Objective: The aim of this study was to explore knowledge, attitude and practices of the people regarding handling, storage, and purification of water, in a semi -Urban community of Karachi, Pakistan Methodology: This study was conducted in Lalabad community located in Bin Qasim Town from October 2007 to December 2007.Forty participants were sample
This paper illustrates how an emulator (or meta-model) of a tsunami code can be a useful tool to evaluate or qualify tsunami hazard levels associated with both specific and unknown tsunamigenic seismic sources.The meta-models are statistical tools permitting to drastically reduce the computational time necessary for tsunami simulations.As a consequ
Abstract The bio-ontology community falls into two camps: first we have biology domain experts, who actually hold the knowledge we wish to capture in ontologies; second, we have ontology specialists, who hold knowledge about techniques and best practice on ontology development.In the bio-ontology domain, these two camps have Light Brackets often co
Quantitative resistance in barley to four Fusarium head blight (FHB) species was investigated in vitro.Nine components involved in three assays (detached leaf, modified Petridish and seedling tests) were compared on two widely grown Syrian barley cultivars: Arabi Aswad (AS) and Arabi Abiad (AB).On AB, inoculation with FHB species resulted in a sign
The mine hoist sheave bearing is a large heavy-duty bearing, located in a derrick of tens of meters.Aiming at the difficulty of sheave bearing fault diagnosis, a combined fault-diagnosis method walking Stick based on the improved complete ensemble EMD (ICEEMDAN) energy entropy and support vector machine (SVM) optimized by artificial fish swarm algo