BACKGROUND Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) study or the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equations may not be accurate for Asians; thus, we developed modified eGFR equations for Taiwanese adults. METHODS This cross-sectional study compared the Taiwanese eGFR equations, the MDRD study, and the CKD-EPI...

The main purpose of this paper is to explain the factors affecting the change of service land uses in the city of Shiraz and identify its reasons. For this purpose, the second-order confirmatory factor analysis technique has been used as one of the structural equation modeling techniques to determine the severity of the effect of the four factors on land use change, through which a contributing...

Patellar tendon moment arm length (PTma) changes at different knee flexion angles have not been determined in invivo studies. We aimed to determine PTma in four different knee angles using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) topredict in vivo changes in the moment arm length from different knee angles during running.PTma was measured as the perpendicular distance from muscle–tend...

The numerical forecasts made in 1950 using the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) paved the way for the remarkable advances that have been made over the past half-century in weather prediction and climate modeling. We review the circumstances in which the forecasts were made, the nature of the ENIAC machine, and the roles of the people involved. The basis for the forecasts was...

The Klein-Gordon equation is known in quantum field theory that does not account the changes of space metrics and changes of particles behavior connected with it [1]. Such dynamics is describing by Einsteins equation or Brans-Dicke equation [2]. Wheeler de Witt occupies place of these equations in quantum theory that is generalization of Klein-Gordon equation for the case of general relativity ...

We solve the inverse scattering problem for multidimensional vector fields and we use this result to construct the formal solution of the Cauchy problem for the second heavenly equation of Plebanski, a scalar nonlinear partial differential equation in four dimensions relevant in General Relativity, which arises from the commutation of multidimensional Hamiltonian vector fields.

A new formalism is introduced for the transfer of polarized radiation. Stokes parameters are shown to be four– vectors in a Minkowski-like space and, most strikingly, the radiative transfer equation (RTE) turns out to be an infinitesimal transformation under the Poincaré (plus dilatations) group. A solution to the transfer equation as a finite element of this group is proposed.

The facility interest rate is one of the most important macroeconomic variables. The bank facility interest rate is associated with other macro-economic variables, one of which is the bank deposit interest rate. Using the time series data of the 1973-2017 period and the simultaneous equation system, the researchers estimated four equations using the three-stage least squares method.The result o...

With the help of the complex structure and the wave operator of the nonlinear classical Klein-Gordon equation with the interaction u4 we define the Wick kernel of the interacting quantum field in four-dimensional space-time and consider its properties. In particular, the diagonal of this Wick kernel is (real) solutions of the classical nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with the interaction u4.