I n a world that has become acutely aware of the environmental impact of energy consumption resulting in global warming, and the increasing financial burden of oil after the price spiked this past July to US$145 per barrel, energy conservation has become a hot topic. This is an opportunity for pervasive computing to play an important role in conserving our planetary resources and moving us towa...

Precipitation hardening, because it involves the hardening of the material over a prolonged time, is also called age hardening, or ageing. By the appropriate heat treatment of precipitation hardening, the strength or hardness of some heat-treatable aluminium alloys can be enhanced by the formation of nano-meter sized second-phase precipitated particles within the original phase matrix. The fine...

Purpose : Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a relatively uncommon superficial blistering skin disease that is due to Staphylococcus aureus. We had experienced a regional outbreak of SSSS over 3 years in healthy children. Methods : We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of those patients diagnosed as SSSS. Most of neonatal cases were nosocomial infections and excluded from ...

This paper is an introduction to the the study of constrained geometric structures. The motion and rigidity of frameworks of rods and joints is examined, and connections are drawn to other constrained structures that are useful in many applications, in particular to Computer Aided Design. 1. The geometry of frameworks Mathematical applications, beyond increasing our understanding of the world, ...

The payment system is a mechanism which enables cash-transfer (electronically) from one account to another regardless the location of the holding branch of each account. An integrated payment system covers all the inter-banking payments in a synchronized and continuous structure, and includes Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS), Automatic Clearing House (ACH), and the Scrip less Securities...

We use numerical simulations to calculate the cosmic microwave background anisotropy induced by the evolution of a global texture eld, with special emphasis on individual textures. Both spherically symmetric and general conngurations are analysed, and in the latter case we consider eld conngurations which exhibit unwinding events and also ones which do not. We compare the results given by evolv...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic performance evaluation. the population of the study included faculty members of the university of urmia in 1391. to select a sample, stratified random sampling method was used while considering the proportions. in total, 200 people were selected. the study was of descriptive - correlatio...

releasing of textile dye effluents into general water bodies is a major environmental and healthproblem. color removal, in particular, has recently become of major scientific interest, as indicated by themultitude of related research reports. during the past two decades, several physico-chemical decolorizationtechniques have been reported, few, however, have been accepted by the textile industr...