background: in this study, the presence of resistance to diclazuril, amprolium+ethopabate and salinomycin, representing some of the commonest anticoccidials in iran’s poultry industry, against three mixed eimeria field isolates were investigated. methods: three eimeria field isolates, collected from typical broiler farms in iran, were propagated once, inoculated to 480 broilers, comprising 30 c...

Background. Insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion are traits that are both genetically and environmentally deter-

We examined the unique contributions of depression, anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity (AS) in predicting frequency of drinking in different high-risk situations among 60 women receiving treatment for alcohol problems. Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II, Beck Anxiety Inventory, Anxiety Sensitivity Index, and Short Form Inventory of Drinking Situations (IDS-42). Together, the ...

This study presents improved understanding of sensitivity analysis methods through a comparison of the local sensitivity and two global sensitivity analysis methods: the Morris and Sobol′/Saltelli methods. We re-interpret the variance-based sensitivity indices from the Sobol′/Saltelli method as difference-based measures. It suggests that the difference-based local and Morris methods provide the...

Environmental Sensitivity Indices (ESI) composed of many field-data are essential for monitoring and control systems. At the beginning of the last decade an ESI of the German Wadden Sea was developed for use by the relevant authorities. This ESI was derived by experts semi-manually analysing the extensive field data-set. An algorithm is presented here which emulates human expert-decisions on th...

The classical minimal model (MM) index of insulin sensitivity, S(I), does not account for how fast or slow insulin action takes place. In a recent work, we proposed a new dynamic insulin sensitivity index, S(I)(D), which is able to take into account the dynamics of insulin action as well. The new index is a function of two MM parameters, namely S(I) and p(2), the latter parameter governing the ...