The aim of the study was to determine differences in hand-grip strength and strength-related anthropometric parameters between highest-performance international paddlers (HILP) other (ILP) canoe slalom. In male competitors (n=48; 23 canoeists 25 kayakers) who took part 2018 European championship event slalom Prague, Czech Republic representing 15 countries were measured two days prior event. Di...

OBJECTIVE One problem existing in breast-conservation surgery is ipsilateral breast tumour recurrence, and one of its major risk factors is surgical margin positivity. We therefore investigated whether total-circumference surgical margin examination can reduce surgical margin-positive rates. METHODS A total of 122 cases were examined after BCS was performed between March 2004 and March 2006. ...

background: now the vast majority of breast tumors are treated using breast conservation therapy (bct) method, including lumpectomy and radiotherapy. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of intraoperative frozen section in patients undergoing breast conservation surgery. methods: totally 237 women who included in the category for breast conservative or oncoplastic surgery and post-operative...

in this paper, the static var compensator (svc) has been used to improve dynamic behaviour of power system. to do this, a new objective function is formulated considering power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement and loadability margin decrease. other contribution of this research is proposing a novel structure for particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm through modifying the initia...

conclusions the castings fabricated from the ringless technique with non-precious alloy are acceptable. this investing system is useable for the fabrication of fixed restorations. results after statistical evaluation, the following results were obtained: the mean vertical margin discrepancy for conventional investing was 156.72 ± 64.67µ; for the ringless technique it was 117.3 ± 26.77µ; and for...

this study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in abia state, nigeria. specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

gilan province is among the most important regions of iran for rice production. the general aim of this research is to determine the best variety of rice for planting, so that the minimum level for farmer's expected living gross margin can be provided. on the other hand, determining the best variety with regard to the risk in price is another aim of this research. to this end two risk models ba...

price transmission is one of the most important factors that affects the producers, consumers and marketing agents’ welfare. market structure affects price transmission. asymmetric price transmission affects the marketing margin, increases marketing agents’ profit and decreases producers and consumers’ welfare. in recent years high prices of beef has caused consumers’ dissatisfaction however, p...

This study investigated the fracture resistance and retention of endodontically treated roots with over-flared canals restored with different post systems, including one cast metal post and four fiber posts with/without auxiliary fiber posts. One hundred endodontically treated incisor roots were experimentally flared using a tapered diamond bur. The roots were restored using one of the five pos...