August 2011
The mechanism of reproduction and hormonal function in finfish species: A review
The number of aquatic species currently under domestication efforts is rising rapidly, due to the development of commercial aquaculture. For domestication and the establishment of a sustainable aquaculture industry, the control reproduction processes of fish in captivity, and to acquire high quality seed, is necessary. The fish reproductive cycle is separated in gametogenesis (of growth) and oocyte maturation and...
August 2011
Use of the internet by breast cancer patients
This article reports on the literature associated with Internet use by breast cancer patients. Reviewing the literature indicates that breast cancer patients can use the Internet as a source of information, social support, shared experience, empowerment, positive role models, professional support and patient advocacy. Also, studies reveal that a number of factors such as patients’ personal characteristics,...
August 2011
Nutritional status of forage plants and their use by elephant in Waza national park, Cameroon
We studied the utilization pattern of wild plant species by elephants in relation to their nutritive values in order to provide insight into crop raiding events by the animal in the Waza region. Elephants were selective for food plants in the wilderness. Out of 45 recorded plant species, only 20 plant species were found to be utilized either fully or partially as evident by branch breaking, debarking, and...
August 2011
Genetic programming approach for testing credit risk box method
In this paper, Genetic Programming (GP) technique is applied to the empirical analysis of a new geometric approach of credit risk, financial ratios and bankruptcy prediction. Utilizing financial ratios for prediction of corporate bankruptcy and identification of firms’ impending failure is indeed desirable for investors, creditors, borrowing firms, and governments. This paper presents new geometric technique for...
August 2011
Effect of pressure on burst and leakage in drinking water network
Water distribution systems and failure to prevent the formation of burst are studied. Bursts occur in distribution systems because of poor workmanship and material defects, traffic load, rupture from earthquake, soil corrosion and high pressure. Planning stage creates negative effects due to pressure. To eliminate pressure on the network, average of 30 to 60 and 20 to 80 mws should be applied critically. However, in...
August 2011
Suppressing dissolved hydrogen sulfide in a sewer network using chemical methods
Corrosion process and odor emission concerns caused by H2S are a constant focus for many sewage system municipalities, usually from the first day of system operation. This study investigates the effect of several chemicals on prohibition of H2S generation in sewage, where reagents were applied either individually or in combinations. Various concentrations of calcium peroxide, calcium hypochlorite, magnesium hydroxide,...
August 2011
Variability of CODG TEC and IRI 2001 total electron content (TEC) during IHY campaign period (21 March to 16 April 2008) at Niamey under different geomagnetic activity conditions
IRI 2001 model prediction is compared to custom orthotic design group total electron content (CODG TEC) maps prediction at Niamey during several geomagnetic (quiet, fluctuating and shock days) conditions for the period of IHY campaign. Independently of geomagnetic conditions, the qualitative comparison between CODG TEC maps and IRI 2001 TEC shows the overestimation of IRI 2001 model. The overestimation of...
August 2011
Effect of different organic fertilizers on yield and fruit quality of ındeterminate tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of different organic fertilizers on yield and fruit qualities of indeterminate tomato. Influences of different organic and inorganic fertilizers on yields and fruit qualitiy of tomato were compared during 2006 and 2007 growing periods under field conditions. In 2006 growing period, organic fertilizes used were Ormin K (250 kg/ha before planting; 30 kg/ha after...
August 2011
Design of permanent greenhouse structure by pultruded glass reinforced plastic
Research activities have been taking on place in many ports of the world to develop or produce new greenhouse construction materials in order to grow more economic agricultural products. One of the new technological materials is the glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) materials. GFRP materials are basically constituted of resin and continuous or chopped fiber and they are manufactured by using various manufacturing...
August 2011
ITTDG: Integrated T-way test data generation strategy for interaction testing
In the last 20 years, software has grown tremendously in terms of size (that is, line of codes (LOCs), and functionalities). With the increase in LOCs and functionalities, more and more unwanted interactions amongst software systems, hardware components, and operating systems are to be expected, rendering increased possibility of faults. While traditional static and dynamic testing strategies are useful for fault...
