OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of insulin resistance syndrome among type-II Saudi diabetics. METHODS The study involved type-II Saudi diabetics followed at the Out-patient Clinic of King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from January 1997 to December 1998. Their age, sex and body mass index was recorded. Serum samples were analyze...

the non-split extension group $overline{g} = 5^3{^.}l(3,5)$ is a subgroup of order 46500000 and of index 1113229656 in ly. the group $overline{g}$ in turn has l(3,5) and $5^2{:}2.a_5$ as inertia factors. the group $5^2{:}2.a_5$ is of order 3 000 and is of index 124 in l(3,5). the aim of this paper is to compute the fischer-clifford matrices of $overline{g}$, which together with associated parti...

abstract natural disasters threatening and endangering human communities has resulted in the study and research of such disasters through the related sciences and present methods of forecasting their behavior with time and place and also from a qualification and quantity viewpoint. to this end, numerous methods for the determination of the maximum flood in various return period has been made av...

By utilizing an irreducible inclusion of type IIIq2 factors coming from a free-product type action of the quantum group SUq(2), we show that the free group factor L(F∞) possesses irreducible subfactors of arbitrary index > 4. Combined with earlier results of Radulescu, this shows that L(F∞) has irreducible subfactors with any index value in {4 cos(π/n) : n ≥ 3} ∪ [4,+∞).

A recent note by Merrilees [15] concludes that Divisia index numbers as employed in our studies of productivity change [ l l , 141 represent a new perspective on the analysis of productivity. Merrilees concludes further that Divisia index numbers are appropriate for the explanation of productivity change, but that they should not be used for measurement. In this note we examine and reject both ...

Biomarker studies for early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI) have been limited by nonselective testing and uncertainties in using small changes in serum creatinine as a reference standard. Here we examine the ability of urine L-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP), neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), interleukin-18 (IL-18), and kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM-1) to predic...

hydrological drought analysis using sdi index in halilrud basin of iran abstract nowadays, drought is considered as damaging environmental phenomenon which affects natural resources and social communities. therefore it will be an important issues that magnitude and effects of these phenomena to be considered. to do this we used l-moment method for regional homogeneity testing. the streamflow dr...

in order to investigate the possibility of reducing herbicide usage in combination with plant density and planting pattern, a field experiment was designed in chenaran, khorasan razavi, on 2010. the experiment was split plot treatments based on rcbd with three replications in factorial arragement. the treatments included of 3 level of plant density (100000, 120000 and 140000 plants ha-1) and 2 ...