Abstract\nIn this paper, the possibility of using an environmentally friendly material - cork as a thermal insulation material for buildings will be pointed out. In today\'s world, energy efficiency and ecology are two of the most important problems facing our society. The great and growing need of society for construction and housing has raised the need for the use of innovative building materials in order to preserve the environment, reduce operating costs, i.e., life in them. \nThe need for energy is increasing, with the energy becoming more expensive and there is less and less conventional energy, energy crises are becoming more frequent, and the environment is becoming more polluted. Therefore, there is a need to reduce energy consumption and find ways to generate energy that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.\nEnergy efficient and environmentally friendly thermal insulation materials play a key role in reducing energy consumption and solving climate changes. The most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly insulation materials are those made from renewable or recycled resources, they have low built-in energy and a long lifespan.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in assessing brain growth in infants. Myelin, a vital component for children’s brain development, necessitates precise segmentation from MRI scans for accurate medical analysis. Manual myelin segmentation by medical experts is prone to practical errors due to the subjective interpretation of infant brain images. Myelin deficiency in children can lead to various health issues, underscoring the importance of accurate myelin segmentation to quantify its presence. Early identification of insufficient myelin growth allows for timely intervention to enhance myelin through appropriate treatments. Despite ongoing research in myelin studies, the segmentation of myelin from conventional MRI remains an unexplored area. Segmenting myelin from conventional MRI is advantageous due to its time and cost efficiency compared to alternative methods. In this study, we focused on segmenting myelin from T1-weighted inversion recovery MRI using fleckmentation, fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM), fuzzy c-means clustering with a level-set method (FCM-LSM), and Otsu’s thresholding method specifically for infants. Our analysis revealed that the FCM method is particularly suitable for myelin segmentation, substantiated by metrics such as Accuracy, Precision, Dice, and Jaccard.
In this paper, a systematic model for chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal using the ANAMMOX process was provided based on an experimental design. At first, the experimental data was collected from a combined biological aerobic/anaerobic reactor. For modelling and optimization of COD removal, the main parameters were considered, such as COD loading, ammonium, pH, and temperature. From the models,the optimum conditions were determined as COD 97.5 mg/L, ammonium concentration equal to 28.75 mg-N/L, pH 7.72 and temperature 31.3oC. Finally, the analysis of the optimum conditions, performed by the response surface method, predicted COD removal efficiency of 81.07% at the optimum condition.
Abstract\nLearner-oriented education is a spectrum that extends from the interaction between learner and teacher to pure learner-oriented education. This study uses a descriptive-analytical methodology to explore the views of the three main contributors of learner-oriented education, namely, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget. This study is an attempt to find the positions of these three personalities on learner-oriented education spectrum. The findings of this study show that all three personalities supported learner-oriented education and emphasized on its many attributes. These attributes provide learner the freedom of experimentation, interaction, and participation based on his needs, motivation, interest, and willingness that are driven by his talents and understanding. Learner-oriented education is like a color spectrum. It starts at the light end (A) and turns darker as education moves on the spectrum toward the other end (B). Each one of the three contributors has a position on this spectrum.
Since ancient, Chelidonium majus is well organized for its therapeutic values. Only recently, scientists have been aware of its new medicinal aspects. Regarding ongoing reports and new medicinal properties of this plant we were prompted to update Phytochemistry and pharmacology of C. majus. Data were gathered using of scientific books, journals, articles and websites including Pubmed, Scopus and Google Scholar up to 10th June 2012. C. majus extracts are important in drug development with numerous pharmacological functions in the western phytotherapy and in traditional medicines especially in China. C. majus is famous in traditional medicines for the treatment of gallstones and dyspepsia and various inflammatory diseases including atopic dermatitis and extensively used against various liver ailments. In addition, C. majus has recently been shown to have antiinflammatory, antimicrobial, antitumoral, anti-osteoporotic , antitussive, antiviral, antifungal, oncostatic, hepatoprotective, diuretic, and eye-regenerative, radioprotection, antioxidant ,cytotoxic effects, as well as anthelmintic ,phototoxic, algicide, cyanocide and cytostatic activities. The valuable therapeutic aspects of this plant are mostly correlated to the existence of isoquinoline alkaloids, flavonoids, phenolic acids and proteins. Due to the easy collection of the plant and remarkable biological activities, this plant has become a potent medicine in many parts of the world. This overview presents comprehensive analyzed information on the chemical and clinical aspects of C. majus.
Cereals and pulses are the most important food sources for supplying protein, calories, and energy especially for those who live in the developing countries. Analysis and survey of changes’ trend of these two products in the past can assist researchers to have a better and efficient programming. It seems that production policies of agricultural products in different countries from 1970 to 2009 are various and this difference can have dissimilar reasons. This report shows that Europe’s policies in production of cereals and pulses differ with other continents. While four other continents are increasing the cultivation and production of these two products, Europe decreases it. Certainly this issue requires more survey.
We present the case of a 30 years old patient (male) victim of a high speed car crush assisted by ED Craiova. Coma, severe head trauma, serious chest trauma with multiple rib fractures, bilateral lung contusions, pericardial fluid, multiple spine and pelvic unstable fracture, medullar injury, progressive shock, paroxysmal cardiac dysrhythmias. Increased levels of CKMB with atipical evolution for a myocardial contusion. Two cardiopulmonary arrest (asystole), both resuscitated.\nTaking into account the kinematics and severity of thoracic trauma, myocardial contusion was the first diagnostic hypotheses, but it was also considered the possibility of an acute coronary syndrome, toxicologic ethyology and the spinal cord damage as causes of cardiogenic shock and cardiac rhythm disturbance. \nThe association of neurotrauma, haemorrhage and pulmonary contusion limited treatment of an potential acute coronary syndrome, fast volume replacement and the possibilitys to assist ventilation, in context of shock and risk of secondary brain and spinal injury.\nSpecifying these contingencies determined the management orientation for both possible primary reperfusion and advanced management for neurotrauma.
Today, companies protect their competitive advantage against competitors, continually attending to responding to customer demand. One of the key characteristics of today\'s business world is attending to competition of supply chain instead of competing companies. Therefore, measuring performance of the supply chain has become an important issue in supply chain management. Lean supply chain providing with the concept of empowerment and the elimination of undesirable changes with Agile supply to meet the increasing need to cover demand variability and uncertainty, In order to deal with the problems posed by the combined a new approach by the title, agile lean (Leagile) has been made Which is used by many companies in the world. However, orientation towards establishing business intelligence in any business and any supply chain is the main strategy of nowadays managers. Business Intelligence helps management to acquire data faster and make better and faster decisions. In this paper, original agile supply chains in the refrigerator factory, Nersy, is presented by SCI global model.