August 2011
An integrated graphical user interface for pavement deterioration modeling
Flexible pavements deteriorate under traffic loads and climate effects. In this study, an integrated graphical user interface was developed to model, analyze and predict future pavement deterioration in highways. State highways in Turkey were chosen as a case study. Alarge database was built and connected to a user interface. This database included climate data obtained from the State Meteorological Service, traffic...
August 2011
The alteration effects of environmental conditions on ancient Selçuk bricks used in historical buildings of Konya, Central Turkey
In this study the damaging effects of environmental conditions on ancient bricks that have survived from the time of the Seljuk Empire were investigated. A systematic chemical examination of the weathered bricks and their crusts from the Aksinne small mosque in Konya, Turkey, was performed on collected samples, both in situ and in a laboratory. This study shows that ancient bricks in different colors are...
August 2011
Effects of tillage on bulk density and soil moisture content in wheat-fallow rotation under dry conditions
In the arid and semi arid region of Iran, conventional tillage is mainly used(Moldboard plowing followed by two disc harrowing) for wheat production. Such a tillage system requires a high energy input and may also cause water loss and long-term soil physical degradation. This field study was conducted under dry conditions to determine whether or not the reduced tillage systems altered the bulk density and soil moisture...
August 2011
Modelling of physical slot parameters with Artificial Neural Networks for U-slot rectangular microstrip patch antennas
In this study, slot length and slot width physical parameters that calculated theoretically before on U-slot rectangular microstrip antennas are calculated with two different ‘artificial neural network’ models then using experimental slot parameters in the literature. The aim of the first model is presenting an approach for calculation of U-slot physical parameters obtained theoretically, with...
August 2011
Factors of land use/cover change: A case study from Turkey
Land use/cover change impacts ecosystem services and functions such as forest health, biodiversity, and water production. Monitoring and assessing land use/cover changes provides an effective and accurate evaluation of human impact on the forest ecosystems. This study aims to determine spatial and temporal changes in land use/cover at a particular time period in a typical forest ecosystem of Turkey using geographical...
August 2011
The effects of water stress, manure and chemical fertilizer on grain yield and grain nutrient content in barley
Barley is a cool-weather cereal grain primarily produced on dryland farms in Sistan region. In order to study the effect of different proportions of manure and chemical fertilizer and water stress on grain yield and grain nutrient content in barley an experiment was conducted as split plot randomized complete block design with three replications in research field of Zabol University, 2009. Water stress treatments...
August 2011
A filter based fisher g-test approach for periodicity detection in time series analysis
Periodicity is an interesting property of many time series data sets. A period can be defined as a self repeating pattern. This pattern provides useful information about the inherent structure in cyclic data set. In this paper, a filter based Fisher g-test approach is introduced. The filtering approach is based on the singular spectrum analysis. The power and running time of the proposed filter based approach are...
August 2011
Relationship of HPVL1 and p16 expression with different cervical lesions
p16 is a tumor suppressor protein and also a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor and HPV-L1 (L1) is a capsidic protein that is expressed in the early, productive phase of cervical carcinogenesis. To provide evidence for the evaluation of endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), the expressions of p16 and HPVL1 in different cervical diseases were determined and their relationship was explored....
August 2011
Localized job scheduling system using cooperative and system-centric scheduling policy for market-oriented grids
In grid scheduling systems, a major challenge is to manage the consumers’ job based on their Quality of Service (QoS) and provider nodes’ satisfaction. Most of the capable job scheduling polices operate on the basis of meta-scheduling systems that may result in a complex management with overcrowding probability in market-oriented grids. Therefore, the need for an efficient job scheduling algorithm based...
