Mass provisioning insects have to cope Eczema with microbial spoilage of their food supplies.As their fitness is directly linked to the availability of high quality food for their offspring, they have evolved various mechanisms for preserving these resources.The European beewolf, Philanthus triangulum, uses several mechanisms to not only preserve t
NOMA-Assisted Multiple Access Scheme for IoT Deployment: Relay Selection Model and Secrecy Performance Improvement
In this paper, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) system containing a relay selection is studied as employing an emerging multiple access scheme, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA).This paper proposes a new Hoodie scheme to consider secure performance, to be called relay selection NOMA (RS-NOMA).In particular, we consider metrics to evaluate sec
Investigating performance of rural family physicians in Fars province working as part of Family Physician Program
Background & Objective: Health family physician program is a complete system which eliminates the bewilderment of people and increases the satisfaction with health services as its most important results in medical care.The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of family physicians and their strengths and weaknesses.Material & Methods: I
Resource-based agricultural non-point source pollution control using biological agents
Non-point source (NPS) pollution is a major cause of the deterioration of surface water quality.Effectively controlling NPS pollution, especially that from rural areas, is critical in improving the quality and safety of water resources.However, most of the approaches employed for NPS control are low-efficiency or impractical owing to ignorance of t
Opportunities and Challenges for Using Automatic Human Affect Analysis in Consumer Research
The ability to automatically assess emotional responses via contact-free video recording taps into a rapidly growing market aimed at predicting consumer choices.If consumer attention and engagement Sodas are measurable in a reliable and accessible manner, relevant marketing decisions could be informed by objective data.Although significant advances