As XML is about to become the standard format for structured documents, there is an increasing need for appropriate information retrieval (IR) methods. Since classical IR methods were developed for unstructured documents only, the logical markup of XML documents poses new challenges. Since XML supports logical markup of texts both at the macro level (structuring markup for chapter, section, par...

The Internet (and networks overall) are currently the core media for data and knowledge exchange. XML is currently the most popular standardization for Web document representation and is rapidly becoming a standard for data representation and exchange over the Internet. One of the main issues is XML documents and in particular, storage and accessing. Among data management issues, storage and se...

Adsorption cooling technologies driven by low-grade thermal or solar power are used as an energy-efficient alternative to conventional refrigeration and air conditioning systems. Explicit understanding of the adsorption cycles requires precise determination performance parameters, replication experimental data, rigorous study heat transformation method. Hence, optimum isotherms model must be id...

BACKGROUND Although some studies have been conducted on violence against women, but all these studies were conducted in the general population and not the wives of addicts. This study was aimed to compare the violence against women with and without an addicted spouse. METHODS This comparative study was conducted on 200 married women in Kashan, Iran. 100 cases were females with addicted spouse...

This paper investigates one aspect of the robustness of Fisher's linear discriminant function-robustness against contamination in the initial samples. Asymptotic results are derived for normal location contamination and for normal scale contamination with the contaminating covariance matrix a multiple of the uncontaminated population covariance matrix. It is shown that when the prior probabilit...

Background: Although some studies have been conducted on violence against women, but all these studies were conducted in the general population and not the wives of addicts. This study was aimed to compare the violence against women with and without an addicted spouse. Methods: This comparative study was conducted on 200 married women in Kashan, Iran. 100 cases were females with addicted spouse...

Background Gonarthrosis is a benign knee condition, but it can become disabling if poorly managed. The evaluation of the functional impact gonarthrosis based on Lequesne’s algofunctional index [1], thus judging effectiveness or failure proposed treatment. Water gymnastics increasingly prescribed in management this pathology. Objectives main aim our work was to compare efficacy aquatic with conv...

The current study investigated whether sardine protein mitigates the adverse effects of fructose on plasma glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and oxidative stress in rats. Rats were fed casein (C) or sardine protein (S) with or without high-fructose (HF) for 2 months. Plasma glucose, insulin, GLP-1, lipid and protein oxidation and antioxidant enzymes were assayed. HF rats developed obesity, hyperg...

Carotenoids in fruits and vegetables are excellent sources for antioxidants and vitamin A. A reversed-phase HPLC method has been developed in our laboratory for separation and extraction of the carotenoids in crude and saponified extracts from ‘Ataulfo’ mango fruit grown in México. Fruit were obtained from local markets at adequate stage of ripening and evaluated for objective color, soluble so...

Recent studies suggest a crucial role played by mitochondria in the pathogenesis of ischemia-reperfusion injury. This study was conducted to clarify the role of trimetazidine, a cellular antiischemic agent, on mitochondria isolated from rat liver subjected to 120-min normothermic ischemia followed by 30-min reperfusion. Rats were divided into groups, pretreated with different doses of trimetazi...