In this paper, we present a data ow based unit testing approa h and its tool support for aspe t-oriented software. Our approa h tests two types of units for an aspe t-oriented program, i.e., aspe ts that are modular units of ross utting implementation of the program, and those lasses whose behaviors may be a e ted by one or more aspe ts. We use the ontrol ow graph as a basis to ompute def-use p...

Recent studies on binary masking techniques make the assumption that each time-frequency (T-F) unit contributes an equal amount to the overall intelligibility of speech. The present study demonstrated that the importance of each T-F unit to speech intelligibility varies in accordance with speech content. Specifically, T-F units are categorized into two classes, speech-present T-F units and spee...

Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease can be prevented by treating cellular blood products with y irradiation. A wide range of y irradiation dose levels has been used in routine practice. We used limiting dilution analysis, which measures clonable T cells, to assess the influence of 500 to 3,000 cGy of y irradiation delivered from a 137Cs source on T cells when delivered in situ to A...

Abstract The increasing importance of the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) has led to research on linguistic characteristics its levels, as this would help application CEFR in design teaching materials, courses, and assessments. This study investigated whether levels can be distinguished with reference syntactic complexity (SC). 14- 17-year-old Finnish learners English (N=397) wrote t...

We consider a variation of the classical nonpreemptive open-shop scheduling problem. For the normal open shop, finding whether a schedule exists in T time units is NP-complete [2]. The main difference with the classical model is that we will consider so-called periodical or cyclic schedules; this means that the schedule obtained is repeated periodically. If the length of a period is k time unit...

We have standardized the measurement of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) activity in plasma. One-chain tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA; EC 3.4.21.31; final activity, 5 int. units/mL) was incubated with plasma (final dilutions 1:4 to 1:40) in phosphate buffer (pH 7.4, ionic strength = 0.15) for 15 min at 37 degrees C, followed by acidification and measurement of residual t-...

The aim of the present study is to enhance performance a microbial fuel cell (MFC) design by making simple interventions. Specifically, terracotta “t” and mullite “m” ceramics are tested as membranes while carbon veil cloth used electrodes. In case cylinders different dimensions examined (m: ID 30 mm x height 11.5 mm; sm: 18 mm). units operated continuously with urine feedstock. best performing...

Different species of Trichoderma especially T. harzianum (Th2 biotype in Europe and Th4 in America) considered as causal agent of green mould disease on button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) casing beds. In this study, 100 fungal isolates were collected and purified from different mushroom growing units in Tehran province and Urmia (NW Iran). Totally, 60 isolates of T. harzianum, 27 isolates of T...

background: red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. we aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

background: nowadays, many organizations such as hospitals have realized that utilization of quality management models and systems is the best way for them to compete, survive and develop. therefore, 5s (sorting, straightening, systematic cleaning, standardizing, and sustaining) model was implemented in three units of imam reza hospital (kermanshah, iran) including medical records, nutrition, a...