October 2011
Health-related physical fitness among rural primary school children in Tshannda, South Africa
The socioeconomic transformation in South Africa over the previous decade may have created a less active lifestyle and a decline in fitness among South African children. This study seeks to present the data on the health-related physical fitness of the Tshannda rural school children in grades 1 to 7 and to evaluate age and gender differences in physical fitness among the Tshannda children, of which...
October 2011
Performance evaluation of the rubber dam project for irrigation development
Rubber dam irrigation system for impounding surface water is a new technology in Bangladesh. It is important and priority in agricultural sector for sustainable irrigation water management due to scarcity of groundwater. The rubber dam project was evaluated to facilitate irrigation through proper use of water resources in the project area by conserving water for rabi crops. This study was evaluated by...
October 2011
Alluvial fan growth in a seismically active intermontane foreland basin: Kuşçular formation, Eastern Turkey
The KuÅŸçular formation (early Paleocene) around Baskil and Keban (ElaziÄŸ) in the Eastern Taurids represents alluvial fan and playa lake facies that were deposited in an intermontane foreland basin. The formation with a total thickness of up to 585 m consists of seven lithofacies of massive conglomerates, stratified conglomerates, massive sandstones, stratified sandstones, red mudstones, nodular...
October 2011
Evidence-based information resources management skill among Iranian residents, internship and nursing students in urgent care
Information management skill refers to use of available, up to date and valid information sources, that are associated with patient care and are available during care. The advent of the Internet and electronic resources solve some of the physical information access problems and provide an opportunity for all care providers to have access to a wide range of research evidence. But urgent care in...
October 2011
Determination of friction factor for rivers with non-submerged vegetation in banks and floodplains
Due to vegetation flexibility, friction factor varies in flood plains and river banks and is a function of vegetation characteristics and flow conditions. Study of river behavior and effect of vegetation on river systems are very important for water intake in pumping stations, water treatment plans and wastewater and construction of structures such as bridges and diversion channels. Purpose of this research...
October 2011
Signal based approach for data mining in fault detection of induction motor
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new method which combines data mining and signal processing techniques for identifying potential faults in electric motors. The vibration signals measured in the initial (healthy) state of the electric motor are used as source data for application of data mining technique. In this sense, a new data mining technique is introduced by the definition of a feature transfer...
October 2011
Using spatial technologies for the planning of coastal zones: A case study of Kaynarca coast in the Sakarya Delta
During the last decades, developments in computer technologies have rapidly increased. Depending on these, geospatial information technologies have also significantly developed, and now they improve our decision making ability about most of our daily life plans and problems. In terms of coastal zone management, geospatial technologies can be useful for the sustainable development of the coastal zones. In this...
October 2011
Endometrial stromal nodule complicated by abdominal cocoon: Case report and literature review
To investigate clinical characteristics, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of abdominal cocoon and Endometrial stromal nodule (ESN). Based on the clinical data of our case, domestic and foreign clinical data of ESN and abdominal cocoon were reviewed. The main manifestations of ESN included increased menstrual flow and vagina anomalous hemorrhage, or sometimes no obvious symptoms. Ultrasound showed hypoecho...
October 2011
Pathological findings and clinical analyses on delayed renal graft function
To uncover the pathological feature of delayed renal graft function (DGF) and to explore corresponding prevention and treatments, 84 recipients receiving renal biopsy in our center from December 2007 to September 2010 were enrolled in this study, and 32 cases belonged to DGF. B-type ultrasonography-guided renal needle biopsy with BARD (a company in USA) biopsy needle was performed. After H and E staining,...
October 2011
Characteristics of abused women and factors that enhanced abuse
The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of abused women who visited Masonwabisane Women Support Centre (MWSC) in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Data was collected at MWSC, an NGO operating under Mnquma local municipality. A descriptive quantitative approach was used where records of abused women (245) were reviewed retrospectively with effect from the 1st of July to 31st December...
October 2011
Chemically reacting Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer flow of heat and mass transfer past a low-heat-resistant sheet moving vertically downwards
A theoretical study has been conducted to investigate the steady Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) boundary layer flow past a low-heat-resistant sheet moving vertically downwards. The fluid is considered viscous, incompressible and electrically conducting. The non-linear coupled differential equations are solved numerically by applying Runge-Kutta integration scheme coupled with Newton-Raphson shooting technique....
