The present study demonstrated genetic analysis of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) in a familial Graves' disease linked to autoimmune mechanism. The proband was a 17 year-old female. At 15 years, Graves' disease was diagnosed with serum TSH was <0.015 IU/ml; free T(3), 13.6 pg/ml; free T(4), 4.51 ng/dl; and TSH receptor antibody (TRAb), 94.1%. She had two brothers (19 and 13 years-old), who manif...

Abstract In this paper an algebraic substructuring preconditioner is considered for nonconforming nite element approximations of second order elliptic problems in D domains with diagonal anisotropic di usion tensor Using a block Gauss elimination and a substructuring idea part of the unknowns is eliminated and the Schur complement obtained is preconditioned by a spectrally equivalent matrix Whe...

Now that we know that every lattice admits a basis, a next fundamental question is: given linearly independent vectors b1, . . . , bn ∈ L how can we tell if they form a basis of L? As we have seen previously, not every set of n linearly vectors in Zn is a basis of Zn. One possible answer is given in the following lemma. It says that the basic parallelepiped generated by the vectors should not c...

Interval numerical methods for initial value problems (IVPs) for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) compute bounds that contain the solution of an IVP for an ODE. This paper develops and studies an interval method for computing bounds on the solution of a linear ODE. Our method is based on enclosing the terms in the formula for the closed form solution using Taylor series and various interv...

We evaluated the determination of serum G-CSF in the diagnosis of granulocytopenia due to methimazole (MMI) in 54 patients with Graves' disease, while they were being treated with MMI, by way of measuring WBC counts and serum levels of G-CSF, thyroid hormones, IgE, and interleukin-2. Serum TSH was measured by immunoradiometric assay, serum G-CSF was done by enzyme immunoassay, thyroid hormones ...

Instantaneous kinematics and singularity analysis of a class of three-legged, 6-DOF parallel manipulators are addressed in this paper. A generic method of derivation of reciprocal screw and consequently, the instantaneous kinematics model is presented. The advantage of this formulation is that the instantaneous kinematics model possesses well-defined geometric meaning and algebraic structure. S...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Graves' disease has been associated with an increased psychiatric morbidity. It is unclarified whether this relates to Graves' disease or chronic disease per se. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms in patients with Graves' disease compared to patients with another chronic thyroid disease, nodular goitre, and to investig...

This paper deals with the problem of packing convex polytopes into a parallelepiped of minimal height. It is assumed that the polytopes are oriented, i. e. rotations are not permitted. A mathematical model of the problem is developed and peculiarities of them are addressed. Based on these peculiarities a method to compute local optimal solutions is constructed. Both an approximate and an exact ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We developed a novel method named Gray-matter Volume Estimate Score (GRAVES), measuring early ischemic changes on Computed Tomography (CT) semi-automatically by computer software. This study aimed to compare GRAVES and Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) with regards to outcome prediction and inter-rater agreement. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort stu...

-Land use classification is an important part of many remote-sensing applications. A lot of research has gone into the application of classifiers to remote-sensing images. Multi-spectral satellite imagery is an economical, precise and appropriate method of obtaining information on land use and land cover. In this paper, we have proposed an efficient technique for classifying the multispectral s...