In this report, optical scattering coefficient and phase retardation quantitatively estimated from polarization-sensitive OCT (PSOCT) were used for ovarian tissue characterization. A total of 33 ex vivo ovaries (normal: n = 26, malignant: n = 7) obtained from 18 patients were investigated. A specificity of 100% and a sensitivity of 86% were achieved by using estimated scattering coefficient alo...

reference evapotranspiration is an important parameter in irrigation systems' design that is evaluated through either direct (lysimeter) or calculated method (empirical equations). when there is a lack of lysimeters' data, penman monteith fao method could be employed as a standard method for evaluating the other empirical methods' results. in this research, 13 year evaporation pa...

financial and economic analysis of investment constitute an essential part of the decision making process. in this paper the feasibility of executing wastewater projects has been assessed using techniques of engineering economics including economic and financial analyses. primarily, the economic and financial assessments of a specific project in kalateh-khij city, with a population of five thou...

This is a modest review of a couple of papers devoted to an examination of neural specificity and invariance among microcircuits in neocortical columns and minicolums, and the loci of experience dependent plasticity and learning within and between these microcircuits. It focuses on somatosensory cortex, but the appendix covers visual research as well on some of the early work on these issues, f...

Climate change is projected to push the limits of cropping systems and has the potential to disrupt the agricultural sector from local to global scales. This article introduces the Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP), an initiative of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) to engage a global network of crop modelers to explore the impacts of climate ...

Several investigators have described methods for the preparation of vitamin Bil concentrates practically devoid of vitamin Bz.~ However, very little has been reported on methods for procuring a rich source of vitamin B, free from vitamin B,. Salmon, Guerrant, and Hays (1) have described a preparation, made from velvet bean leaves, relying upon the specificity of fullers’ earth adsorption, solub...

This paper studies an appropriate pharmacokinetic (PK) model for hypnosis control based on effect-site anesthetic concentration. For maintaining hypnosis, methods to keep plasma or effect-site concentration of propofol, an anesthetic drug, calculated using PK models at a target level are often used. In order to realize a desirable hypnosis control by such methods an accurate estimation of propo...

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results obtained with random and Latin hypercube sampling are compared. The comparison uses results from a model for two-phase fluid flow obtained with three independent random samples of size 100 each and three independent Latin hypercube samples (LHSs) of size 100 each. Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results with the two sampling procedures are simil...