Small airways, big challenge

Small airways, big challenge.

Mobile Imaging: the big challenge of the small pixel

As the number of image sensor pixels in camera phones increases, users expect camera phone image quality to be comparable to digital still cameras. The mobile imaging industry is aware, however, that simply packing more pixels into the very limited camera module size need not improve image quality. When the size of a pixel array is fixed, increasing the number of image sensor pixels decreases p...

Addiction: A big challenge of social security in Iran

Due to special conditions of Iran; i.e., neighboring to major centers of drug production in Afghanistan during the last few decades, it was the passageway of the drug to Europe. Moreover, because of appropriate context of social, economic and cultural situations, there was an increased addiction and drug trafficking in Iran. It is obvious that a lot of people would be involved directly and indi...

New Big Data Challenge

Fostered by Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, and corresponding technological advancements, social media have become massively popular during the last decade. The term social media refers to a wide spectrum of digital interaction and information exchange platforms. YouTube). Regardless of the particularities of each one, these social media services share the common goal of enabling the general pub...

Assessing small airways disease.

A simple method of assessing smaller airways obstruction is easily available and could be used retrospectively. In contrast to the mean forced expiratory flow between 25 and 75% of forced vital capacity (FVC; FEF25–75%), which measures the mid-portion of exhalation ending at nearly the same time as the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) in these subjects, the FEV3/FVC% or (1-FEV3/FVC...