Background Decentralisation in the health sector has been promoted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for many years. Inherently, decentralisation grants decision-making space to local level authorities over different functions such as: finance, human resources, service organization, and governance. However, there is paucity of studies which have assessed the actual use of decisi...

background: phyllodes tumors are uncommon neoplasms of the breast. data about their outcome is limited. this study aims to evaluate patients diagnosed with phyllodes tumors in terms of local recurrence, distant metastasis and overall survival. methods: we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 129 women with phyllodes tumors who referred to our center from 1999 to 2013. clinical and pa...

The effects of disturbance on local species diversity have been well documented, but less recognized is the possibility that disturbances can alter diversity at regional spatial scales. Since regional diversity can dictate which species are available for recolonization of degraded sites, the loss of diversity at regional scales may impede the recovery of biodiversity following a disturbance. To...

Structural analysis of remotely sensed data provides a method of assessing the structural significance of regional metallogenesis in the Dehaj area as the northwestern part of the Kerman porphyry Cu belt. This belt is consisted of dominant Eocene volcanics and the Dehaj type subvolcanic intrusives. In the study area, geologically, Cu-mineralization is hosted by the Kuh-e-Panj type subvolcanic i...

Background: The primary phase of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) starts by a complex local inflammatory reaction such as secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines from microglia and injured cells that substantially contribute to exacerbating pathogenic events in secondary phase. Valproic acid (VPA) is a histone deacetylase inhibitor. Acetylation of histones is critical to cellular inflammatory...

This paper contributes to the study of local cohomology and topological, in particular connectedness properties. Let I denote an ideal of a regular local ring (R,m) containing a field. There is a description of the Lyubeznik number λd,d(R/I), d = dimR/I, in terms of the topology of V (IR̂). In particular, λd,d(R/I) = 1 if and only if V (IR̂) is connected in codimension one. This provides an alter...

The notions of pre-local function, semi-local functions and α-local functions with respect to a topology and an ideal are introduced, and several properties are investigated. Also, the concept of P -I-open sets and P -I-closed sets in ideal topological spaces are discussed. Relations between I-open sets and P -I-open sets are provided, and several properties related to P -I-open sets, pre-local...