Background :Highserum level of cancer antigen 15.3 (CA15.3) has been reported in some malignant and nonmalignant conditions including thalassemia major which could have been resulted from ineffective erythropoiesis. We aimed to evaluate the serum level of CA15.3 in carriers of beta-thalassemia by comparing them with cancer patients and healthy individuals.   Methods : This cross-sectional stu...

The theory of Graph Minors by Robertson and Seymour is one of the deepest and significant theories in modern Combinatorics. This theory has also a strong impact on the recent development of Algorithms, and several areas, like Parameterized Complexity, have roots in Graph Minors. Until very recently it was a common belief that Graph Minors Theory is mainly of theoretical importance. However, it ...

results loss of consciousness (gcs drop or amnesia) was markedly associated with abnormal brain ct scan (p < 0.05). interestingly, we found 7 patients with normal clinical examination but significant abnormal brain ct scan. conclusions according to the results of our study, we recommend that all patients with minor head trauma underwent brain ct scan in order not to miss any life-threatening he...

BACKGROUND Since publication of the Duke criteria for diagnosing endocarditis, several articles have confirmed their sensitivity when native and prosthetic valves are considered together. OBJECTIVES To compare the differences between the older von Reyn criteria and the Duke criteria in prosthetic valve endocarditis only, and to determine if the latter's sensitivity could be improved by adding...

PURPOSE Different studies have described useful signs to diagnose psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES). A few authors have tried to describe the semiologic groups among PNES patients; each group consisting of combination of features. But there is no uniformity of nomenclature among these studies. Our aim was to find out whether the objective classification system proposed by Hubsch et al. w...

conclusions hemodialysis exacerbates oxidative stress and conformational changes of hb in patients with diabetes on hemodialysis. the frap value can be used as a positive determinant, while pco and hb derivatives can be used as negative determinants of oxidative stress in patients with diabetes. background diabetes is associated with an increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ros), whi...

Let P̄7 denote the complement of a path on seven vertices. We determine all 4-connected graphs that do not contain P̄7 as a minor.

This paper presents a novel reconstruction method that leverages Diffusion Models to protect machine learning classifiers against adversarial attacks, all without requiring any modifications the themselves. The susceptibility of models minor input perturbations renders them vulnerable attacks. While diffusion-based methods are typically disregarded for defense due their slow reverse process, th...

New X-ray and energetically optimal models of poly(dA):poly(dT) with the hydration spine in the minor groove have been compared with the NMR data in solution (Behling, R.W. and Kearns, D.R. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 3335-3346). These models have been refined to achieve a better fit with the NMR data. The obtained results suggest that the poly(dA):poly(dT) structure in a condensed state is similar...

Security or privacy-critical applications often require access to sensitive information in order to function. But in accordance with the principle of least privilege – or perhaps simply for legal compliance – such applications should not retain said information once it has served its purpose. In such scenarios, the timely disposal of data is known as an information erasure policy. This paper st...