background: the therapeutic administration of 131i for thyroid remnant ablation and for metastases comes up with some adverse effects. this study was conducted to investigate whether single high dose radioiodine therapy affects lacrimal gland functions or not. materials and methods: seventy-eight eyes of 39 patients, who were diagnosed as differentiated thyroid carcinoma, were objectively teste...

Observations of binaries have traditionally provided the means for ascertaining stellar masses. Here, we use the published data on 8 pre–main-sequence pairs to gauge the accuracy of our own, recently calculated, evolutionary tracks (Palla & Stahler 1999). We consider both eclipsing, double-lined spectroscopic binaries, which provide the mass of each star separately, and non-eclipsing, double-li...

In this paper we analyze the test power of SRAM memories and demonstrate that the full functional precharge activity is not necessary during test mode because of the predictable addressing sequence. We exploit this observation in order to minimize power dissipation during test by eliminating the unnecessary power consumption associated with the pre-charge activity. This is achieved through a mo...

This paper develops robust test procedures for testing the intercept of a simple regression model when it is apriori suspected that the slope has a specified value. Defining unrestricted test (UT), restricted test (RT) and pre-test test (PTT) corresponding to the unrestricted (UE), restricted (RE), and preliminary test estimators (PTE) in the estimation case, the M-estimation methodology is use...

Background: Neural mobilization techniques leads to facilitation of nerve gliding, reduction of nerve adherence, dispersion of noxious fluids, increased neural vascularity and improvement of axoplasmic flow. It has pronounced effects on monosynaptic H-reflex, which is an electrically induced reflex analogous to mechanically induced spinal stretch reflex. Thus, it is a reliable tool for the asse...