This report describes a man versus man semiconductor laser weapon fire simulation system that eliminates the requirement that the trainee wear on his body numerous laser detectors that impede his motion and are subject to damage. The system utilizes retroreflective material and two transmitted eyesafe laser beams. The first beam, when reflected, ascertains a hit and the second broad beam commun...

nursing manpower plays a key role in the quality of care and health promotion. so considering efficient and qualified nursing units is necessary for any health care organization without which they can’t survive long. this study was aimed to estimate the nursing manpower required by the imam khomeini and razi hospitals affiliated with jundishapur university of medical sciences in accordance with...

The discourses of Antillanité and Créolité are both based on the absence of women. This is more important in the discourse of Créolité since it silences the grandmothers, great aunts and village midwives who are the transmitters of folk tales, folk medicines and oral culture. In the struggle for recognition between Caribbean males and western males folk medicine may be too closely associated wi...

The most widely used one-dimensional (1D) carbonaceous nanomaterials in tissue engineering are carbon nanotubes, either single or multiwalled. Other forms of 1D nanomaterials, such as nanowires and nanofibers, have been less explored for biomedical applications. Herein, we synthesized 1D-activated nanofiber nanoparticles (ACNF NPs) from the polyacrylonitrile electrospun nanofibers by continuous...

BACKGROUND Two novel mammalian targets of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitors everolimus and temsirolimus are now approved by regulatory agencies and have been widely investigated among various types of solid tumors, but the risk of fatal adverse events (FAEs) with these drugs is not well defined. METHODS We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane library databases for relevant trials. Eligible studies...

How well parameterization will improve gross primary production (GPP) estimation using the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) algorithm has been rarely investigated. We adjusted the parameters in the algorithm for 21 selected eddy-covariance flux towers which represented nine typical plant functional types (PFTs). We then compared these estimates of the MOD17A2 product, by th...

The lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis IFPL105 secretes a broad spectrum bacteriocin produced from the 46 kb plasmid pBAC105. The bacteriocin was purified to homogeneity by ionic and hydrophobic exchange and reverse-phase chromatography. Bacteriocin activity required the complementary action of two distinct peptides (alpha and beta) with average molecular masses of 3322 and 2848 Da, respe...

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