background: overexpression of rad51 protein in many tumor cells has been proven to increase radioresistance and can be related to the resistance of chemosensitivity of tumor cells. this preliminary study was conducted to determine the relationship between the rad51 expression level in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the response of the treatment based on the measurement of the tumor reduction. met...

in this paper, a new alternative method for order reduction of high order systems is presented based on optimization of multi objective fitness function by using harmony search algorithm. at first, step response of full order system is obtained as a vector, then, a suitable fixed structure considered for model order reduction which order of original system is bigger than fixed structure model. ...

In this paper, we present a new approach to realize sharp 2-D FIR filters using the frequency response masking technique. The synthesis of three common 2-D filters namely the diamond-shaped, fan-shaped and hexagonal-shaped filters are considered. Significant amount of complexity reduction (as compared to direct-form implementations) can be achieved for filters with very narrow transition bands....

Considering the anti-diabetic potential of Trigonella foenum-graecum (TFG) and its beneficial effect on aortic reactivity of diabetic rats, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of its alcoholic seed extract on aortic reactivity and also figure out mechanisms including the role of adrenergic and angiotensinergic systems in streptozotocin-diabetic rats. Male Wistar rats were divided in...

response surface methodology was applied to determine the optimum processing conditions that lead to maximum water loss, weight reduction and minimum solid gain as well as water activity during osmotic dehydration of carrots. temperature (30-50?c), processing time (120-240 min), glucose syrup de=42 (30-50% w/w) and salt (5-15%) concentrations were the factors investigated with respect to water ...

We show that the reduced-rank output signal computed via truncated (Q)SVD is identical to that from an array of parallelly connected analysis-synthesis finite impulse response (FIR) filter pairs. The filter coefficients are determined by the (Q)SVD, and the filters provide an explicit description of the reduced-rank noise reduction algorithm in the frequency domain.

A new straightforward design of a special class of elliptic IIR lters is presented. The major goal is the complexity reduction of the realized digital lter. The multiplier coe cients are implemented with limited number of shift-and-add operations. This method is also called "multiplierless". Unlike classical design, a closed-form relations are derived giving relationships between the lter speci...

Digital filter provide an important role in world of communication and computation. The main aim of Designing a digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter is to provided the better solution which satisfying all the conditions for the practical application and researcher design different techniques for reduction of noise from signal and improved the efficiency of the signal. All these techniqu...

We present the dynamic model of global coupled neuronal population subject to external stimulus by the use of phase sensitivity function. We investigate the effect of time-varying coupling strength on the synchronized phase response of neural population subjected to external harmonic stimulus. For a time-periodic coupling strength, we found that the stimulus with increasing intensity or frequen...

Transportation is an important barrier to accessing obstetric care for many pregnant and postpartum women in low-resource settings, particularly in rural areas. However, little is known about how pregnant women travel to health facilities in these settings. We conducted 1633 exit surveys with women who had a recent facility delivery and 48 focus group discussions with women who had either a hom...