Dynamic distributed computing environments are composed by various entities, which, seeking for the maximization of their welfare while achieving their own goals and aims, may act selfishly, thus, leading to a significant deterioration of system’s performance. In general, system entities may be classified into two main categories: the Resource Requestors (RRs) wishing to use and/or exploit reso...

Twenty-five patients with solitary cold thyroid nodules (SCN) were studied by fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology, radionuclide perfusion scanning (RPS) and pentavalent technetium dimercaptosuccinic acid (99m Tc DMSA) scanning, with an aim to distinguish neoplastic from non-neoplastic nodules. All the patients were operated upon and the nodules were subjected to histopathological examination....

This paper proposes an approach to derive the Jacobian matrix of a hybrid mechanism by applying velocity operator transformation matrix. is capable deducing singularities, which cannot be identified using screw-based or velocity-based Jacobian. The was obtained based on algebraic geometry approach, and it becomes key point since used not only formulate matrix, but also define motion type mechan...

This dissertation is generally interested in policy and pollution-relevant questions within the field of environmental economics, focusing either on regulated firms' behavior or individuals' reactions. The first chapter focuses on one regulatory policy aimed at decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and its impact on the firm it is regulating. In order to increase the use of renewable energy for e...

Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (L2) acquisition after the critical period. In this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from Persian speaking learners of English as an L2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (RPs) as uniterpretable features. Unlike English which does not allow RPs, Persian shows various b...

Statistical modeling relies on a diverse range of statistical distributions, encompassing both univariate and multivariate distributions and/or discrete continuous distributions. In the literature, numerous methods have been proposed to approximate The most commonly used approach is use empirical distribution which obtained from random sample drawn distribution. However, it very likely that suf...

To the Editor: Quantitative analysis can now be performed on a panel of human salivary mRNAs identified as potential markers for oral cancer (1, 2). Translational and clinical applications of salivary transcriptome diagnostics require RNA degradation in saliva to be stopped at the time of collection and until analysis, preferably with room-temperature–compliant stabilization reagents. We compar...