Background/Objective: Development of a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for screening human blood serum and plasma for antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV1) and type 2 (HIV2) as HIV1/2REC ELISA diagnostic kit based on E. coli derived soluble recombinant proteins. Methods: Polypeptides corresponding to HIV1 gp41 and HIV2 gp36 immunodominant regions and HIV1 gag we...

Brucellosis is considered a known widespread zoonotic disease and is endemic in Mediterranean region, like Iran. This study reviewed the clinical manifestations, laboratory findings, and therapeutic regimen in childhood brucellosis in Iran. In this retrospective study, we reviewed hospital-records of 34 consecutive children with a confirmed diagnosis of brucellosis among a total number of 10,86...

Analysis of inventory systems involving market-oriented pricing decisions has recently become an interesting topic in the field of inventory control. Price and marketing expenditure are considered as important elements when selling goods and enhancing revenues by manufacturers. The importance of accounting for uncertainty in such environments spurs an interest to develop appropriate decision ma...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...

To improve accuracy and reliability, Boolean combination (BC) can efficiently integrate the responses of multiple biometric systems in the ROC space. However, BC techniques assume that recognition systems are conditionally-independent and that their ROC curves are convex. These assumptions are rarely valid in practice, where systems face complex environments, and are designed using limited enro...

Abstract The recent targeted strike resulting in the death of Qassem Soleimani has received extensive attention for its violations international law by US. However, one area that not been considered following 3 January 2020 attack is possible consequences this may have Iran's nuclear non-proliferation legal obligations. Iranian officials previously alluded to possibility Iran withdrawing from T...

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...