in this paper, iron ore sample from the chadormalu was investigated to determine some comminution properties. chadormalu deposit is one of the largest iron ore mine in iran, which is located in yazd province. the representative ore sample contained 57%fe, 0.9%p and 0.17%s. the sample was crushed; afterward, it was ground in various grinding times according to the bond ball mill approach to spec...

This paper reports two studies of chronic pain patients (n = 444) relevant to the psychometric properties of the Pain Disability Index (PDI), a self-report instrument that has been used to assess the degree to which chronic pain interferes with various daily activities. In the first study, patients with high PDI scores reported more psychological distress (P less than 0.001), more severe pain c...

The index coding capacity is investigated through its structural properties. First, the capacity is characterized in three new multiletter expressions involving the clique number, Shannon capacity, and Lovász theta function of the confusion graph, the latter notion introduced by Alon, Hassidim, Lubetzky, Stav, and Weinstein. The main idea is that every confusion graph can be decomposed into a s...

This work analyses theoretically, technologically and practically a class of low-loss single-mode optical fibers with ring refractive index profile. The fibers are considered for long distance signal transmission as well as photonic signal processing. Trunk transmission, ring index fibers have shifted and flattened dispersion characteristics and much larger effective area as compared with stand...

Absfrset. The notion of the Cauchy indexof a real rational scalar function is generalized todefinc the Cauchy index of a real rational symmetric matrix in terms of the behavior of the matrix at real singularities of its elements. Alternative characterizations are obtained which flow from iepresenrations of the real rational matrix using a Laurent series, a matrix fraction description. and a sta...

Purpose. To compare the properties of the visual field index (VFI) to those of mean deviation (MD) in patients with glaucoma. Methods. MD and VFI were calculated in data obtained from an ongoing longitudinal study in which patients with glaucoma (N = 109, 204 eyes) were observed for 9.8 years (median, 21 tests) with static automated perimetry. MD and VFI were compared in one test of each eye, a...