Consumption of soyprotein has recently been shown to improve the blood lipid levels in non-diabetic subjects. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if a dietary soyprotein isoflavones affects lipid and blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetic subjects. Twenty six type 2 diabetic patients who had refferd to Ahvaz Jundishapour University Diabetes Center, due to uncontrolled diabetes, participa...

This paper proposes a robotics-inspired method to enhance sampling of native-like protein conformations when employing only amino-acid sequence. Computing such conformations, essential to associate structural and functional information with gene sequences, is challenging due to the high-dimensionality and the rugged energy surface of the protein conformational space. The contribution of this wo...

Generally in any parotid surgery it is necessary to identify the trunk and branches of the facial nerve. For damage to this nerveor its branches may have irreparable consequences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of anatomical variation of facial nerve branching in patients undergoing parotid surgery. 94 patients undergone parotid surgery in Imam Khomeini Hospital of Jond...

The adaptive Metropolis (AM) algorithm of Haario, Saksman and Tamminen [Bernoulli 7 (2001) 223-242] uses the estimated covariance of the target distribution in the proposal distribution. This paper introduces a new robust adaptive Metropolis algorithm estimating the shape of the target distribution and simultaneously coercing the acceptance rate. The adaptation rule is computationally simple ad...

Estimation of small failure probabilities is one of the most important and challenging problems in reliability engineering. In cases of practical interest, the failure probability is given by a high-dimensional integral. Since multivariate integration suffers from the curse of dimensionality, the usual numerical methods are inapplicable. Over the past decade, the civil engineering research comm...

Autoregressive fractional integrated moving average modeling strategy was used to model the daily average temperature (DAT) series of Sokoto metropolis for the period of 01/01/2003 to 03/04/2007. The time plot suggests that there is persistence dependence in the series. The order of fractional integration was found to be 0.6238841. The correct model for the daily average temperature data (DAT) ...

A cluster algorithm is presented for the Z 2 Kalb-Ramond plaquette model in four dimensions which dramatically reduces critical slowing. The critical exponent z is reduced from z > 2 (standard Metropolis algorithm) to z = 0.32 ± 0.06. The Cluster algorithm updates the monopole configuration known to be responsible for the second order phase transition.

The purpose of this study is to explore the key drivers and challenges of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) adoption by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana. SMEs play a major role in developing and developed economies in job creation and diversification of economic activities. The literature shows that while there are many drivers of ICTs a...

This paper deals with the asymptotic properties of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, when the distribution of interest is unknown, but can be approximated by a sequential estimator of its density. We prove that, under very simple conditions, the rate of convergence of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is the same as that of the sequential estimator when the latter is introduced as the reversib...