Human stress is a physiological tension that appears when a person responds to mental, emotional, or physical chal-lenges. Detecting human stress and developing methods to manage it, has become an important issue nowadays. Au-tomatic stress detection through physiological signals may be a useful method for solving this problem. In most of the earlier studies, long-term time window was considere...

We have developed a femtosecond time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy by the optical Kerr-gate ~OKG! method to investigate ultrafast carrier dynamics and relaxation processes of materials. Solid glasses with a high nonlinear refractive index were used as the Kerr media to obtain a subpicosecond time resolution. When a quartz plate was used as the Kerr medium, the Kerr efficiency and the instr...

periodontal ligament is a thin layer of soft tissue that connects root of a tooth to the surrounding alveolar bone. these ligaments play an important role in initiating tooth movement when loads are applied to teeth with orthodontic appliances. the majority of such soft tissues exhibit as viscoelastic bodies or have a time-dependent behavior. due to the viscoelastic behavior of the periodontal ...

background: fatigue is one of the important factors in nursing performance because it affects the quality of care provided to the patients. in this regard, some complementary interventions such as benson relaxation techniques may relieve fatigue. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of benson relaxation on fatigue of nurses working in intensive care units. methods: this is an experimental st...

functional response of the female ladybeetle, hippodamia variegata (goeze) (col., coccinellidae) to varying densities (5, 10, 20, 40, 60 and 80) of third instar nymphs of aphis gossypii glover was assessed in a growth chamber (25˚c, 65± ­5% rh and a photoperiod of 16l: 8d h), on the black eyed bean, vigna unguiculata (l.), in an open patch design. the logistic regression showed a type ii functi...