Due to Romania’s location between Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, and the varied geographical environments, the country’s fauna is rich and diversified which leads to the definition of several environmental regions. The paper aims to analyse the dynamics of certain species of mammals in the south-eastern part of the country which, in terms of the European bio-geographical affiliation, lies at the margin most to the South-West of the Steppe region. The study-area ranks amongst the critical environment regions in Romania, mainly related to the hydro-climatic factors whose evolution have contributed to the decline of many mammal species. Although it is not the area largely covered in forests in the country, a varied fauna of large mammals has been preserved here to this day. The presence of most forests in the region has led to the preservation of certain valuable mammal species (Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Sus scrofa, Vulpes vulpes etc.), even if not rich in specimens. During the past decades, the fauna inhabiting this territory has been enriched by several new species – some artificially introduced (Ovis ammon, Dama dama, Myocastor coypus), and others that have naturally penetrated the area (Cervus elaphus, Canis lupus, Canis aureus, Ondatra zibethicus, Nyctereutes procyonoides). Some rare mammals were also preserved, as was for example, Vormela peregusna, which has a zoo-geographical significance.

The present study was designed to study the effect of storage duration on changes of antioxidant capacity and bioactive compounds in garlic by DPPH and FRAP assays and GC-MS. The results showed that both DPPH and FRAP assays almost displayed the strongest antioxidant capacities in garlic at 8 weeks. The levels of soluble sugar decreased during storage, and that of total polyphenols and organosulfur compounds reached max value at 6 and 8weeks, respectively, and then decreased significantly. The GC-MS results of ethyl acetate extract showed that among of the 18 typical organosulfur compounds, 10 compounds of which reached max levels at 8 weeks. Above which indicated that organosulfur compounds played a key role in antioxidant capacities in garlic, due to its levels showed positive relation with antioxidant capacities during storage. The results provide beneficial information for garlic processing industries and consumers to make full use of garlic during storage.

The vast and growing need of society to the building and housing has raised the necessity of using construction systems and new construction materials in order to accelerate construction operation, reduce construction cost, increase quality and also retrofitting and strengthening buildings resistant against earthquake more than before.Due to the relatively vast geographical area of the developing country of Iran, and given the rapid burgeoning population and growing requirements to mass housing production, common and traditional construction methods utilization cannot meet the housing requests. So, application of modern technologies and/or construction methods by using industrial production methods is the proper response for the challenges facing the building industry of the country. (Golabchi, Mahmoud, 2010)

In this paper a different approach based on Metaheuristic Algorithm is presented for removing unwanted region in mammogram image is carried out using image segmentation process. The foraging behavior of monkey is optimized as Monkey Search Optimization (MSO) which is the subset of the metaheuristic algorithm. To solve complex problems by cooperation the behaviors are considered. Several algorithms based on population-based metaheuristic algorithms were introduced in the literature to solve different problems like optimization problems; it is proven by result that the proposed approach has the potential to be an appropriate algorithm for image segmentation. Results are presented based on simulation made with the implementation in MATLAB which is tested on the images of MIAS database.

