BACKGROUND Glucose meter performance is commonly measured in several different ways, including the relative bias and coefficient of variation (CV), the total error, the mean absolute relative deviation (MARD), and the size of the interval around the reference value that would be necessary to contain a meter measurement at a specified probability. This fourth measure is commonly expressed as a p...

We address the problem of proving the equivalence of two recursive functions that have different base-cases and/or are not in lockstep. None of the existing software equivalence checkers (like rêve , rvt, Symdiff), or general unbounded software model-checkers (like Seahorn, HSFC, Automizer) can prove such equivalences. We show a proof rule for the case of different base cases, based on separati...

Introduction Functional connectivity analysis has been used to map several consistent resting state networks by exploiting coherent low-frequency fluctuations in the BOLD signal. The assumption in most of the fMRI literature is that these correlated fluctuations are neuronal in origin. Others sources of low-frequency fluctuations exist in fMRI data that are unrelated to neuronal activity. These...

In present investigation liquisolid compact technique is investigated as a tool for enhanced dissolution of poorly water-soluble drug Rosuvastatin calcium (RVT). The model drug RVT, a HMG-Co A reductase inhibitor was formulated in form of directly compressed tablets and liquisolid compacts; and studied for in-vitro release characteristics at different dissolution conditions. In this technique, ...

20 Supernumerary chromosomes have been shown to transfer horizontally from 21 one isolate to another. However, the mechanism by which horizontal chromosome 22 transfer (HCT) occurs is unknown. In this study, we compared the genomes of 11 23 isolates comprising six Fusarium species that cause soybean sudden death syndrome 24 (SDS) or bean root rot (BRR), and detected numerous instances of HCT in...

eight accessions of thyme medicinal plant, belonging to iranian endemic thymus daënensis, t. eriocalyx, t. migricus and an unknown thymus spp species, were tested for karyotypic analysis, using squash technique and 2% (w/v) aceto-orcein staining method. chromosomal parameters examined were: short arm (s), long arm (l), total length of chromosome (tl), arm ratio (ar), r-value, total chromosome v...

Few studies have examined heat vulnerability on a sub-metropolitan area level. This paper presents an analysis of heat vulnerability across Ohio (USA) on a county level. Each county is classified as ‘urban’, ‘suburban’, or ‘rural’. Four different criteria defining what is meteorologically ‘oppressive’ are evaluated individually. Each of these criteria is associated with an increase in mortality...