conclusions the newly developed simple indirect elisa showed high sensitivity and specificity with respect to vnt. developing such a simple, sensitive, and specific elisa which is much less expensive than the available commercial elisa kits can improve the detection of bvdv infections, help to eliminate the disease from herds, and decrease economic losses caused by this disease. background bovi...

abstract icssdom is a mathematical synthetic model that was written with fortran77 and in which used sa simulation annealing algorithm like an internal loop in basic structure of icss hydrodynamic simulation model. this model presented by mohseni movahed in 1381. this model is able assess current performance and present optimal operation considering downstream requirement of turnout in real con...

dna typing is a new method with important applications in forensic medicine. in the present study, we evaluated application of dna typing in iran. loci hum lpl, hum tpox, hum f13, hum vw 31a, hum th01 and hum fes/fps of dna short tandem repeats were studied. to determine sensitivity of the test, 85 mother-child couples (1020 chromosomes) that were referred to dna section of legal medicine organ...

An integrated fuzzy guidance (IFG) law for a surface to air homing missile is introduced. The introduced approach is a modification of the well-known proportional navigation guidance (PNG) law. The IFG law enables the missile to approach a high maneuvering target while trying to minimize control effort as well as miss-distance in a two-stage flight. In the first stage, while the missile is far ...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the best parameters for rapid performance of daily quality control testing of intrinsic uniformity and relative sensitivity for the single-head gamma-camera system in our nuclear medicine department. METHODS The effects of the following parameters on intrinsic uniformity were studied: gamma source activity, number of acquired counts for the flood image, source...

BACKGROUND Although testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) has higher sensitivity and lower specificity than cytology alone for detecting cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), studies comparing conventional and liquid-based cytology have had conflicting results. METHODS In the first phase of a two-phase multicenter randomized controlled trial, women aged 35-60 years in the conventional ar...

objective(s): the aim of this study was to analyze detection rates and effectiveness of 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (fdg-pet) cancer screening program for prostate cancer in japan, which is defined as a cancer-screening program for subjects without known cancer. it contains fdg-pet aimed at detection of cancer at an early stage with or without additional screening tests ...

reference evapotranspiration is an important parameter in irrigation systems' design that is evaluated through either direct (lysimeter) or calculated method (empirical equations). when there is a lack of lysimeters' data, penman monteith fao method could be employed as a standard method for evaluating the other empirical methods' results. in this research, 13 year evaporation pa...