August 2011
Place recognition using semantic concepts of visual words
Applying the ‘bag-of-visual-words’ has recently become popular for image understanding. Although, using the histogram of visual words suffers the problem when the patches of an image faced with similar appearance corresponding to differentiate semantic concepts and vice versa. Due to varying views and dynamic objects, this problem is more complicated in the mobile robot applications such as global...
August 2011
Effect of zinc toxicity on liver histology of Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus
In the present study the toxic effects of zinc (Zn) on the liver structure of Nile tilapia,Oreochromis niloticus were investigated. Additionally, we estimated whether Zn concentration and exposure period influence the degree and nature of histological changes in the liver of exposed fish. Two hundred and forty fish (the average weight was 24.30± 2.85 g) were distributed randomly in twenty four glass aquaria...
August 2011
Dynamic observation of penile hemodynamic change in patients with vasculogenic erectile dysfunction after prostaglandin E1 treatment
To dynamically observe the hemodynamic features in different subtypes of vasculogenic ED after intracavernous injection of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1). 358 of ED patients were involved in this study, including 119 psychogenic ED, 75 arteriogenic ED, 78 venogenic ED, 54 mingle vasculogenic ED and 32 other causes ED. For all of these ED patients, intracavernous injection of 10 μg PGE1 was used to induce penile...
August 2011
Effects of partial rootzone drying and conventional deficit irrigation on yield and quality parameters of “Williams Pride†apple cultivar drafted on M9 rootstock
Fruit yield and quality of 4 year old “Williams Pride” apple trees on M9 rootstock under partial rootzone drying (PRD) were studied over 2 years. Irrigation treatments were control irrigation (CI), conventional deficit irrigation (DI), and two different partial rootzone drying (PRDI and PRDII). In PRD, irrigation water was applied alternately on one side of the tree’s rows and the other side was not...
August 2011
Conceptual framework and research method for personality traits and sales force automation usage
This study began with an extensive literature review combined with a quantitative study and personality trait testing and involves the medical sales representatives of several multinational pharmaceutical companies which are members of the Taiwan Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management Association (TPMMA). Their sales forces range from 50 to 200 and all used automation systems in their daily sales operation. These...
August 2011
An investigation on hybrid studio format applied in introductory calculus-based physics
The purpose of this study is to ascertain the performances and perceptions of the students in Hybrid Studio Format (HSF). This format retains the large lecture component but combines recitation and laboratory instruction into Studio Physics. In this research, ‘problem solving strategy’ and ‘attitudes toward problem solving surveys’ were administered by pre/post-test to evaluate students’...
August 2011
Phenolic compounds and physiochemical analysis of Physalis ixocarpa genotypes
The genotypic variations on physico-chemical characteristics of purple tomatillo genotypes were evaluated. The result showed that the total phenolic contents were 9.65 ± 0.12, 7.75 ± 0.14 and 8.24 ± 0.14 mg GAE/g fresh weight in 8 to 10 ICTS-UDG, 11 to 40 ICTS-UDG and 14 to 130 ICTS-UDG genotypes, respectively. The anthocyanins content was highest in the genotypes 14 to 130 ICTS-UDG and 17 to 197...
August 2011
The preschool education web-sites and nutrition education activities: An assessment by prospective teachers
The aim of this study is to determine how prospective preschool teachers evaluate preschool education websites and nutrition activities on them. The qualitative research methods were used in this study. The data was obtained by the evaluation of 20 websites using “website evaluation form” via document analysis technique by fourth-year prospective teachers (n=20) at Vocational Education Faculty. As a...
August 2011
The effect of welding parameters on the mechanical and microstructural properties of friction stir welded dissimilar AA 3003-H24 and 2124/SiC/25p-T4 alloy joints
Assemblies consisting of aluminum and particle reinforced aluminum composite alloys have wide spread applications in construction and automotive industries. For a successful use of such dissimilar joints, the welds must have sufficient strength and formability. In the present study, 3003-H24 aluminum alloy and 2124/SiC/25p-T4 composite plates were successfully friction stir butt joined by offsetting the high strength...
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