background: hemodialysis patients are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease. higher than expected cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in this population has been attributed to dislipidemia as well as inflammation. the causes of inflammation in hemodialysis patients are multifactorial. several markers were used for the detection of inflammatory reaction in patients with chronic renal dise...

analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. in this study, the land use maps in the ardabil plain in north-west part of iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. t...

Pricing Prototypical Products When we think of colas, Coca-Cola first comes to mind. Products such as Cola-Cola, Tide laundry detergent and Chapstick lip balm are the prototypical products in their respective categories. Over three decades, research in consumer psychology has accumulated evidence on how prototypicality structures memory, shapes the composition of consideration set and influence...