conclusions most patients are referred for restaging and demonstrate evidence of regional or distant metastasis with significant value for further treatment planning. providing insurance coverage and familiarizing referring physicians about appropriate indications of this relatively new diagnostic modality will be to the best interest of head and neck cancer patients in long term. methods we re...

re-vegetation of bare soil is believed to increase, or at least maintain the organic matter levels of soil. the aim of this study was to investigate the soil characteristics changes, nutrient pool sizes and their availability under mid canopy, and canopy gap positions of saltbush in an area re-vegetated with atriplex lentiformis. some of the physical and chemical soil characteristics (the parti...

abstract background: the main goals in treating burns are to accelerate tissue renovation and prevent infection. topical antibiotics are used in the treatment of burns, but they can cause side effects. recently, a traditional ointment (olea) has been used in iran in the treatment of burns. this study examines the effect of topical honey ointment in healing of burn patients. materials and method...

In an interactive functional programming environment with a Milner-style polymorphic type system (Milner 1978), a modification to one definition may imply changes in the types of other definitions. A polymorphic typechecker must carry out some re-typechecking to determine all of these changes. This paper presents a new typechecking algorithm which performs fine-grained re-typechecking based on ...