background since genetic and most environmental factors shape the context of families, some studies have been initiated to investigate the role of familial relationships in metabolic syndrome (mets). objectives to estimate the familial aggregation of mets and its components by identifying both case and control probands among tehranian adults with different socio-behavioral and reproductive char...

effects of different tillage systems on dispersion ratio, status of aggregation, degree of aggregation, mean weight diameter, geometric diameter, the rain-fed wheat yield and the yield components were investigated by a field trial using a completely randomized block design with five treatments in four replicates during 2009-2010 growing season at gorgan university of agricultural science and na...

fuzzy relation inequalities based on max-f composition are discussed, where f is a binary aggregation on [0,1]. for a fixed fuzzy relation inequalities system $ a circ^{f}textbf{x}leqtextbf{b}$, we characterize all matrices $ a^{'} $ for which the solution set of the system $ a^{' } circ^{f}textbf{x}leqtextbf{b}$ is the same as the original solution set. similarly, for a fixed matrix ...

protein aggregation is a serious problem for both biotechnology and cell biology. diseases such as prion misfolding, alzheimer’s, and other amyloidosis are phenomena for which protein aggregation in our living cells is of considerable relevance. human lysozyme has been shown to form amyloid fibrils in individuals suffering from nonneuropathic systemic amyloidosis, all of which have point mutati...

while ignoring income distribution and estimating aggregate demand generally leads to aggregation bias and thus, does not reflect households’ demand properly, yet aggregation bias is rarely considered in empirical demand studies and simply is ignored in most cases. the objective of the present study is to estimate aggregation bias in households’ demand for various types of meats and to evaluate...

In the present paper, we address the problem of finding conditions under which aggregation of individual health status measurements (e.g. QALYs) is meaningful in the sense that there is a universal unit of measurement for health. The problem is studied in a model where different aspects of health take the form of Lancasterian characteristics to be produced by the individuals using commodities o...