Objectives: In this study, beta-Thalassemia Major (BTM) diagnosed patients and their parents were subjected to DNA sequencing in order confirm diagnosis, improve treatment determine the mutation distributions of both parents.
 Methods: A total 90 people, BTM (n=30) (n=60), included study. For all analyses, two blood samples taken into EDTA-containing tubes from each parents. Complete count...

BACKGROUND Few series comparing the clinical efficacy of retropubic slings versus transobturator slings for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are available. OBJECTIVE To compare clinical efficacy of retropubic tape operations and transobturator suburethral tape operations for the surgical treatment of female SUI. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS From January 2003 to...

This paper presents an intelligent video sensor (IVS) and possible applications in traffic surveillance. The IVS combines video sensing with video processing and data communication. It will be realized as embedded system and captures a video stream, computes traffic information and transfers the compressed video stream and the traffic information to the base station.

Complex Network Theory (CNT) studies network models and centrality metrics to deal with reliability/vulnerability assessment in networked systems. Classic CNT analyses evaluate the impact of failure single vertices/edge elements on system connectivity assuming that all vertices/nodes have same relevance. In Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), Isolation Valve System (IVS) plays a crucial role fo...

Iridoviruses (IVs) are classified into five genera: Iridovirus and Chloriridovirus, whose members infect invertebrates, and Ranavirus, Lymphocystivirus, and Megalocytivirus, whose members infect vertebrates. Until now, Chloriridovirus was the only IV genus for which a representative and complete genomic sequence was not available. Here, we report the genome sequence and comparative analysis of ...

BACKGROUND Myocardial contractility can be investigated using longitudinal peak strain. It can be calculated using the Doppler-derived TDI method and the non-Doppler method based on tissue tracking on B-mode images. Both are validated and show good reproducibility, but no comparative analysis of their results has yet been conducted. This study analyzes the results obtained from the basal segmen...

In Asiacrypt 2010, Knellwolf, Meier and Naya-Plasencia proposed distinguishing attacks on Grain v1 when (i) Key Scheduling process is reduced to 97 rounds using 2 chosen IVs and (ii) Key Scheduling process is reduced to 104 rounds using 2 chosen IVs. Using similar idea, Banik obtained a new distinguisher for 105 rounds. In this paper, we show similar approach can work for 106 rounds. We present...

Since 2003, the Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland (CM) governments have established Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) which simplifies the process for CM people to visit Hong Kong. The resulting tremendous increase of CM tourists affects significantly the Hong Kong fashion retailing industry (HKFRI). In this research note, we study the challenges and opportunities brought by IVS for HKFRI. Recomme...

The widespread practice of quoting option prices in terms of their Black-Scholes implied volatilities (IVs) in no way implies that market participants believe underlying returns to be lognormal. On the contrary, the variation of IVs across option strike and term to maturity, which is widely referred to as the volatility surface, can be substantial. In this brief review, we highlight some empiri...

Interest in autonomous driving (AD) and intelligent vehicles (IVs) is growing at a rapid pace due to the convenience, safety, economic benefits. Although number of surveys have reviewed research achievements this field, they are still limited specific tasks lack systematic summaries directions future. Our work divided into 3 independent articles first part Survey Surveys (SoS) for total technol...