background according to statistics of american society of plastic surgeons, cosmetic rhinoplasty was the second most frequently performed cosmetic surgery. this study shares the experiences with component rhinoplasty. methods from 2004 to 2010, all patients underwent aesthetic nasal surgery were enrolled. the patients requiring only correction of septal deviation and those presenting with cleft...

Background: Emotional quotient is the ability to manage and control the anxiety, tension, hope and optimism in the face of obstacles on the way of achieving the purpose. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the emotional quotient and emotional maturity in the students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in 2016. Methods: The present study was a cros...

We show how to build a compressed index for the offline Order Preserving Pattern Matching problem. Our solution is based on the new approach of decomposing the sequence to be indexed into an order component, containing ordering information, and a δ component, containing information on the absolute values. The Order Preserving Matching problem is then transformed into an exact matching problem o...

background and aims: the aim of this study was the modeling of the incidence rates of colorectal, breast and prostate cancers using a shared component model in order to explore the spatial pattern of their shared risk factors (i.e., obesity and low physical activity) affecting on cancer incidence, and also to estimate the relative weight of these shared components. methods: in this study, the ...

eight selected heavy metals (cu, zn, pb, cd, cr, mn, fe and al) in surface and sub-surfacesediments in the northern coast of sfax (tunisia) were studied in order to assess the sediment quality and tohighlight the anthropogenic contributions to heavy metal distributions in the two study sediment levels.multiple chemometric approaches based on geographic information system (gis), enrichment facto...