the aim of this study is comparison of soil characteristics and biodiversity in plantation of bald cypress and caucasian alder forest stands in kludeh region (mazandaran province). in order to study biodiversity in forest stands and control region, 10 sample plots (releve) were selected and the name and abundance of plant species of the forest floor were recorded. biodiversity of herbal plants ...

s S62 strength in the arms (pulls self to stand: 72% vs 47%) and legs (bears weight on legs: 79% vs 66%). Results were similar when patients from Taiwan, who may have been identifi ed by newborn screening and not clinical diagnosis, were excluded. Earlier initiation of ERT in classic IOPD patients appears to improve the chances of survival and leads to better retention of muscle strength and im...

In this paper, we introduce an approach to improve the recognition performance of a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based monophone recognizer using Support Vector Machines (SVMs). We developed and examined a method for re-scoring the HMM recognizer hypotheses by SVMs in a phoneme recognition framework. Compared to a stand-alone HMM system, an improvement of 9.2% was reached on the TIMIT database and...

Cold rolling process is a complicated process which can be optimized by changing in variables and settings. This paper presents a set-up optimization system developed to calculate reductions and inter-stand tensions for each stand of a five stand tandem cold mill. The main objective in this optimization is minimization of power consumption. First, by using the analytical method, the equations ...

Using the example of Taking a Stand in Cyberspace, we articulate issues confronting school, community, and higher education groups as they create online discussions geared to deepen the level of student discourse about literature. Through a collaboration between the Vermont Center for the Book, the WEB Project, and six Vermont schools, students read and discussed three books while teachers main...

Establishing and Trafficking New Bentgrass Putting Greens Golf turf managers are pressured from the golfing community to reduce the establishment time of playing surfaces. To this end, accelerated grow-in procedures are implemented that eventually permit play on surfaces that are less than prepared to receive traffic. Research hassuggested that accelerated grow-in procedures and premature traff...

Many of the concepts that govern legal regime for fulfilment public procurement agreements are endowed with a degree precision which clearly stand improvement. The work analyses employment thereof through two recent Supreme Court judgments as well therein certain figure economic equilibrium, is considered dismissible.

This study compared the solar energy utilization of a closed microalgae-based bio-loop for energy efficient production of biogas with fertilizer recovery against that of a stand-alone photovoltaic (PV) system. The comparison was made from the perspective of broad life cycle assessment, simultaneously taking exergy to be the functional unit. The results indicated that the bio-loop was more envir...

Using the example of Taking a Stand in Cyberspace , we art iculate i s sues confront ing school , community, and higher education groups as they create onl ine discuss ions geared to deepen the leve l of s tudent discourse about l i terature. Through a col laboration between the Vermont Center for the Book, the WEB Project , and six Vermont schools , students read and discussed three books whi ...

This research explored the balance benefits to untrained older adults of participating in community-based resistance and flexibility programs. In a blinded randomized crossover trial, 32 older adults (M = 66.9 yr) participated in a resistance-exercise program and a flexibility-exercise program for 16 weeks each. Sway velocity and mediolateral sway range were recorded. Timed up-and-go, 10 times ...