in a comparative study, 460 serum samples were tested for the serological determination of human immunodeficiency vrius (hiv) using an elisa kit and a rapid test kit. results indicated that the rapid test is reliable for screening unkonwn samples when there is no special equipment for screening with immunoblotting and/or elisa.

family functioning among woman whit superior, ordinary and weak hijab. this is a causal-comparative descriptive study. the population includes all iranian females over 15 years of age from among whom a sample of 2868 subjects was selected using the stratified cluster random sampling method. the required data were collected using a demographic questionnaire. the obtained data were analyzed using...

In this paper, we study how to extract comparative sentences from Korean text documents. We decompose our task into three steps: 1) collecting comparative keywords; 2) extracting comparative-sentence candidates by keyword searching; 3) eliminating non-comparative sentences from these candidates using machine learning techniques. We perform various experiments to find relevant features. As a res...

In recent years, evidence has emerged regarding the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT). Despite growing evidence in this field, there is need for appropriate research designs that effectively reflect the person-centred system of care promoted in osteopathy and provide data which can inform policy decisions within the healthcare system. The purpose of this systematic revi...

Production of oxytetracycline by an isolated strain of Streptomyces rimosus from Iranian soil was investigated using a special fermentation medium. A comparative study was performed with standard strain PTCC 1144 using the following parameters optimum growth conditions with respect to time, pH, and different amounts of corn steep liquor. Surprisingly, the production yield of the wild strai...

This paper proposes how to automatically identify Korean comparative sentences from text documents. This paper first investigates many comparative sentences referring to previous studies and then defines a set of comparative keywords from them. A sentence which contains one or more elements of the keyword set is called a comparative-sentence candidate. Finally, we use machine learning technique...

The aim of the present study was the conducting of comparative analysis of allele pool of Ukrainian population of Thoroughbred horses and the populations from England, USA, Russia and South Korea using microsatellite loci of DNA on the basis of our own researches and literary sources. Comparative analysis of allele pool of Thoroughbred populations from different countries was conducted using 6 ...

introduction: hospitals are responsible to respond to legitimate demands for health information release while protecting the confidentiality of patient health records. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of health information disclosure for legal authorities in iran and some selected countries. methods: this descriptive-comparative study included health information disclosure...

in this study, the situation of iran, u.s and turkey's pistachio export is investigated. to this purpose, revealed comparative advantage (rca) index is calculated based on agricultural and total economy export, separately, then forecasted by using auto- regressive integrated moving average (arima) approached, for 2008-2013. the results show that considering both commodity baskets, turkey a...