water is one of the most vital constituents in plants. in this research, for an estimation of leaf moisture content, the variation of capacitance was employed. the variations were measured via designed and manufactured capacitive sensors. the objective of the research was to estimate leaf moisture content by measuring its capacitance for five agronomic crops. experiments for measuring leaf capa...

background: preeclampsia (pe) is one of the most complex and life-threatening pregnancy disorders and is considered as a major cause of mortality among mothers and fetuses worldwide. although the exact etiology of pe is not well known several lines of evidence support an immunological etiology for pe. objective: to investigate the differences in the expression of tlrs 2, 4, 5, and 6 and a group...

in this paper, using the tight-binding model, we extend the real-space renormalization group method to time-dependent hamiltonians. we drive the time-dependent recursion relations for the renormalized tight-binding hamiltonian by decimating selective sites of lattice iteratively. the formalism is then used for the calculation of the local density of electronic states for a one dimensional quant...

This work presents a model for electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistors (EGFETs) that incorporates the effects of the double layer capacitance and the quantum capacitance of graphene. The model is validated through experimental graphene EGFETs, which were fabricated and measured to provide experimental data and extract graphene EGFET parameters such as mobility, minimum carrier conce...

BACKGROUND Evaluation of different molecular tests for the detection of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus is important before the next wave of the pandemic. OBJECTIVES To compare a hydrolysis probe-based real-time RTPCR assay recommended by the CDC to the xTAG respiratory viral panel (RVP) (Luminex Molecular Diagnostics) for the detection of influenza A. METHODS Eleven thousand eight hundred and n...

The role of infection in erythropoietic dysfunction is poorly understood. In children with P. falciparum malaria, the by-product of hemoglobin digestion in infected red cells (hemozoin) is associated with the severity of anemia which is independent of circulating levels of the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis alpha (TNF-α). To gain insight into the common and specific effects of TNF-α and h...