Communication used to be a field and it is nowadays a universe. It directly or subjacent includes, crosses and directs all manifestations of the human existence, a communicational fission occurs in any life manifestation. The mere presence within the limits of the personal and public space generates communication. At a higher level, any human contact is a communication embryo. The content of communication is the meanings. Messages are nodes of meanings. People do not transmit words, signs or signals to one another, they transmit meanings. Moreover, they co-construct meanings. People are creators of meanings, and communication ensures the “communisation”, their sharing. The world, the universe emerges as a grid of network wherein any entity is directly or indirectly related and voluntarily, involuntarily or neutrally communicates with any other entity. The universe consists of entities and of all they put together. What is “pooled” links and brings into relation. However, what is pooled also separates. From an analytical perspective focused on the practical aspect of communication, communication has several functions: persuasion or social influence, socialization, social support, information processing, conflict, decision-making, and entertainment. The functions represent activities which an entity is designed for and effectively conducts them. Once they are planned, they become attributions. The loop generating the functions is the needs. A system exercises fundamental or defining functions and complementary or related functions. Functions do not exist outside the systems. They are established in the idea of fulfilling a purpose and in satisfying a need. In other words, the needs induce purposes, and the purposes require functions. Generally, people have certain needs that lead to certain purposes. Some of the needs and purposes are of communicative nuance. On the coordinate of communicational needs-purposes, two defining communication purposes are outlined: communicative relationship and “communisation” of meanings (pooling the meanings). Concordantly, two ontological functions of communication are delimited. The first function of communication is the relationship. The second function is communisation. The relationship function is the constitutive function, and the “communisation” function (of pooling something: ideas, emotions, material elements, etc.) is the constructive function. In communication, the relation is the proximity kind, and pooling is the specific difference. In relation to the context, the situation or communication environment, these two functions become resonances and specific nuances. Modelling and the impregnation between the context (situation, environment) and the functions of communication are reciprocal. Thus, the functions acquire particular profiles in various types of communication: intrapersonal, interpersonal, grouped, organisational (managerial, decisional, etc.) or social.

The isolated spinach light-harvesting complexes II (LHCII) and photosystem II core complexes (PSIICC) could be reconstituted into liposomes which constituted of chlorophyll a (Chl a) and thylakoid lipids. It was demonstrated via 77 K fluorescence emission spectra that energy was transferred from LHCII to PSIICC in liposome membranes. The result of oxygen evolution activity showed that the activity of PSIICC-LHCII proteoliposomes was significantly higher than that of PSIICC proteoliposomes without extra LHCII. This result demonstrated the reconstitution with LHCII increased the antenna size and light-harvesting section in proteoliposomes, so the oxygen evolution activity of PSII was enhanced by providing a new way to increase sun harvesting and photosynthetic productivity for the globe under global climate change.

This paper presents a comprehensive experimental investigation on the behaviour of axially loaded geopolymer concrete short columns that have been strengthened with glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) wrap. An experiment has been made to study the load-deflection behaviour and compressive strength of reinforced Geopolymer concrete short circular columns of M30, M50 and G30, G50 grade concrete, under axial compression and examines several aspects related to the use of GFRP strengthened for geopolymer concrete short column. The objectives of the hypothesis are: The behaviour of Geopolymer Reinforced concrete short circular columns, The evaluation of the effect of the number of GFRP layers on the ultimate load and the ductility of short columns, Stiffness and compressive strength indices for Geopolymer short columns and The mechanical behaviours of wrapping the Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer(GFRP) around the column. Totally thirty six specimens were subjected to axial compression which includes twelve control specimens. All the test specimens were loaded to find out the point of failure in axial compression and investigated in both axial and transverse direction. The overall length of the column is 800mm.The reinforcement ratio was kept constant throughout the study as 2.16%. The load carrying capacity and deflection pattern were arrived and compared with Ordinary Portland cement reinforced column and also the results were compared with wrapping the column with GFRP sheets.

Technology can be developed through supportive policies, suitable rules, and efficient institutional structure .Science and technology parks have the necessary potential for the technology development. Regional varieties and different economical-social fields need different strategies to reach the new agriculture technologies. This study purpose is identifying strategies for developing the agriculture technology in the science and technology parks. Based on paradigm and objective, this study is quantitative and applicatory, respectively, which was carried out by correlation method. Statistical population of the study were 200 of faculty members of Tehran province\'s agriculture faculties; Using Cochran formula, 90 ones were estimated as sample size, and samples were selected by random sampling. Questionnaire was the main study tool; its validity and reliability were determined by the expert panel and Cronbach alpha coefficient (0.87), respectively. The most suitable strategies were developing the technology in universities, increasing the national investment in research and the development of higher educational centers ,reinforcing the relation between government and industry ,universities ,and society ,taking incentives into account for the active researches in the field of technology development and new products ,and more financial supports for thesis to complete and commercializing the studies` results. Results of factor analysis showed that 6 factors, totally, explains about 83.9 percent of the variance related to the agriculture technology development strategies. These factors are development of technology –oriented studies (19.5 %) .development of infrastructures (17.34 %) , improvement of the policies and programs (16.83 %) information and communications (13.32 %) ,incentives and supports( 13.32 %) ,and technology transfer (7.41 %).

