To improve the quality of starting torque and suspension force, a composite cage rotor bearingless induction motor (CCR-BIM) is designed, which adopts structure that combines an inner outer rotor. First, overall CCR-BIM specially designed analyzed for principle, mathematical model force deduced. Second, initial structural parameters are determined, qualities, such as quality, compared between p...

OBJECTIVE Although it is accepted that elevated plasma homocysteine (tHcy) levels occur in end-stage renal disease and type 2 diabetes, the changes with milder renal dysfunction (e.g., microalbuminuria) are less clearly established. This study explores the relationship among tHcy, creatinine clearance (Ccr), and albumin excretion rate (AER) in a population with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIG...

Recently, in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology, there are two type of efficiency measurement; radial and non-radial measure represented by the CharnesCooper-Rhodes (CCR) and the slack-based measure (SBM) model respectively. There are two characteristics to the target in oriented CCR model; the input minimization (output maximization) plus any further reduction (expansion) indicated by...

introduction: due to increased costs of health sector, much effort has been done to compare the performance of hospitals and measure their efficiency in recent years. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative efficiency of public and private hospitals in qom during 2007 using data envelopment analysis (dea) approach. methods: this was an applied and analytic study. the study popula...

1) Lines 6-8: How does the ratio of U-P/24h-CCr reflect the phosphate loss for each nephron? A proof that 24h-CCr is a marker for nephron number is missing. Why is it important to normalize to creatinine clearance? In animal experience, renal biopsy and magnetic resonance imaging were used to estimate glomerular number. Fulladosa et al reported that a positive correlation between GFR and Glomer...

BACKGROUND Whether phosphate itself has nephrotoxicity in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is controversial, although phosphate excretion into urine may cause tubular damage in rat models. To evaluate actual phosphate load on each nephron, we examined the association between 24-h urinary phosphorus excretion per creatinine clearance (24-h U-P/CCr), a newly proposed index that is a sur...

The most important predictor in a regression model may be a suppressor variable which does not predict the outcome variable directly but improves the overall prediction by enhancing the effects of other predictors in the model. The most important gene in a 9gene model for early detection of prostate cancer is the gene SP1, whose mean is not significantly different between cancer and medically d...

PURPOSE To determine the suppressive effects of antibodies (Abs) against CC-chemokine receptor (CCR)-1 and CCR-3 on eosinophil chemotaxis induced by culture supernatant from corneal keratocytes and by tears from severely allergic patients with corneal ulcer. METHODS Primary cultures of human corneal keratocytes were incubated with interleukin (IL)-4 (33.3 ng/mL) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF...