measuring salinity of water at different depths along six transacts at the mouth of the wetland and along five tributaries connecting the wetland to the sea the extent of caspian sea penetration into anzali wetland was determined. the results demonstrated a depth-dependent salinity gradient extending up to 10 kilometres into the wetland. a pattern of saltwater and freshwater interface is presen...

This study examined relations among neighborhood disadvantage, parent-child conflict, deviant peer involvement in the neighborhood, and early-starting antisocial trajectories. Antisocial group patterns were identified in 218 low-income boys followed from ages 5 to 11, and neighborhood and family variables were evaluated as predictors in early and middle childhood. Four trajectory groups emerged...

conclusions results show that trigger point injection therapy in patients suffering from chronic lumbosacral radiculopathy with trigger points can significantly improve their recovery, and conservative therapy may not be adequate. results out of 98 patients, 64 had trigger points. thirty-two patients were assigned to each group. pain scores (mean ± sd) in tp group was 7.12 ± 1.13 and in n group...

Although neighborhood stressors have a negative impact on youth, and social support can play a protective role, it is unclear what types and sources of social support may contribute to positive outcomes among at-risk youth. We examined the influences of neighborhood disadvantage and social support on global self-worth among low-income, urban African American youth, both concurrently and longitu...

We address the “freeform optics” inverse problem of designing a reflector surface mapping prescribed source distribution light to far-field distribution, for finite source. When reduces point source, has support only on optics ray directions. In this setting, is well-posed arbitrary and target probability distributions. It can be recast as an Optimal Transportation been studied both mathematica...

Two studies examined how the relevance of group identity influences two psychological mechanisms of collective action: Emotion- and problem-focused coping with collective disadvantage. Extending Van Zomeren, Spears, Fischer, and Leach's (2004) integrative theoretical model of coping with collective disadvantage, we predicted that when group identity is more relevant to disadvantaged group membe...

The paper shall demonstrate how concentrated source terms can be included by Delta functions in models with distributed parameters and, moreover, that the abstraction of sharply concentrated quantities leads to decisive numeric advantages. The system of differential equations loses its stiffness here at the method of lines. The eigenvalues of the Jacobian matrix (A-matrix) show that it becomes ...