Consider measuring a vector x ∈ R through the inner product with several measurement vectors, a1, a2, . . . , am. It is common in both signal processing and statistics to assume the linear response model yi = 〈ai, x〉+ εi, where εi is a noise term. However, in practice the precise relationship between the signal x and the observations yi may not follow the linear model, and in some cases it may ...

BACKGROUND Approximately 27% of Americans today are obese, and this condition increases the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. The UK Prospective Diabetes Study suggests that loss of beta cell function can begin at least 10 years before diagnosis, and mean beta cell function is already less than 50% at diagnosis. The aim of this research was to assess the possibility of detecting lo...

employee empowerment is a new approach of internal motivation of job means to free internal energy of employee and also provides opportunities for them to actualize their talent, abilities and competencies. current research implemented within models of votten and kamron that implicate multi-dimensions of empowerment have four dimensions of feeling competent, feeling being meaningful, self-deter...

Introduction: Positive outcomes of breastfeeding on both mothers and neonates health are inevitable. Mother self-efficacy has a constructive role on initiating and continuing breastfeeding, in turn, it is influenced by several factors. The present study aimed to determine some risk factors associated with breastfeeding self-efficacy of mothers with hospitalized newborns.Materials and Methods: T...

Summary Studies on the causes of maternal mortality in India have focused on institutional deliveries, and the association of socioeconomic and demographic factors with the decline in maternal mortality has not been sufficiently investigated. By using both time series and cross-sectional data, this paper examines the factors associated with the decline in maternal mortality in India. Relative e...

INTRODUCTION Considering that empowering expectant mothers is an important issue to maintain a healthy pregnancy, this study was conducted to evaluate the predictors of empowerment among Iranian pregnant women. METHODS This cross sectional study was conducted in Golestan, North of Iran in 2015. A total number of 161 pregnant women were selected through random cluster sampling from urban healt...

The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system is the well established endocrine system having significant role in preserving hemodynamic stability. Renin is secreted from the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney. Phenylpiperazine derivatives have been reported as human renin inhibitor. To perform predictive QSAR modeling for 27 phenylpiperazine derivatives as renin enzyme inhibitors. The IC50 values ...

Objective(s): The main objective of this study was to investigate the variations of β-endorphin (β-EP), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) mice as well as the regulatory mechanism of prednison. Materials and Methods: Sixty BALB/c mice were randomly divided into control group, model group and prednison intervention grou...

introduction the environmental issues have been considered in all development plans of iran. for example, the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, and fiftieth principles of “iran constitution” directly refer to environmental issues. according to the future outlook of the islamic republic of iran “having the favorable living environment” is regarded as the characteristics of the iranian society in the h...