OBJECTIVE Pulse wave velocity (PWV) and aortic augmentation index (AI) are indicators of arterial stiffness. Pulse wave reflection and arterial stiffness are related to cardiovascular events and sickle cell disease. However, the effect of these parameters on the heterozygous sickle cell trait (HbAS) is unknown. The aim of this study is to evaluate the arterial stiffness and wave reflection in y...

conclusions although the general knowledge of our study groups on ai is relatively fair, they are not prepared for ai epidemics. background medical staff’s knowledge and preparedness has an important role in providing specialized care to the patients as well as controlling and preventing the epidemics. objectives the aim of the study is to examine and compare the knowledge and preparedness in t...

The use of third-party logistics (3PL) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. The relationships by considering 3PL are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. These relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

AIMS Mechanisms of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated gastric tumour development are incompletely understood. The interrelations between EBV infection, apoptosis, cell proliferation, and the expression of the tumour suppressor gene p53 was investigated in 133 early stage gastric carcinomas. METHODS Tumour tissue was compared with paired non-tumour tissue. EBV encoded small RNAs (EBERs) deter...

ventilation tube (vt) insertion is the most common otologic operations performed in children, which has great importance in recovery and prevention of hearing loss in children with eustachian tube dysfunction in critical ages of growth development. the location of the vt insertion varies in different studies; the differences are in recovery rates and sequelae of vt insertion. this study is perf...

In the present study, the potency and immunogenicity of the inactivated bivalent vaccine of Newcastle disease (ND) and avian influenza (AI) produced by Razi institute in Iran were compared with a similar imported vaccine administered by standard methods to specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chicken. A total of 150 twenty-one-day-old SPF chickens were used for evaluating Razi and imported inactivated ...

In this paper, we propose a new method for fuzzy numbers. In this method, we assume that Ai= (ai1, ai2, ai3, ai4) is to be a fuzzy number. So, the convex combination of ai1 and ai2 and also the convex combination of ai3 and ai4 are obtained separately. Then, Mic and Mis that are to be the convex combinations and the standard deviation respectively we acquire them from these components. Finally,...

as partial offset volumes to exploit the AVO information in the data. However, there has been significant asymmetry in the way these volumes could be calibrated and inverted. The amplitudes of near-offset, or intercept, stacks relate to changes in acoustic impedance and can be tied to well logs using synthetics based on acoustic impedance (AI) or inverted, to some extent, back to AI using posts...