Three strains of facultatively anaerobic thermotolerant and moderately halophilic bacteria were isolated from two Jordanian hot spring locations. The novel Bacillus strains were short rods, Gram-positive, motile and spore formers. The strains were capable of anaerobic (but not aerobic) growth at 63C, moderately halophilic, able to grow at NaCl concentration range of 12 15 % and at temperatures ...

Face recognition is important in human identification. The biological recognition technique acts as a good method and broad applications in security areas. This work presents a method to improve the face recognition accuracy using a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Wavelet Transform. Wavelet Transform is used to decompose the input image with different levels and rearrange...

Sometime between 18 March and 16 April 108 BCE, Senmouthis daughter of Dryton, her sisters, Senminis Stotoetis paid the tax on their pigeon house. The Turin demotic ostracon Suppl. 12791 (P. Dryton 54 descr. = TM 44876) is receipt payment drawn up by Patseous son Pates. text was already available to scholarly community in a first translation. present work provides transliteration, photos facsim...