this study was conducted on 48 specimens of rectus abdominis muscles for recognition and definition of passage and ramification of lower intercostal nerves. the main results of this study are as follows: 1- the seventh and eight intercostal nerves penetrated to posterior layer of the rectus sheath while other intercostal nerves perforated to dorsal layer of internal oblique abdominis aponeurosi...

objective: asthma is an airway complex disease defined by reversible airway narrowing and obstruction, chronic airway inflammation, airway hyperresponsiveness, and tissue remodeling. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of brassica napus l. (b. napus) on airway pathologic changes in a rat model of asthma. materials and methods: twenty-four rats were divided into 4 groups: contr...

[1] The air pressures in coastal unsaturated zones fluctuate in response to tidal fluctuations. Two-phase air-water flow induced by sea tides in a coastal two-layered subsurface system is investigated through numerical simulations. The system consists of upper and lower layers with permeabilities of kU and kL, respectively. A water table exists in the lower layer. The study demonstrates that ai...

Scalable video coding (SVC) is an extension of H.264/MPEG 4 AVC approved by JVT on November, 2007. The characteristic of the SVC is the encoding of a high-quality video bitstream that contains one or more enhancement layer bitstreams in addition to the base layer bitstream. We propose a fast enhancement layer macro block (MB) mode decision algorithm for spatial scalable SVC utilizing statistica...

Thin-film Si grows layer by layer on Si(001)-(2 × 1):H in plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Here we investigate the reason why this occurs by using quantum chemical molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations. We propose a dangling bond (DB) diffusion model as an alternative to the SiH3 diffusion model, which is in conflict with first-principles calculation results an...

Energy saving becomes critical in modern cloud wireless multimedia and mobile communication systems. In this paper we propose to study a new paradigm named application layer Position-Value diversity for wireless image sharing for cloudedge communications, which has significant energy saving potentials for modern wireless networking systems. In this new paradigm, saving energy is achieved by loo...

This paper describes design of a network node, which uses narrowband powerline communication for data exchange in AMR and AMM networks. Also an implementation of first two ISO/OSI layers is described in this paper. Data reception synchronization and some indicators for upper layer functions as the capabilities of physical layer are detailed. A passage about data link layer is focused on the fra...

Rhesus monkey embryonic stem (rhES) cells were grown on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder layers for up to 10 days to form multilayered colonies. Within this period, stem cell colonies differentiated transiently into complex structures with a disc-like morphology. These complex colonies were characterized by morphology, immunohistochemistry, and marker mRNA expression to identify processe...