BACKGROUND Malformations of cortical development (MCDs) are a major source of handicap. Much progress in understanding the genetic causes has been made recently. The number of affected children in whom a molecularly confirmed diagnosis can be made is unclear. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the etiology of MCDs in children and the effect of a combined radiological, clinical, and syndrome classification...

TLR4 plays a central role in resistance to pyelonephritis caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). It has been suggested that renal tubule epithelial cells expressing TLRs may play a key role in inflammatory disorders and in initiating host defenses. In this study we used an experimental mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection to show that UPEC isolates preferentially adhered t...

In recent years, we have witnessed a massive acquisition of data and increasing need to support multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) queries efficiently. Pareto-optimal also known as skyline queries is a popular class of MCDS queries and has received a lot of attention resulting in a flurry of efficient skyline algorithms. The vast majority of such algorithms focus entirely on the input being...

In this contribution, we consider the effect of timing jitter on the performance of the multicarrier direct-sequence CDMA (MCDS-CDMA) system and compare the results for uplink and downlink transmission, assuming orthogonal spreading sequences. Theoretical expressions are derived for the performance degradation caused by the timing jitter, in the presence of a multipath channel. Assuming an AWGN...

To improve the efficiency of routing and broadcast and reducing energy consumption in the process of data transmission, calculating minimum connected dominating set is always used to construct virtual backbone network in wireless sensor networks. Calculating the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS) of plane graphs is a NPcomplete problem. In this paper, an algorithm leveraging 1hop neighborh...

in this paper, efforts are made to compare the safety of steel moment resistant frames designed according to different editions of the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings. also, failure risk of a low and medium height frame which designed for high and low seismicity regions according to three editions of the code are evaluated. first, the testing cases were design...