Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a new emerging infectious disease that was firstly detected in the Middle East[1-3]. The infection was firstly confined within the Middle East. The first case was from Saudi Arabia in 2012. As noted by Banik et al.[4], since its discovery in 2012, MERS coronavirus has reached 23 countries affecting about 1 100 people, including a dozen children, and cl...

Previous research into rape victim blaming has often neglected to assess attitudes toward male victims. The present study was designed to redress this imbalance and specifically, investigate the role of homophobic attitudes in male rape victim perception. Men and women read a vignette describing an incident of rape and answered two questionnaires that assessed firstly, homophobic attitudes towa...

Manipulating and stretching single pectin molecules offer convenience to determine the chain lengths and further illustrate the action between pectins and other macromolecules. Pectin molecules on mica surfaces, which were imaged in air with atomic force microscopy (AFM), can be aligned and stretched through applying modified molecular combing and fluid fixation techniques. Modified molecular c...

The huge damage of denial of service attacks in security protocols attracts researchers’ attention and effort to analysis, verification and prevention of denial of service attacks. In order to model resistance of denial of service attacks, firstly, we extend applied pi calculus from both adversary context and processes aspects; secondly, the first computer-aided method of resistance of denial o...

On the basis of the cluster validity function based on geometric probability in literature [1, 2], propose a cluster analysis method based on geometric probability to process large amount of data in rectangular area. The basic idea is top-down stepwise refinement, firstly categories then subcategories. On all clustering levels, use the cluster validity function based on geometric probability fi...

A novel motion retrieval approach based on statistical learning and Bayesian fusion is presented. The approach includes two primary stages. (1) In the learning stage, fuzzy clustering is utilized firstly to get the representative frames of motions, and the gesture features of the motions are extracted to build a motion feature database. Based on the motion feature database and statistical learn...

This article deals with the different classes of convexity and generalizations. Firstly, we reveal the new generalization of the definition of convexity that can reduce many order of convexity. We have showed features of algebra for this new convex function. Then after we have constituted Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for this class of functions. Finally the identity has been revealed for ...

About 170 species have been assigned to the New World genus Ochrotrichia, only two of which were previously recorded from Brazil. Material collected in Bahia and Ceará states represent the first records of this genus from Northeastern Brazil and reveal five new species of Ochrotrichia. These are described and illustrated in this paper: O. caatinga sp. nov. (O. aldama group, from Ceará), O. pria...

This paper reflects on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) at Construction Youth Trust (the Trust) with London South Bank University (LSBU) that aims to provide the Trust with a comprehensive and internal process that will result in Social Return on Investment (SROI) being embedded within the organisation. The aims of this paper are twofold, firstly to examine the development and growth of K...

The stable yellow nanosilver (AgNP) and blue nanosilver (AgNPB) sols were prepared by the NaBH4 procedure. The new nanocatalytic reaction of AgNP-NaCl-H2O2 was investigated by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) absorption, resonance Rayleigh scattering (RRS), surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) techniques. The autocatalytic oxidization of Ag on AgNP surf...