in western countries there is a growing incidence in obesity, inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) and colorectal cancer (crc), which places an increasingly important burden on the health care system. in the current decade, changes in intestinal microflora (i.e., dysbiosis) are likely the result of environment factors such as food, lifestyle, and medications which have been shown in obesity and ibd...

Ubiquitous computing aims for the realisation of environments that assist users autonomously and proactively in a non-distractive manner. Therefore smart environment infrastructures need to be able to identify users needs (intention recognition) and to plan an appropriate assisting strategy (strategy generation) without explicit user interaction. In our two-stage approach we address inferring t...

in order to analyze general and specific combining abilities and gene effects in sunflower for some agronomic traits, five cms lines and four restorer lines (tester) were crossed in a line × tester scheme. hybrids were evaluated in a randomized complete block design with three replications in the agriculture research station, university of tabriz, in 2009 and 2010 growing seasons. plant height,...

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studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...

the growth in the number and quality of businesses caused many positive results for societies. but it can potentially bring some unfavorable effects to their environment. although there issued many different definitions of social responsibility, there is lack of consensus among scholars about its definition. aside from its different and sometimes paradoxical definitions, corporate social capita...