OBJECTIVE To evaluate aortic function and its relation to left ventricular diastolic function in patients with hypertension, diabetes, or both, without coronary artery disease. METHODS Study groups were composed of 27 healthy participants and 25 patients with hypertension, 24 with diabetes, and 18 with hypertension and diabetes. Coronary artery disease was excluded in all of the study partici...

This paper deals with studying and modeling static friction coefficient (SFC) and dynamic friction coefficient (DFC) of wheat grain as affected by several treatments. Significance of single effect (SE) and dual interaction effect (DIE) of treatments (moisture content and contact surface) on SFC and, SE, DIE, and triple interaction effect (TIE) of treatments (moisture content, contact surface an...

germination is series of biochemical reactions that depends mainly on temperature and moisture. therefore, seed germination rate of lemon balm (mellissa officinalis l.) were evaluated in temperatures of 20, 23, 25,27, 30 and 32ºc and water potentials of 0, -0.2, -0.4, -0.6 and -0.8mpa. according to the results, germination temperature window was not very wide in a way that germination temperatu...

this paper describes 3d-qsar analysis and biological evaluation of 1,5-benzodiazepine analogues. benzodiazepine nucleus with its simple structure gives a good opportunity for further modification regarding an increase of its antimicrobial activity. we synthesized a series of benzodiazepine analogues from condensation of various chalcones and halo substituted o-phenelynene diamines. all compound...

E. L. Barbier, S. Valable, C. Lucatelli, I. Troprès, C. Segebarth, C. Rémy Inserm, U594, Grenoble, F-38043, France, Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France, Inserm, IFR1, Grenoble, F-38043, France Introduction The vessel size index (VSI) provides information on the distribution of vessel radii in a voxel (1). Experimentally, it can be estimated by quantifying the changes ∆R2 and ∆R2 induced ...

This study developed a retrieval algorithm for reflected shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere (RSR). This algorithm is based on Himawari-8/AHI (Advanced Himawari Imager) whose sensor characteristics and observation area are similar to the next-generation Geostationary Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite/Advanced Meteorological Imager (GK-2A/AMI). This algorithm converts the radiance into ...

in this paper, productivity of and demand for water throughout eqlid’s sugar beet growers in 1385 were investigated. to address the objective 100 growers were selected using two-stage cluster sampling, then required dataset was obtained by interviewing and completing questionnaire. in order to study factors affecting sugar beet production, cobb-douglas production function was applied. based on ...