Background & Aims: Influenza viruses are important causes of mortality and morbidity in children. The aim of this study was to assess the presence of antibodies (IgG) against Influenza A in children in Kerman, Iran. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 200 children aged 4-14 years referred to Besaat Clinic and Afzalipour hospital for diseases other than influenza were enrolled. Sera were tested...

The objective of the study was to assess the carboplatin sustained-release (CSR) as an injectable, biodegradable polymer system designed to uniformly release carboplatin over 30 days at a dose of 350 mg m-2. The study involved seven client-owned dogs with histologically or cytologically confirmed neoplasia that were treated with CSR intramuscularly. Platinum levels were measured at days 0, 7, 1...

The P -Eulerian polynomial counts the linear extensions of a labeled partially ordered set, P , by their number of descents. It is known that the P -Eulerian polynomials are real-rooted for various classes of posets P . The purpose of this paper is to extend these results to polynomials in several variables. To this end we study multivariate extensions of P -Eulerian polynomials and prove that ...

The method of positive commutators, developed for zero temperature problems over the last twenty years, has been an essential tool in the spectral analysis of Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics. We extend this method to positive temperatures, i.e. to non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. We use the positive commutator technique to give an alternative proof of a fundamental property of a...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of levodopa-carbidopa on improvement of visual acuity, color vision, and visual field in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (naion) with onset less than 6 wks. methods: in this double-blind randomized controlled trial, 13 patients were treated with levodopa-carbidopa and 12 patients were treated with placebo for 3 weeks. after 6 months,...