This paper proposes a group decision making method based on entropy of neutrosophic linguistic sets and generalized single valued neutrosophic linguistic operators. This method is applied to solve the multiple attribute group decision making problems under single valued neutrosophic liguistic environment, in which the attribute weights are completely unknown. First, the attribute weights are ob...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies attempting to identify neuropathological alterations in the hippocampus in bipolar disorder have been inconclusive. The objective of this study was to determine if the concentration of N-acetylaspartate, a neuronal and axonal marker, was lower in subjects with familial bipolar I disorder than in healthy comparison subjects, suggesting possible neuronal loss, neuronal ...

background:living with patients of chronic diseases such as heart failure (hf) is a difficult situation for the caregivers. this study explored the iranian family caregivers’ burden of caregiving for patients with hf. materials and methods: eighteen family caregivers of the hf patients from two governmental medical training centers in isfahan, iran were recruited using purposive sampling. data ...

BACKGROUND Attentional bias toward sleep-related information is believed to play a key role in insomnia. If attentional bias is indeed of importance, changing this bias should then in turn have effects on insomnia complaints. In this double-blind placebo controlled randomized trial we investigated the efficacy of attentional bias modification training in the treatment of insomnia. METHOD We a...

Autodesk’s deployment of Systran’s machine translation (MT) technology is an early example of enterprise machine translation for multilingual customer support. IDC believes the implementation of MT by a company of Autodesk’s scale and global reach represents the beginning of new commercial opportunities for Systran and other MT vendors. The return on investment (ROI) for applications that subst...

background : in the current study, pattern of substance abuse among adolescence and early adulthood that have experienced one or more substances was assessed, and also parental support, religiosity, and locus of control were measured. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in hamadan city, iran in 2006. all subjects were selected from hama­dan city (urban area), iran based on snowba...

background: familial chylomicronemia syndrome is a rare disorder of lipoprotein metabolism due to familial lipoprotein lipase or apolipoprotein c-ii deficiency or the presence of inhibitors to lipoprotein lipase. it manifests as eruptive xanthomas, acute pancreatitis, and lipaemic plasma due to marked elevation of triglyceride and chylomicrons levels. case presentation: we report a rare case of...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is progressive and often fatal; causes of familial clustering of the disease are unknown. Germ-line mutations in the genes hTERT and hTR, encoding telomerase reverse transcriptase and telomerase RNA, respectively, cause autosomal dominant dyskeratosis congenita, a rare hereditary disorder associated with premature death from aplastic anemia and pulmonary...

Aberrant mammary tissue Nephrourinary malformation Polythelia Carlo Enrico Urbani, MD, Viale Pisa, 18, I-20146 Milan (Italy) In our previous survey, we discussed the clinicoepidemiological features regarding familial aberrant mammary tissue (AMT) by investigating 18 pedigrees out of a population of 156 adult Caucasian subjects [1], Among the main questions concerning familial AMT we also briefl...

BACKGROUND This study prospectively examines weight gain in breast cancer survivors compared with cancer-free women from a familial risk cohort. METHODS Absolute and percent weight change over 4 years was compared among 303 breast cancer survivors and 307 cancer-free women matched on age and menopausal status, from the same familial risk cohort. Linear and logistic regression was used to esti...