various industrial processes with a huge variety of products, materials and compounds create different kinds of pollution for human beings, so that the identification of environmental pollutants resulting from industrial units’ activities, especially in water resources seems necessary. the aim of this paper is to estimate the role of industrial units in contaminating water resources, through us...

Learning objects and repositories have been receiving more and more attention in the area of computer assisted language learning. The integration of learning object repositories into language programs presents both opportunities and challenges. This paper considers these as they arise specifically in conjunction with the development of an online collection of resources for teaching and learning...

Transmission electron microscopy imaging protocols required by structural scientists vary widely and can be laborious without tailor-made applications. We present here the jeol automated microscopy expert system (james) api integrator, a programming library for computer control of transmission electron microscopy operations and equipment. james has been implemented on JEOL microscopes with Gata...

Many software applications can, in principle, trade main memory consumption for other resources. For instance, garbage collected language runtimes can trade collection overhead for heap size, and many programs can improve their performance by caching data that was precomputed, read from disk or received from the network. Unfortunately, OSs provide little useful information about physical memory...

BACKGROUND Self care of diabetes is essential for control of disease and improvement of quality of patients' life. The aim of this study was to assess factors influencing self-care practice of patients in urban area of Urmia, Northwest of Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 400 diabetic patients were randomly selected from eight healthcare centers in Urmia City in 2010. Data collecti...