Authors: Vitali Tevelev, Yuval Wolf ABSTRACT A major goal of evidence-based psychotherapy is to assess specific cognitive or emotional schemata and behavioral patterns associated with a particular disorder. The present study is an exploratory attempt to form a quantitative basis … Continue reading
Authors: Krishna Prasad Bastola, Yadhu Nath Guragain, Vamsi Bhadriraju, Praveen Venkata Vadlani ABSTRACT Folin Ciocalteu (F-C) assay is the most widely used and convenient method to determine the total phenolics content in foods, herbs, and other plant extracts. Different phenolics … Continue reading
Authors: Reuven Rasooly, Miriam Rothschild, Yael Gov, Paul Wolferstan, Robert Nash, Paula Do, Naomi Balaban ABSTRACT Extracts of several British butterfly species were tested and shown to possess powerful bactericidal activity against gram-positive bacteria (tested on Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus … Continue reading
Author: Evangelos Vasileiou ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new approach that improves the conventional Historical Value-at-Risk (HVaR) estimations’ accuracy and can be easily applied by anyone. The main assumption for the newly suggested method is … Continue reading
Authors: Walter L. Friedrich, Annette Højen Sørensen, J. Richard Wilson, Michael Fytikas, Spyridon Pavlides, Samson Katsipis ABSTRACT Two prominent and similar pumice series were described on Thera in 1879—the Upper and Lower Pumice Series (UPS and LPS). Since then, geologists … Continue reading
Author: Afaf M. Ali ABSTRACT Changes in the different structural parameters of iPP fibers during the dynamically cold drawing process were characterized. Using the dynamic mechanical cold drawing device attached to Fizeau interference system all the optical and structural properties … Continue reading
Authors: Eugenia Tognotti, Andrea Montella, Peter J. Brown, Pasquale Bandiera ABSTRACT Malaria has been an important disease throughout the history, particularly in the Mediterranean. The island of Sardinia (Italy) was characterized by severe endemic malaria from antiquity until its eradication … Continue reading
Authors: Amani S. Alnezari, Nasser-Eddine Rikli ABSTRACT A Mobile Cloud Computing environment with remote computing and vertical handover capabilities will be considered. A fuzzy logic model will be suggested for both the offloading and handover functions using energy, delay and … Continue reading
Authors: Mónica Rodríguez-Pesina, Jorge García-Domínguez, Felipe García-Hernández, Luisa Maria Flores-Vélez, Octavio Domínguez ABSTRACT The thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorate (AP) with Al and Zn metallic particles was studied at different heating rates in dry air atmosphere and the combustion behavior … Continue reading
Authors: Evelyne Toe, Adjéhi Dadié, Etienne Dako, Guillaume Loukou ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to determine the bacteriological quality of raw mixed vegetable salads served in collective catering in Abidjan and to assess the factors likely to favor … Continue reading