Trends in Internet infrastructure indicate that organizations with mission-critical needs are outsourcing applications to a small number of Internet data center providers. These providers operate networks and services at a global scale, and offer customers (and other service providers) a variety of services ranging from high bandwidth networking to fullfledged application hosting and IT managem...

We study a specific family of uniformly isochronous polynomial systems. Our results permit us to solve a problem about centers of such systems. We consider the composition conjecture for uniformly isochronous polynomial systems.

Pituitary tumors and associated neuroendocrine disorders pose significant challenges in diagnostic and therapeutic management. Optimal care of the "pituitary patient" is best provided in a multidisciplinary collaborative environment that includes not only experienced pituitary practitioners in neurosurgery and endocrinology, but also in otorhinolaryngological surgery, radiation oncology, medica...

the objective of this study was to develop a cost minimizing pattern for cube sugar and sugar transportation from production centers to refinement and storage centers and finally to distribution and consumption  centers in  fars province. producing centers are marvdasht (27.3%), eghlid (27.9%), fasa (11.3%), kavar (7.3%) and mamasani (20.2%). some of the province’s cube sugar and sugar is provi...

abstract background and objective: proficiency testing schemes as a part of quality system in clinical and research laboratory centers provides the opportunity to evaluate the quality of test results. in this paper, we try to introduce the proficiency testing schemes as a useful method for achieving standardization and homogenization of test results in clinical and research laboratory centers. ...