background: dental cobalt base alloys are biocompatible dental materials and have been widely used in dentistry. however, metals are bioinert and may not present bioactivity in human body. bioactivity is the especial ability to interact with human body and make a bonding to soft and hard tissues. the aim of the present research was fabrication and bioactivity evaluation of novel cobalt alloy/ f...

Consider a sequence of n independent observations from a population of increasing size αi, i = 1,2,... and an absolutely continuous initial distribution function. The distribution of the kth record value is represented as a countable mixture, with mixing the distribution of the kth record time and mixed the distribution of the nth order statistic. Precisely, the distribution function and (pow...

concentrations of heavy metals (ni, co, zn, cd, pb and cu) in the reservoir of shahid rajaeidam, one of the main water reservoirs in north part of iran, were determined using a differential pulse polarography(metrohm 797 va) and compared with the national and international specified maximum contaminant levels(mcl) for different purposes of water use. the results showed that concentrations of cd...

Bamboo-structured carbon nanotubes are grown on Co-Mo/MCM-41 catalyst in the temperature range of 873-973 K by thermal chemical vapor deposition of acetylene. This study shows that the purified carbon nanotubes have open tips and the metals of the catalyst are not encapsulated. Thus, the bamboo-structure seems to grow from the base. Pore size distribution of the product is quite narrow and ...

Previous studies have presented well-ordered collaboration structures of co-author pairs. Kretschmer and Kretschmer have shown that, for high impact SCI journals, the distributions of co-author pairs' frequencies can be considered to be a reflection of a social Gestalt. This study is an extension of that work to the social sciences, namely eleven journals in women's and gender studies. After ov...

Transcription factors (TFs) do not function alone but work together with other TFs (called co-TFs) in a combinatorial fashion to precisely control the transcription of target genes. Mining co-TFs is thus important to understand the mechanism of transcriptional regulation. Although existing methods can identify co-TFs, their accuracy depends heavily on the chosen background model and other param...

We propose a hierarchical, model-based co-clustering framework for handling high-dimensional datasets. The technique views the dataset as a joint probability distribution over row and column variables. Our approach starts by initially clustering rows in a dataset, where each cluster is characterized by a different probability distribution. Subsequently, the conditional distribution of attribute...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs which regulate gene expression by binding to the 3 UTR of the corresponding messenger RNAs. We construct miRNA co-target networks for 22 different species using a target prediction database, MicroCosm Tagets. The miRNA pairs of individual species having one or more common target genes are connected and the number of co-targets are assigned as the wei...