Lung cancers remain one of the most common and deadly cancers in the world today (12.5% of newly diagnosed cancers) despite current advances in chemo- and radiation therapies. Often, by the time these tumors are diagnosed, they have already metastasized. These tumors demonstrate the classic hallmarks of cancer in that they have advanced defensive strategies allowing them to escape various stand...

Cellular channels during development and after peripheral nerve injury are thought to provide guidance cues to growing axons. In tissue culture where these cues are absent, neurites from dorsal root ganglion neurons grow with a radial distribution. To induce directional axonal growth and to enhance the rate of axonal growth after injury, we have designed microfilaments of poly(L-lactide). We de...

With the increase of transistors' density, popularity of System on Chip (SoC) has increased exponentially. As a communication module for SoC, Network on Chip (NoC) framework has been adapted as its backbone. In this paper, we propose a methodology for designing area-optimized application specific NoC while providing hard Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for real time flows. The novelty of th...

Homeless people have multiple barriers in accessing health care services, and health care providers' negative attitudes toward homeless people have been suggested as part of the problem. Studies on dental students' attitudes toward homeless people are lacking, so our aim was to understand dental students' attitudes. Dental students under the supervision of faculty members spent one day per week...

introduction: the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of stylohyoid ligament complex elongation in a group of iranian patients using digital panoramic radiographs. methods: panoramic radiographs of 1211 patients (684 females and 527 males) referred to the dental school of hamadan university of medical science were selected from 2011 to 2013. the stylohyoid ligament complexes wer...

The nonperturbative aspects of string theory are explored for noncritical string in two distinct formulations, loop equations and matrix models. The effects corresponding to the D-brane in these formulations are especially investigated in detail. It is shown that matrix models can universally yield a definite value of the chemical potential for an instanton while loop equations cannot. This imp...