In this paper, to achieve an efficiency robustness and accuracy registration purpose, we proposed a new method (GTM-GMM) for multi-modality 3D image, combined gradient decent optimizer, maximum mutual information, multi-resolution (GMM) and an improved optimizer gradient threshold mask (GTM) which ensures high quality sampled voxels. First we compute a mask based on gradient, than we process the mask using threshold filter to get a final mask which not only contains the edge information but also region information. In each level of multiresolution we use different gradient mask depending on the specific level to subsample voxels. In higher level registration, the mask will contain more edge information but less region information and the sampling voxels will decrease in a large number due to the little movement of the floating volume. We show that our improved method is more efficient and accurate than conventional registration method.

Today, service processes are usually slow processes which are\nconsequently prone to poor service quality. In addition, service has the inherent\ncharacteristic of heterogeneity, which means there is variation in service quality\nthat is unsatisfactory to the customer. Fortunately, these issues can be addressed\nby combining the speed advantage of Lean discipline with Six Sigma’s capability\nof uniform process output. This paper aims to develop and apply an integrated\nLean Six Sigma methodology in a service-quality improvement endeavour.\nAn empirical case study of IT (Information Technology) help-desk service was\nutilised to examine the effectiveness of the methodology.

Increasing the competition between organizations in the field of productions and services leads them to use\nthe samples and patterns to assess their activities and performance. Appearing this kind of needs and\ninefficiency of measuring systems with traditional activities assessment causes to create new models of\nactivities assessment in organizations. These models are divided in two groups. The first group is based on\nself assessment and the second group is based on measurement and improvement of business trade\nprocess. Among mentioned models, Balanced Score Card (BSC) and European Foundation for Quality\nManagement (EFQM) have had more chance to be used by many companies. Regarding the high\nacceptance of these two models in the world and existence many similarities between them; this study is\ngoing to present a glance of these two models and address comparison between them. Moreover, after\nrecognizing the weaknesses and powers of them, the possibility of using them at the same time will be\nevaluated. In order to gain this goal, an IT Company’s performance has been assessed based on BSC and\nEFQM and the results are analyzed using TOPSIS method.

Web servers constitute the electronic front door of many organizations. More and more critical applications are developed on the web in various fields like finance, e-commerce. In the same time, web servers and web-based applications are popular attack targets. Traditional approaches which focus only on preventing attacks are insufficient when used in the context of open networks like Internet which are characterized by frequent appearance of new attacks. The objective is to propose a generic architecture for intrusion-tolerant dynamic Web Servers. Unlike other intrusion tolerant architectures, this architecture focuses on redundancy, diversification and fault tolerance. Placing heterogeneous web servers with load balancing proxy inbetween, not only makes it difficult for the attackers to progress, but also improves the efficiency of the web servers.

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between post-divorce parental conflict, maternal economic hardship and parent-child relationship with academic achievement in a sample of 800 adolescents of divorced families aged 15 to 18 years old using probability proportionate to size sampling technique. The findings indicated that post-divorce parental conflict, maternal economic hardship and parent-child relationship were associated with academic achievement among adolescents of divorced families. The findings implied that adolescents who experienced high level of post-divorce parental conflict, high maternal economic hardship and poor parent-child relationship tend to exhibit lower level of academic achievement. The present study concludes that parent-child relationship is the strongest predictor of academic achievement among adolescents of divorced families in Mashhad/Iran.