A Markov process with several absorbent states is applied for analyzing a breast cancer dataset. The study examines the evolution of patients until death, and shows that two well-differentiated ways can be considered in the evolution of patients towards the death state: those who relapse and those who not. The risk groups we have considered are determined by the application of treatments radiot...

I describe a method to measure blood coagulation properties, based on the hypothesis that the distance the serum component of a clotted plasma sample moves through a suitable absorbent material should be proportional to the blood's ability to clot. A simple apparatus was constructed to test this principle, in which an absorbent strip contacts clotted plasma samples. At various times, the liquid...

Ignitable Liquid Absorbent (ILA), a commercial solid absorbent intended to assist fire scene investigators in sample location and collection, has been field tested in three separate room fires. The ability of the ILA to detect and absorb different amounts of gasoline, odorless paint thinner, and camp fuel on two different substrates after a full-scale burn was assessed against results from an a...

drought stress is one of the most important problems of agriculture and an important factor of plant product reduction. application of absorbent materials can help usage of sporadic rain fall and cause more maintenance of water storage. in order to study the effect of super absorbent polymer, potassium sulfate and manure under drought condition and favorable irrigation on some traits of foxtail...

Inadequate menstrual hygiene management (MHM) practices have been associated with adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to describe MHM among schoolgirls from rural Gambia and assess risk factors urogenital infections depressive symptoms. A cross-sectional was conducted adolescent in thirteen schools Gambia. questionnaire used collect information on socio-demographics, clinical symptoms of ...

this research was carried out to evaluate the effect of super-absorbent and manure on growth, yield, physiological and biochemical characteristics of geranium under deficit irrigation at research greenhouse of faculty of agriculture, lorestan university, iran, in 2014. the experiment was arranged factorially based on a completely randomized design with six replications. factor a was substrate c...

one fundamental strategy for increasing efficiency of plans which aim to develop natural resources is decreasing water loss and using this restricted water optimally. in arid and semi-arid regions such as a large part of iran, increasing period of irrigation which results in decreasing the irrigation costs, without causing water stress to planted sapling is a vital task. in this research we exa...