background: rna molecules play many important regulatory, catalytic and structuralroles in the cell, and rna secondary structure prediction with pseudoknots is one themost important problems in biology. an rna pseudoknot is an element of the rna secondary structure in which bases of a single-stranded loop pair with complementary basesoutside the loop. modeling these nested structures (pseudokno...

conclusions corticosteroid pulse therapy in spms was effective in inflammatory process, but could not postpone or decline the neurodegenerative process and besides the imposing side effects could not result in significant improvement in edss and mri plaques number in long term. patients and methods a double blind randomized controlled clinical trial was performed on 71 patients with spms referr...

in 1909, several years before the famous `organizer’ experiments of spemann and mangold, ethel browne demonstrated induction of a secondary axis in hydra by grafting a hypostome. based on this and subsequent work, in the late sixties, lewis wolpert proposed the theory of morphogen gradients and positional information. we have studied secondary axis induction by hypostome and foot tissue using t...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the reduction in excision cavity volume (ecv) during the whole breast radiotherapy (wbrt). the delineating of reduced cavity volume on secondary ct (computed tomography) might decrease the field size of boost plan. materials and methods: twenty patients were treated having breast conservative surgery. at first, primary ct simulation (ct-1) was d...

the shape of a submerged vane is a major factor in the design of a vane system and affects the performance and secondary currents generated by the vanes. this study investigated the effect of five vane shapes on bed sediment processes (local scour at the leading edge and transverse distribution of sediment downstream of the vanes) at four flow intensities for a total of 20 experiments. the resu...

background & aim: turmeric, scientifically named (curcuma longa l.), a member of ginger (zingiberaceae) family, is a perennial plant, with pharmaceutical properties and with a rhizome. this plant has many medicinal characteristics including anti-cancer, anti-bacteria and anti-hepatitis properties. experimental: to study the effects of gibberellic acid and salicylic acid on leaf, the rhizome...

various researches on laboratory and field scale illustrate that manipulating the ionic composition and the ion concentration of injected water can affect the efficiency of water flooding and the interaction of injected water with rock and other fluids present in porous media. the objectives of this paper are to investigate parameters that affect low salinity water flooding; mainly the effect o...

introduction: in cases of poor satisfaction with aphakic glasses and intolerant or reluctant to use contact lenses, secondary intraocular lens (iol) implantation provide an alternative aphakic vision correction. this study aimed to evaluate surgical problems.  intraoperative and postoperative complications and visual acuity outcomes of secondary anterior and posterior chamber intraocular lens i...