Objective: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the pulsatile index in umbilical artery (PI-UA) and pulsatile index in middle cerebral artery (PI-MCA) in detecting IUGR by comparing it with the birth weight. Study Design: Validation study. Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted in Department of Radiology, Military Hospital and Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi, which wa...

Water quality assessment at the watershed scale requires not only an investigation of water pollution and the recognition of main pollution factors, but also the identification of polluted risky regions resulted in polluted surrounding river sections. To realize this objective, we collected water samplings from 67 sampling sites in the Honghe River watershed of China with Grid GIS method to ana...

Results: The mean values of peak systolic velocity, pulsatility index (PI) and resistive index (RI) of capsular artery (CA) and intratesticular artery (ITA) decreased significantly after LV and MV, whereas no significant change was observed in end-diastolic velocity. Comparing between two groups, the PI and RI values of left CA and ITA on 3rd month and of ITA on 6 month postoperatively in MV gr...

A non-destructive cultivation system was developed to study the dynamics of phosphorus (Pi) uptake by mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal maize plantlets. The system consisted of a plant container connected via silicon tubes to a glass bottle containing a nutrient solution supplemented with Pi. The nutrient solution is pumped with a peristaltic pump to the upper part of the container via the silico...

RATIONALE α1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is one of the commonest rare respiratory disorders worldwide. Diagnosis, assessment of risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and management of replacement therapy require the availability of precise and updated ranges for protein serum levels. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to provide ranges of serum AAT according to the main ge...

Nitrogen components of yoghurt milk samples and resulting probiotic set yoghurt weredetermined. Analyses included total nitrogen (TN), non-casein nitrogen (NCN), non-proteinnitrogen (NPN), casein nitrogen (CN) and proteolysis index (PI). Yoghurt samples wereanalyzed 1, 7, 14 and 21days after production and storage at 5±1°C. TN, CN and PI contentsof yoghurt milk samples with high Somatic Cell SC...

the present study aims to analyze the existing indoor environmental conditions of firozabad city along with its impact on people’s health by going through the correlative index of indoor environment’s determinant and different diseases, faced by the people. in order to measure spatial disparities, the statistical technique, i.e. the standard score additive model (z- score), has been applied to ...

this study proposes a method employing thermogravimetric analysis (tg) to predict pollutionlevels by heavy metals (cr, cu, ni, zn, pb, cd and hg) in port sediments close to urban and industrial sitesfrom bay of cádiz. for this purpose, the thermogravimetric results of 14 sediment samples were recorded andshowed two characteristic ranges of temperatures (w1 as weight loss, %: 200-650°c) vs. (w2 ...

Twenty harpy eagles (Harpia harpyja) without systemic or ocular diseases were examined to measure blood velocity parameters of the pectinis oculi artery using Doppler ultrasonography. Pectinate artery resistive index (RI) and pulsatility index (PI) were investigated using ocular Doppler ultrasonography. The mean RI and PI values across all eyes were 0.44±0.10 and 0.62±0.20 respectively. Low RI ...

background : studies have shown that noise pollution has harmful effects on human health. the sound of traffic is the main source of noise pollution in cities. the purpose of this study was to determine noise pollution using a geographical information system (gis) in the main streets of kashan, iran. methods: in this study, 180 noise samples were collected from 20 regions of the main streets in...