the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of ethanolic extract of murraya koenigii leaves (mkl) on blood glucose level and in prevention or management of diabetic neuropathy. in the present study the diabetic neuropathy was developed 9 weeks after single injection of streptozotocin (stz, 70 mg/kg i.v.) in rat. the treatment with mkl (300 and 500 mg/kg p.o.) was started after stabi...

background: glasgow coma scale is considered as the common measuring tool of consciousness level. however, its utilization has been criticized in some cases and the use of alternative tools for determining consciousness level is recommended. so, this study was conducted to analyze correlation between the instruments with physiological indicators for determining the altered level of consciousnes...

Presenting structural damage detection problem as an inverse model-updating approach is one of the well-known methods which can reach to informative features of damages. This paper proposes a model-based method for fault prognosis in engineering structures. A new damage-sensitive cost function is suggested by employing the main concepts of the Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) on the first severa...

in this paper, the capabilities of displacement curvature derived from static response data for finding the location and severity of damage in euler-bernoulli beams are assessed. static response of a beam is obtained using the finite element modeling. in order to reduce the number of measured nodal displacements, the beam deflection is fitted through a polynomial function using a limited number...

normal skin is composed of epidermis and dermis. skin is susceptible to radiation damage because it is a continuously renewing organ containing rapidly proliferating mature cells. radiation burn is a damage to the skin or other biological tissues caused by exposure to radiofrequency energy or ionizing radiation. acute skin reaction is the most frequently occurring side effect of radiation thera...

current study was aimed to evaluating protective effects of cornus mas fruit extract (cmfe) in mice treated with methotrexate (mtx). for this purpose, 48 young mature male mice were divided into 6 groups. control group received only normal saline (0.1 mlper day, intraperitoneally), and the second group was administered mtx (20 mg kg-1 perweek, intraperitoneally). the third, fourth and fifth gro...

A model for investigation of the optimal economic life cycle of grass leys with winter damage problems in northern Norway and the threshold of winter damage before it is profitable to reseed grasses is presented. A 2-level hierarchic Markov process has been constructed using the MLHMP software. The model takes uncertainty concerning the yield potential, damage estimation and weather dependent r...

In the framework of the European SCenarios for tsunami Hazard-induced Emergencies MAnagement (SCHEMA) project (www.schemaproject.org), we empirically developed new tsunami damage functions to be used for quantifying the potential tsunami damage to buildings along European-Mediterranean coasts. Since no sufficient post-tsunami observations exist in the Mediterranean areas, we based our work on d...