Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become one of the most promising tools for rainfall simulation since a few years ago. However, most of the researchers have focused on rainfall intensity records as well as on watersheds, which generally are utilized as input records of other hydro-meteorological variables. The present study was conducted in Kechik station, Golestan Province (northern Iran...

Specific inbred strains and transgenic inhibin-α Simian Virus 40 T antigen (inhα/Tag) mice are genetically susceptible to gonadectomy-induced adrenocortical neoplasias. We identified altered gene expression in prepubertally gonadectomized (GDX) inhα/Tag and wild-type (WT) mice. Besides earlier reported Gata4 and Lhcgr, we found up-regulated Esr1, Prlr-rs1, and down-regulated Grb10, Mmp24, Sgcd,...

artificial neural networks (anns) have become one of the most promising tools for rainfall simulation since a few years ago. however, most of the researchers have focused on rainfall intensity records as well as on watersheds, which generally are utilized as input records of other hydro-meteorological variables. the present study was conducted in kechik station, golestan province (northern iran...

Abstract Background Molecular genetic diagnostics (GDx) is an increasingly used tool in the so-called ‘precision medicine'. For a structured implementation of GDx screening programmes (SP), organisational and ethical implications must be considered. Our research report addresses aspects different health care systems considerations context familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH)-a malfunction lipid ...

The amount of charge that is pushed by a moving scatterer is dQ= -GdX , where dX is the displacement of the scatterer. The question is: what is G ?. Does it depend on the transmission g(0) of the scatterer? Does the answer depend on whether the system is open (with leads attached to reservoirs) or closed? In the latter case what are the implications of having "quantum chaos" and/or coupling to ...

purpose : to compare retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) profile in subjects with myopia and emmetropia using gdx variable corneal compensator (vcc) methods : besides ophthalmologic standard examination (refraction, visual acuity and slit-lamp examination, applanation tonometry, and funduscopy), perimetry and scanning laser polarimetry (slp) were performed. 171 healthy age-matched subjects with lo...

In gonadectomized (GDX) animals replaced with subcutaneous steroid implants supplying physiological levels of testosterone (T; 1-10 ng/ml), the magnitude of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone (B) responses to restraint was negatively correlated with the level of T replacement, reflecting the inhibitory influence of T on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) responses to stress...

PURPOSE To determine the relationship between central corneal thickness (CCT) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness obtained by scanning laser polarimetry (GDx-VCC; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, California, USA), confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (HRT II; Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany), and optical coherence tomography (Stratus OCT; Carl Zeiss Meditec). DESIGN Multic...

PURPOSES To evaluate the retina nerve fiber layer by laser polarimetry in patients in chronic use of chloroquine. METHODS Forty-four eyes of twenty-two patients were studied. These were in use of chloroquine due to rheumatic diseases during at least one year. As a control group, twenty patients without use of chloroquine with similar characteristics (age, gender and race) were included. Patie...