between the end of june and the middle of july 2011, an outbreak of cchf occurred in southern part of tehran, iran. this study reports clinical, laboratory fi ndings and outcome of six cases, who were all consanguine. index case who was livestock-worker died with hemorrhagic manifestations; thereafter his pregnant wife, three brothers, mother-in-law and his pregnant sister-in-law were admitted ...

background: neurologic literature on therapeutic effect of subcutaneous corticosteroids in patients with migrainous chronic daily headache is scarce. the aim of this research is to assess the therapeutic effects of this management in such patients. methods: consecutive patients with migrainous chronic daily headache enrolled a prospective before-after therapeutic study during 2010-2013. methylp...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to assess whether Fractal Dimension and Lacunarity analysis can discriminate patients having different mandibular cortical shape. METHODS Panoramic radiographs of 52 patients were evaluated for mandibular cortical index. Weighted Kappa between the observations were varying between 0.718-0.805. These radiographs were scanned and converted to binary images. Fractal Dimens...

Attackers in particular botnet controllers use stealthy messaging systems to set up large-scale command and control. Understanding the capacity of such communication channels is important in detecting organized cyber crimes. We analyze the use of domain name service (DNS) as a stealthy botnet command-and-control channel, which allows multiple entities to pass messages stored in DNS records to e...

We introduce and study very general stochastic positive linear operators induced by general positive linear operators that are acting on continuous functions. These are acting on the space of real differentiable stochastic processes. Under some very mild, general and natural assumptions on the stochastic processes we produce related stochastic Shisha–Mond type inequalities of L-type 1 ≤ q < ∞ a...

Collaboration in emergency logistics can be beneficial for governmental actors when supply chains need to set up immediately. In comparison research on humanitarian-business partnerships, the body of literature so-called Public–Private Emergency Collaborations (PPEC) remains scarce. Private companies are only rarely considered within collaborations, although they serve as an important chain eff...

The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modelled as a tree, where vertices correspond to words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies. It has been claimed recurrently that the number of edge crossings in real sentences is small. However, a baseline or null hypothesis has been lacking. Here we quantify the amount of crossings of real sentences and compare it to the predictions of a serie...