Gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs) improve the diagnostic capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging. Although initially believed to be without major adverse effects, GBCA use in patients with severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) was demonstrated cause nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). Restrictive policies CKD and selective GBCAs that bind free gadolinium more strongly have resulted vir...

By affecting work, resources, organizations, and people's lives, automation processes can be disruptive of the basic structure society. Nonetheless, we may benefit from this disruption, as offer opportunities to make social cooperation fairer. Just philosophers have addressed problem which values principles should regulate distribution goods, so consider guiding technological change with regard...

how to cite this article: firoozeh sajedi f, ahmadi doulabi m, vameghi r, mazaheri ma, akbarzadeh baghban ar. relationship of mothers’ psychological status with development of kindergarten children. iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):61-72.   abstract objective given the importance of children’s development and the role of psychological status of mothers in this regard, this study investig...

In this paper, we solve a type of shortest queue problem, which is related to multibeam satellite systems. We assume that the packet interarrival times are independently distributed according to an arbitrary distribution function, that the service times are Markovian with possibly di erent service rates, that each of the servers has its own bu er for packet waiting, and that jockeying among bu ...

The Ninth Annual AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference was held in Philadelphia in November 7–10, 2010. Its thematic focus was "Prevention: From Basic Science to Public Health Benefit." Telomere plasticity, the microenvironment, inflammation, transformation to the metastatic phenotype, and pathways to obesity were highlighted as important elements of carcinogenesis amenable to...

extended abstract 1. introduction abbasid period can be regarded as an epoch in which poetry and eulogy in persia reached maturity, i.e., in which poetry has become a means of praise and admiration (dayf, 2006, p. 565). the kings of this dynasty gathered a group of flattered eulogists and used them for political announcements (alebadi, 2006, p. 13), by allocating precious gifts of war booty to ...