background: patients with trichotillomania (tc) have an irreversible urge to pull their hair.  this self-mutilation behavior is associated with high level of tension before and a sense of gratification and relief after tc.   objective: to investigate the personality characteristics of patients suffering from tc.   method: the study was performed on 43 tc patients and 43 gender and age-matched n...

background: ras-associated domain family 1 (rassf1a) and hypermethylated in cancer (hic1) genes are methylated more frequently in breast cancer. genetic factors that alter the dna methylation levels in normal and tumor tissues could therefore influence the susceptibility to this tumor phenotype. objective: we determined the frequency of aberrant methylation of hic1 and rassf1a gene promoters an...

background: acute kidney injury (aki) is a common and life-threatening complication following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg). neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (ngal) and cystatin c have shown to be good predictive factors for aki. recently, there has been a growing interest in the use of hypertonic saline in cardiac operations. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the prophy...

The aim of this note is to study the submajorization inequalities for $tau$-measurable operators in a semi-finite von Neumann algebra on a Hilbert space with a normal faithful semi-finite trace $tau$. The submajorization inequalities generalize some results due to Zhang, Furuichi and Lin, etc..

Algebraic hyperstructures have many applications in various sciences. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a new application of weak hyperstructures in Chemistry. More precisely, we present three different examples of hyperstructures associated to electrochemical cells. In which we prove that our hyperstructures are Hv-semigroups and we present some interesting results.

The purpose of this paper is the study of Cayley graph associated to a semihypergroup(or hypergroup). In this regards first  we associate a Cayley graph to every semihypergroup and then we study theproperties of this graph, such as  Hamiltonian cycles in this  graph.  Also, by some of examples we will illustrate  the properties and behavior of  these Cayley  graphs, in particulars we show that ...

  Thymoma is a term that should be restricted to neoplasms of thymic epithelial cells, irrespective of the presence or the number of lymphocytes. The usual location of thymoma is the antrosuperior mediastinum; however, this tumor can also occur in other mediastinal compartments, in the neck, within the thyroid gland, in the pericardial cavity, the pulmonary hilum, within the lung parenchyma, o...