Observations and Impacts. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and other southeastern Indian states suffered a deadly heat wave in late May and early June of 2015. Daily high temperatures exceeded 45°C in many places throughout India for several days in a row. In late June and early July, just a few weeks later, Pakistan also suffered from a deadly heat wave with similar daily high temperatures. Although...

It has long been agreed upon by the practitioners and researchers in the field of electric power market operations that both pricing and demand must play much more proactive roles in better balancing demands across the hours of the day. A balanced system will mitigate demand and price spikes and thereby reduce the need for expensive reserve generation capacity as well. Balanced demand will also...

A split plot factorial experiment in RCBD with 3 replications was performed in 2012-2013. Three sesame cultivars namely Biarjomand native, Dashtestan 2, and Darab 1 in the main plot were subjected to drought stress at different growth stages, i.e., control (full irrigation), withdrawing irrigation at 69 BBCH (end of flowering stage) and withdrawing irrigation at 79 BBCH (fully grown fruits). Tw...

In this study the effect of four levels of nitrogen fertilizer (0, 50, 100, 150) kg/ha and four levels of super phosphate triple (0, 50, 100, 150) kg/ha were investigated on Rubia Inctorum L. (madder) under salinity stress. A factorial experiment was carried out in a research farm in Roaddasht, Isfahan based on complete randomized blocks with three replications. The results of the variance anal...

In order to study the impact of drought stress and planting date on safflower yield and yield components, an experiment was performed in Tabriz region in 2011. The experiment was carried out as split-split plot based on randomized complete block design. The main factor which was applied as split plot includes drought stress  with three levels:  (S1) 80 ± 3 mm evaporation from basin level of cla...

During the last years, organizational performance of manufacturing organizations is considered to be a key for a country’s economy. As a result of high positive performance of manufacturing organization; the overall effects on the society have attributed the attention and the interest of organisational researchers. Armstrong and Baron (2003) highlighted the need of performance management as bei...

background CT scans are heavily relied on for assessment of solid organ injuries complementing clinical examination. These CT scans could also reveal pathologies not related to trauma called incidental findings. We aimed to evaluate the frequency of these findings and their outcome on hospital services. Methods A retrospective chart review of prospectively collected data of the emergency depart...

We demonstrate a 67 GHz bandwidth silicon-contacted germanium waveguide p-i-n photodetector operating at -1 V with 6.8 fF capacitance. The dark current is below 4 nA. The responsivity is 0.74 A/W at 1550 nm and 0.93 A/W at 1310 nm wavelength. 56 Gbps on-off-keying data reception is demonstrated with clear open eye diagrams in both the Cband and O-band. 2015 Optical Society of America OCIS code...

In the rational development of new strategies for the crystal engineering of coordination networks[1] and of metal-based supramolecular architectures[2] the use of predetermined building blocks has assumed an increasing relevance in recent times. For example, molecular corners containing transition metals with programmed coordination angles, such as cisprotected PdII and PtII square-planar comp...

This issue contains 10 papers. In the first paper, Diego Mazala and Claudio Esperança, from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Ricardo Marroquim, Delft University of Technology Netherlands, present a novel method for blending human faces order to create new one. nutshell, their proposal uses Laplacian smoothing segregate layers details one or more faces, which are then integrated...