October 2011
Product lifecycle management (PLM) methodology for product tracking based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology
Existing product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions today do not support product tracking. These solutions only support data exchange in company about products. Recent investigations indicate growing need to trace and manage data on products even when they leave the original production system, covering other product lifecycle stages such as exploitation, servicing, EoL (End of Life) warehousing,...
October 2011
Variation of Fraxinus ornus subsp. cilicica (Lingelsh) Yalt in the Lakes District of Turkey
The aim of this study was to investigate the leaf, seed and seedling characteristics of Fraxinus ornus subsp. cilicica (Lingelsh) Yalt. which is an endemic plant in Turkey. For this purpose, the statistics and differences of the mentioned characteristics were determined by means of SPSS. It was found out that, there were significant differences at 0.001 level among populations in terms of...
October 2011
The dual exponential mapping on dual rotations
Dual numbers are introduced by Clifford in the mid-nineteenth century and they are systematically applied to kinematics by Study (1903) and Kotelnikov (1895). Any point on the dual unit sphere (DUS) corresponds to a straight line in QUOTE (real three space), and vice versa. By this way, there is a one to one correspondence between the dual curves on DUS and the one...
October 2011
Implementation of selected geobarriers for the landscape planning purposes in Slezska Ostrava (Czech Republic)
This article deals with the analysis of engineering-geological zones, flood lands and radon hazard. The main reason of the study is the insufficient use of engineering-geological data for land planning and designing activities of competent authorities. The applied method makes use of the possibilities of geographical information systems, terrain research, documentation and study of archives. The research is...
October 2011
A real-time object tracking by using fuzzy controller for vision-based mobile robot
In this study, a real-time object tracking application based on robot vision is presented. The developed robot has features that enable it to be utilized also in expedition, security, object-based indoor navigation and observational activities. Enabling the autonomous motion of this vision-based mobile robot, by just using robot vision methods and fuzzy logic control was the aim of the study. A vision-based...
October 2011
Effect of plant density on yield and yield components of corn hybrids (Zea mays)
In order to study the effect of plant density on yield and yield components of grain corn hybrids, a field experiment was conducted in 2007-2008 in Firouz-Abad of Iran. The experiment was conducted in split plot base on randomized completely block design with three replications. Main plots were four levels of corn cultivars: Hybrid of late maturing 704 (V1), hybrid of mid maturing 604 (V2), hybrid of early...
October 2011
Numerical investigation of laminar and turbulent mixed convection in a shallow water-filled enclosure by various turbulence methods
In this study, we first modeled laminar mixed convection inside rectangular enclosure with moving wall and ‘aspect ratio’ = 10 and then the results were compared with other investigators. After showing verity of results, we continued our investigation with turbulent flow using standard , RNG and RSM models for Richardson numbers 0.1 to 10 and Ra = 6 × 109. The results showed...
October 2011
Water sports athletes and nutritional supplements: A study of use and perceptions
The current study was designed to examine the nutritional supplement prevalence of elite water sports athletes who compete in national and international levels in European countries and to determine the type of supplement use and the relationship between specific performance-related reasons for supplement use. Two hundred water sports athletes (mean age=24.7±4.32 years) volunteered to participate in...
October 2011
Social emotional optimization algorithm with group decision
Social emotional optimization algorithm (SEOA) is a new swarm intelligent technique by simulating human social behaviors. In SEOA, each individual represents a virtual person and pursues high society status by selecting the behaviors according to the corresponding emotional index in each iteration. Therefore, how to simulate the personal decision mechanism plays an important role for the algorithm...
October 2011
A performance measurement system under activity based costing for advanced manufacturing systems by an integrated fuzzy AHP-fuzzy TOPSIS approach
Nowadays, most of manufacturing firms try to reduce manufacturing response time, improve quality and decrease the costs by investing on advance manufacturing systems (AMSs) as the critical and vital strategic tools. Although the investment and successful implementation of AMSs has many potential advantages and benefits for manufacturing firms, a performance measurement system of manufacturing firms is a very...
October 2011
The morphometrical response of the combined nandrolone and testosterone usage to the femur
The aim of this study is to determine the effects of the combined testosterone and nandrolone usages, which are frequently use in athletetics was tested on the femur bone of rabbits. Sixty day old twenty-four New Zealand White rabbits were used. Male and female rabbits were divided into two groups as control group (no application) testosterone (10 mg/kg, IM, one day in a week during 12 weeks) + 10 mg/kg...
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