cox regression model serves as a statistical method for analyzing the survival data, which requires some options such as hazard proportionality. in recent decades, artificial neural network model has been increasingly applied to predict survival data. this research was conducted to compare cox regression and artificial neural network models in prediction of kidney transplant survival. the prese...

liver or hepatic transplantation (lt) is the replacement of a diseased liver with part or whole healthy liver from another person (allograft). human liver transplants were first performed by thomas starzl in the united states and roy calne in cambridge, england in 1963 and 1967, respectively. liver transplantation is a viable treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure....

the effects of weight and length of barbus grypus broodstock on fingerlings reproductive characteristics and growth were investigated. we chose three female treatments  including weight and length groups (1) 2212.5±479g,  62.68±6.7cm, (2) 4518±780g,  79.12±4.36cm  and (3) 7712.5±1171g, 92.62±3.13cm. the same male broodstock were used for all the treatments with the weight and length size of 140...

background: astronauts will be exposed to both chronic space radiation and acute high doses of energetic radiation of solar particle events in long-term deep space missions. the application of radioprotectors in space missions has basic limitations such as their very short time window as well as their acute toxicity and considerable side effects. the aim of the present study was to investigate ...

background: in some areas of ramsar, a city in northern iran, residents receive a much higher annual radiation exposure than is permitted for radiation workers. induction of adaptive response in residents of ramsar has been reported previously. in this study induction of such a response in short term exposure to high background levels of gamma radiation is investigated. materials and methods: f...

background: inflammatory breast cancer (ibc), a subgroup of locally advanced breast cancer (labc), is diagnosed based on clinical findings, and seems to be different from other types of labc. the purpose of this study was to compare clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes between inflammatory and non-inflammatory labc patients at breast cancer research center (bcrc), tehran, iran. meth...

this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of beta plus probiotic, a mixture of bacillius leicheniformic and bacillius subtilis , on the growth performance and intestinal microbial flora of caspian trout ( salmo caspius ). a basal diet was formulated and supplemented with beta plus at 0, 0.5 and 1 g kg -1 , leading to three experimental diets. each experimental diet was randomly assigned ...

background: unlike industrially production, iranian traditional doogh are not pasteurized after production. hence, possible contamination with different pathogenic bacteria may occur during production or post-production of traditional doogh. the aim of the present study was to monitor the behavior of escherichia coli o157:h7 and listeria monocytogenes in traditional iranian doogh at different t...

background breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. based on the latest iranian national cancer department report, the total number of women registered with breast cancer was 6976 cases during 2007. five year survival is one of the indicators used for evaluation of the quality for care to different types of malignancies including breast cancer. objectives the aim of this s...

the data set employed in this study was comprised of a number of 6,800 records of lamb’s longevity and their survival rate, collected from 1989 through 2009, from the lori-bakhtiari experimental flock at the shooli station in shahrekord, iran. the data were analyzed using linear models and proportional hazard models with weibull function. these models included fixed factors and direct additive ...