this article present the result from a study of two sediment cores collected from theenvironmentally distinct zones of ces. accumulation status of five toxic metals: cadmium (cd), chromium(cr), cobalt (co), copper (cu) and lead (pb) were analyzed. besides texture and chns were determined tounderstand the composition of the sediment. enrichment factor (ef) and anthropogenic factor (af) wereused ...

background: thrombophilia is a main predisposition to thrombosis due to a procoagulant state. several point mutations play key roles in blood-clotting disorders, which are grouped under the term thrombophilia. these thrombophilic mutations are methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (mthfr, c677t, and a1298c), factor v leiden (g1691a), prothrombin gene mutation (factor ii, g20210a), and plasminogen...

background: considering the increasing number of patients with hemophilia and infrastructure requirements for a comprehensive approach, development of a recombinant factor has become a milestone. the objective of this study was to assess the safety, efficacy and non inferiority of safacto (recombinant factor viii) compared with plasma-derived factor in the treatment of hemophilia a. methods: 10 ...

background: hemophilia b is a bleeding disorder with a recessive x-linked inheritance pattern, in which the infected individuals have low levels of factor ix in their plasma. affected individuals may have bleeding episodes after trauma or spontaneously considering the plasma level of factor ix. in order to prevent these episodes and to control bleeding, they should use coagulation factor concen...

In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a covertext in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or malicious attacks in an unfriendly environment. The watermarked signal can then be used for different purposes ranging from copyright protection, data authentication, fingerpri...

In this paper, we consider a scenario where a source node wishes to broadcast two confidential messages for two respective receivers, while a wire-tapper also receives the transmitted signal. This model is motivated by wireless communications, where individual secure messages are broadcast over open media and can be received by any illegitimate receiver. The secrecy level is measured by equivoc...

We thank Dr. Steil (1) for critically reviewing our study comparingmodel predictive control (MPC) and proportional integral derivative (PID) control for the artificial pancreas (2). We agree that MPC and PID both come in many variants and that there are many successful trials of PID control for automated insulin delivery. We acknowledged in our study that both controllers performed very well ov...

in this paper, an attempt has been made to introduce a new control strategy including plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (phev) and diesel engine generator to control the voltage and frequency of autonomous microgrids. the proposed control strategy has multiple advantages over the recent control methods in microgrids. the proposed method applies the primary and secondary frequency control strategy...

conclusions this study shows that bdnf and ngf expression decreases in diabetic neuropathy. however, this decrease can be reversed through endurance training. these results also indicate that endurance training may have a potential role in compensating for neurotrophin deficiency following diabetic neuropathy. objectives this experimental study was designed and carried out at the tarbiat modare...